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A planted garden pool at Mission San Juan Capistrano

• It is any of several games similar to billiards, distinguished by using a table that has one pocket at each corner and one in the middle of each of the two longer sides. See Eight ball, or the note about the UK version.
• It is a small body of water, often man-made. See swimming pool.
• A pool can be a group of businesses or individuals who unite to further their interests, such as the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool .
• A form of gambling in which a group collectively bets on an outcome of a sports team or other happening. This sense is also called a kitty.
  • In American football: A football pool is much like a casino game in which the winner is determined by a wheel with numbered frets, each corresponding to a square in the payoff matrix.
  • The total money wagered on a specific type of bet in a parimutuel wagering operation.
  • It is sometimes another word for a poker pot.
• A pool is also a container for money to which many people contribute, and also a container for messages in an anonymous remailer.
• In computer science, a memory pool is an area of storage reserved to be allocated in a special, regular way.
• The PoolPool is a region of the Republic of the Congo in the southeastern part of the country. It borders the regions of Bouenza, Lekoumou, and Plateaux, and internationally, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It also surrounds the commune district of the nati region of the Republic of the CongoThe Republic of the Congo also known as Middle Congo Congo-Brazzaville and Congo (but not to be confused with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire, which was also at one time known as the Republic of the Congo , is a former French colony o (named for the former " Stanley Pool" of the Congo), is currently the home of a low-level insurgency led by " Pasteur Ntumi ."