Pool

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pool Pool Pool may refer to: 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 Water • Plunge pool, small, deep body of water • The River Pool, river in England, tributary to the River Ravensbourne • Reflecting pool, shallow pool of water designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings: • Capitol Reflection Pool, westernmost element of the United States Capitol Building Grounds, in Washington, D.C. • Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the largest of the reflecting pools in Washington, D.C. • Stream pool, a quiet slow moving portion of a stream • Swimming pool, artificially enclosed body of water intended for swimming • Tide pool, rocky pools on ocean shores that remain filled with seawater when the tide goes out Geography • Pool, Cornwall, in England • Pool-in-Wharfedale, in West Yorkshire, England • Pool Region, in the Republic of the Congo • Pool, West Virginia, in the United States Persons • Albert-Jan Pool (b. 1960), Dutch type designer • Ithiel de Sola Pool (1917–1984), pioneer in the development of social science • John Pool (1826–1884), American Senator from North Carolina • Walter F. Pool (1850–1883), American Congressman from North Carolina • Pool Group, a trio of inter-war experimental artists and film-makers Sports, games and gambling • Betting pool, form of pool betting where gamblers pay a fixed price into a pool • Dead pool, betting pool on the date of death of celebrities • Hockey pool, simplified version of fantasy hockey • Football pools, football betting pool • Footy pool, Australian-rules football pool • Pool betting, betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed • Pocket billiards, family of games played on a pocket billiards table • Pool checkers, variant of checkers (draughts) • Pool play, round robin stage of many sporting championships • Pool (poker), money wagered during a single hand of poker • Singapore Pools, Singapore’s sole legal lottery • Billiards, also known as pool General • Gene pool, complete set of unique alleles in a species or population • The Pool (film), a 2007 drama film • Pool-type reactor, nuclear reactor that has a core immersed in an open pool of water • Pooling (resource management), grouping together of resources or effort • Secretarial pool, group of secretaries available to assist executives • Press pool, group of news gathering organizations pooling their resources • Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, a defunct agricultural company 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • The Pool (play), a 2006 play • The Pool (2009 film), a 2009 film adaptation of the play Pool See also • Poole (disambiguation) • Poel (disambiguation page) • Poul (disambiguation page) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool" Categories: Disambiguation pages This page was last modified on 20 May 2009, at 18:43 (UTC). All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) taxdeductible nonprofit charity. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers 2