different between combine vs pool

English

Etymology

From Middle French combiner, from Late Latin comb?n?re, present active infinitive of comb?n? (“unite, yoke together”), from Latin con- (“together”) + b?n? (“two by two”).

Pronunciation

• Verb
• enPR: k?m-b?n', IPA^(key): /k?m?ba?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

• Noun
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?m.ba?n/
• (US) enPR: käm'b?n, IPA^(key): /?k?m.ba?n/
• Rhymes: -?mba?n

Verb

combine (third-person singular simple present combines, present participle combining, simple past and past participle combined)

1. (transitive) To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.

2. (transitive) To have two or more things or properties that function together.

3. (intransitive) To come together; to unite.
4. (card games) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.
5. (obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.

Synonyms

• See synonyms at Thesaurus:coalesce.

Antonyms

• divide
• separate
• disunite

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

combine (plural combines)

1. A combine harvester
   • 1976, The Wurzels, I Am A Cider Drinker

     When those combine wheels stops turnin'
     And the hard days work is done
     Theres a pub around the corner
     It's the place we 'ave our fun

2. A combination
   1. Especially, a joint enterprise of whatever legal form for a purpose of business or in any way promoting the interests of the participants, sometimes with monopolistic intentions.

   2. An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former Soviet bloc.

      Synonym: kombinat

   3. (art) An artwork falling between painting and sculpture, having objects embedded into a painted surface.
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Translations

Anagrams

• becomin'

Asturian

Verb

combine

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of combinar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.bin/

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of combinaison.

Noun

combine f (plural combines)

1. (colloquial) trick, scheme

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

combine

1. inflection of combiner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• combien

Further reading

• “combine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Verb

combine

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of combinar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of combinar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of combinar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of combinar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kom?bine]

Verb

combine

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of combina
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of combina

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kom?bine/, [kõm?bi.ne]

Verb

combine

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of combinar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of combinar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of combinar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of combinar.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pu?l/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /pul/, [p?u?], [p?u??]
• Rhymes: -u?l
• Homophone: Poole

Etymology 1

From Middle English pool, pole, pol, from Old English p?l (“pool”), from Proto-Germanic *p?laz (“pool, pond”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?los (“bog, marsh”). Cognate with Scots puil (“pool”), Saterland Frisian Pol (“pool”), West Frisian poel (“pool”), Dutch poel (“pool”), Low German Pohl, Pul (“pool”), German Pfuhl (“quagmire, mudhole”), Danish pøl (“puddle”), Swedish pöl (“puddle, pool”), Icelandic pollur (“puddle”), Lithuanian bala (“bog, marsh, swamp, pool”), Latvian bala (“a muddly, treeless depression”), Russian ??????? (bolóto, “swamp, bog, marsh”).

Noun

pool (plural pools)

1. A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water.

   the pools of Solomon
2. A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
3. Ellipsis of swimming pool
4. A supply of resources.
5. (by extension, computing) A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
6. A small amount of liquid on a surface.

   a pool of blood

7. A localized glow of light.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (p?ru)
• ? Swedish: pool c

Translations

Verb

pool (third-person singular simple present pools, present participle pooling, simple past and past participle pooled)

1. (intransitive, of a liquid) To form a pool.

Etymology 2

From French poule (“collective stakes in a game”). The OED suggests that this may be a transferred use of poule (“hen”), which has been explained anecdotally as deriving from an old informal betting game in France - 'jeu de poule' - Game of Chicken (or Hen, literally) in which poule became synonymous with the combined money pot claimed by the winner.

Noun

pool (plural pools)

1. (games, uncountable) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game.
3. (sports) A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour, 7 of another, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Book of Snobs Chapter 23

     He plays pool at the billiard-houses, and may be seen engaged at cards and dominoes of forenoons.

4. In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
5. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
6. The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a share; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
8. A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed.

   The pool took all the wheat offered below the limit.

   He put $10,000 into the pool.

9. A set of players in quadrille etc.
10. (rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
11. (law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pool (third-person singular simple present pools, present participle pooling, simple past and past participle pooled)

1. (transitive) To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of.
   • 1920, Frank L. Packard, The White Moll Chapter 4

     “She must be exceedingly clever to have beaten the police the way she has for the last few years; and—er—I worship at the shrine of cleverness—especially if it be a woman’s. The idea struck me last night that if she and I should—er—pool our resources, we should not have to complain of the reward.”
     “Oh, so youse wants to work wid her, eh?” sniffed Rhoda Gray. “So dat’s it, is it?”

   • 27 February 2010, Barack Obama, Presidential Weekly Address - Time for Us to Act

     Many on both sides agreed that we should give small businesses and individuals the ability to participate in a new insurance marketplace – which members of Congress would also use – that would allow them to pool their purchasing power and get a better deal from insurance companies.

2. (intransitive) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.

Translations

Anagrams

• Loop, OOPL, Polo, loop, polo

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Latin polus, which itself is from Ancient Greek ????? (pólos, “axis”). Cognate with English pole.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pool

Noun

pool c (plural polen, diminutive pooltje n)

1. magnetic pole (especially of the Earth and other celestial bodies)
2. electrical pole (e.g. of a battery)
3. (figuratively) an opposing side of a principle or a doctrine

Derived terms

• noordpool, Noordpool
• zuidpool, Zuidpool

Etymology 2

From English pool.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pool

Noun

pool m (plural pools, diminutive pooltje n)

1. a gambling venture such as a football pool
2. the stake involved in such a venture
3. an arrangement where people pool in money to share one resource such as a carpool
4. (sports) pool

Derived terms

• banenpool
• arbeidspool

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch pool, from Old French poil, from Latin pilus (“hair”). Cognate with English pile

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pool

Noun

pool c (plural polen, diminutive pooltje n)

1. the pile (upstanding usually fine hair) on certain fabrics, velvet or carpeting

Anagrams

• loop

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *pooli, from Proto-Uralic *pälä. Cognates include Finnish puoli (“half, side”), Mansi ???? (p?l, “half, side”), Hungarian fél (“half”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?o?l/

Noun

pool (genitive poole, partitive poolt)

1. half
2. side

Inflection

The nonstandard plural partitive poolesid is somewhat common in colloquial use.

Postposition

pool

1. at, to, towards

Inflection

allative: poole

adessive: pool

ablative: poolt

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?o?l?/

Noun

pool (genitive pooli, partitive pooli)

1. bobbin, coil

Inflection

See also

• mähis

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pooli, from Proto-Uralic *pälä. Cognates with Finnish puoli and Estonian pool.

Noun

pool (genitive poolen, partitive poolt)

1. half

Karao

Noun

pool

1. large fire (which causes damage)

Sambali

Noun

pool

1. fire

Spanish

Noun

pool m (plural pooles)

1. pool (sport)

Swedish

Etymology

Since 1968; from English pool, related to Swedish pöl (“small water pool, usually on the road when it's raining”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu?l/
• Homophone: pol
• Rhymes: -u?l

Noun

pool c

1. a swimming pool

Declension

Related terms

• bubbelpool

Anagrams

• loop
• polo

Yucatec Maya

Noun

pool m (plural pooles)

1. head