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An above-ground pool is an affordable alternative to the traditional built-in pool, and costs a mere fraction in terms of materials and... more »
Pool may refer to:
Pools of water
*Swimming pool, an artificially enclosed body of water intended for swimming
*Reflecting pool, a shallow pool designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings:
*Tide pool, a rocky pool on an ocean shore that remains filled with seawater when the tide goes out
*Plunge pool, a small, deep body of water
*Stream pool, a quiet slow-moving portion of a stream
Sports and gambling
*Pool (cue sports), a group of games played on a pool table
*Pool (poker) or pot, money wagered during a single hand of poker
*Pool play or group stages, the round robin stage of many sporting championships
*Pool betting or parimutuel betting, a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together
**Betting pool, a form of pool betting where gamblers pay a fixed price into a pool
***Football pool, an association football (soccer) betting pool
*Singapore Pools, Singapores sole legal lottery
Geography
*River Pool (London), a river in England, tributary to the River Ravensbourne
*River Pool, Cumbria, a river in Cumbria, England, tributary to the Gilpin
*Pool, Cornwall, in England
*Pool-in-Wharfedale, in West Yorkshire, England
*Pool Department, a division of the Republic of the Congo
*Pool, West Virginia, in the United States
Computing
*Connection pool, cache of database connections maintained by the database
*Object pool, set of initialised programming objects that are kept ready to use
*Memory pool, dynamic memory allocation method
*Memory Pool System, memory management system
*Thread pool pattern, programming method where a number of threads are created to perform a number of tasks
Other uses
*Pool (surname), a surname (and list of people with the surname)
*Pool (album), an album by John Zorn
*The Pool (game), a role-playing game by James V. West
*The Pool (2007 film), a film by Chris Smith
*The Pool (play), a 2006 play read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool
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