different between collect vs pool

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English collecten, a borrowing from Old French collecter, from Medieval Latin collectare (“to collect money”), from Latin collecta (“a collection of money, in Late Latin a meeting, assemblage, in Medieval Latin a tax, also an assembly for prayer, a prayer”), feminine of collectus, past participle of colligere, conligere (“to gather together, collect, consider, conclude, infer”), from com- (“together”) + legere (“to gather”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??l?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

collect (third-person singular simple present collects, present participle collecting, simple past and past participle collected)

1. (transitive) To gather together; amass.

2. (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.

3. (transitive) To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
4. (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
   • 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Chapter XVII, section 20

     […] which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.

   • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, page 292-3:

     the riot is so great that it is very difficult to collect what is being said.

5. (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.

6. (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.

7. (transitive) To infer; to conclude.

   • Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.

8. (transitive, of a vehicle or driver) To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).

   The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.

Synonyms

• (to gather together): aggregate, gather up; see also Thesaurus:round up
• (to get from someone): receive, secure; see also Thesaurus:receive
• (to accumulate items for a hobby): amound, gather; see also Thesaurus:accumulate
• (to infer, conclude, form a conclusion): assume, construe
• (to collect payments):
• (to come together in a group or mass): group, mass, merge; see also Thesaurus:assemble or Thesaurus:coalesce
• (to collide with): bump into, plough into, run into

Hyponyms

• garbage collect

Translations

Adjective

collect (not comparable)

1. To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.

Translations

Adverb

collect (not comparable)

1. With payment due from the recipient.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin ?r?ti? ad collectam (“prayer towards the congregation”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?l?kt/, /?k?l?kt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?l?kt/

Noun

collect (plural collects) (sometimes capitalized)

1. (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.

Translations

Further reading

• collect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• collect in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• collect at OneLook Dictionary Search

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