English words for 'Alternative form of pool hall.'
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noun
- A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.
- (West Yorkshire) A splinter caught in the skin.
- A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
- (computing) A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.
- (aviation) One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.
- a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
verb
noun
- (billiards) A side wall of a pool table.
- (video games) A shoulder button on a gamepad.
- (slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) A woman's posterior, particularly one that is considered full and desirable.
- (bowling) Synonym of gutter guard (“rail to prevent a ball from rolling into the gutter”).
- (broadcasting) A short ditty or jingle used to separate a show from the advertisements.
- (music) An extra musician (not notated in the score) who assists the principal French horn by playing less-exposed passages, so that the principal can save their 'lip' for difficult solos. Also applied to other sections of the orchestra.
- Someone or something that bumps.
- A cylindrical object used (as a substitute for birds) to train dogs to retrieve.
- (colloquial, now chiefly attributive) Anything large or successful.
- (horse racing) In National Hunt racing, a flat race for horses that have not yet competed either in flat racing or over obstacles.
- Any mechanical device used to absorb an impact, soften a collision, or protect against impact.
- (cricket) A bouncer.
- (pinball) An object on a playfield that applies force to the pinball when hit, often giving a minor increase in score.
- (Australia, slang) A cigarette butt.
- (automotive) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender.
- a glass filled to the brim (especially as a toast)
- a mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage
adj
noun
- A small enclosure at a swimming pool etc. used to provide personal privacy when changing.
- (UK, Australia) A small enclosure in a public toilet for individual use.
- A small separate part or one of the compartments of a room, especially in a work environment.
- small area set off by walls for special use
- small individual study area in a library
- small room in which a monk or nun lives
noun
- a recreation room in an institution
- sells food and personal items to personnel at an institution or school or camp etc.
- a restaurant outside; often for soldiers or policemen
- a flask for carrying water; used by soldiers or travelers
- restaurant in a factory; where workers can eat
- A small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work.
- (Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Australia, Philippines) A cafeteria in a school or place of work.
- A military mess kit.
- A box with compartments for storing eating utensils, silverware etc.
- A temporary or mobile café used in an emergency or on a film location etc.
- Goods purchased from a prison canteen.
- A water bottle, flask, or other vessel, typically used by a soldier or camper as a bottle for carrying water or liquor for drink.
noun
noun
- An indoor pool used for baptism by immersion.
- (Christianity) A designated space within a church, or a separate room or building associated with a church, where a baptismal font is located, and consequently, where the sacrament of Christian baptism (via aspersion or affusion) is performed.
- bowl for baptismal water
noun
- facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport
- education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
- part of a meal served at one time
- a line or route along which something travels or moves
- general line of orientation
- a mode of action
- a connected series of events or actions or developments
- (construction) a layer of masonry
- a body of students who are taught together
- (cooking) A stage of a meal.
- (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
- A racecourse.
- (roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
- A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
- (textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
- The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
- A normal or customary sequence.
- (golf) A golf course.
- The itinerary of a race.
- The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
- (India, historical) The drive usually frequented by Europeans at an Indian station.
- A path that something or someone moves along.
- (UK, Ireland, Philippines) an educational programme at a college or university leading to an academic degree or vocational qualification.
- (especially in medicine) A treatment plan.
- (education) A learning programme
- a series of lectures or lessons in a particular subject
- (nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
- (navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
- Any ordered process or sequence of steps.
- A sequence of events.
- (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
- (music) One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela): if multiple, then closely spaced, tuned in unison or octaves and intended to be played together.
- (sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
adv
verb
- move along, of liquids
- move swiftly through or over
- hunt with hounds
- (transitive) To run through or over.
- To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
- (transitive) To cause to chase after or pursue game.
- (transitive) To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
noun
- Ellipsis of swimming pool.
- A localized glow of light.
- A small amount of liquid on a surface.
- Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
- A number of people when considered as a resource.
- (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.
- (by extension) Any group of like things.
- (rugby union) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
- (law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
- (rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
- (fencing) A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
- A set of players in quadrille etc.
- Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
- A supply of resources.
- 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.
- (sports) A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour or solids, 7 of another color or stripes, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
- (by extension, computing) A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
- something resembling a pool of liquid
- any communal combination of funds
- a small lake
- the combined stakes of the betters
- an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
- a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
- an association of companies for some definite purpose
- an organization of people or resources that can be shared
- any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets
verb
- (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.
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To form a pool.
- (intransitive) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
- join or form a pool of people
- combine into a common fund
noun
- A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.
- (West Yorkshire) A splinter caught in the skin.
- A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
- (computing) A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.
- (aviation) One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.
- a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
verb
noun
- (billiards) A side wall of a pool table.
- (video games) A shoulder button on a gamepad.
- (slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) A woman's posterior, particularly one that is considered full and desirable.
- (bowling) Synonym of gutter guard (“rail to prevent a ball from rolling into the gutter”).
- (broadcasting) A short ditty or jingle used to separate a show from the advertisements.
- (music) An extra musician (not notated in the score) who assists the principal French horn by playing less-exposed passages, so that the principal can save their 'lip' for difficult solos. Also applied to other sections of the orchestra.
- Someone or something that bumps.
- A cylindrical object used (as a substitute for birds) to train dogs to retrieve.
- (colloquial, now chiefly attributive) Anything large or successful.
- (horse racing) In National Hunt racing, a flat race for horses that have not yet competed either in flat racing or over obstacles.
- Any mechanical device used to absorb an impact, soften a collision, or protect against impact.
- (cricket) A bouncer.
- (pinball) An object on a playfield that applies force to the pinball when hit, often giving a minor increase in score.
- (Australia, slang) A cigarette butt.
- (automotive) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender.
- a glass filled to the brim (especially as a toast)
- a mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage
adj
noun
- A small enclosure at a swimming pool etc. used to provide personal privacy when changing.
- (UK, Australia) A small enclosure in a public toilet for individual use.
- A small separate part or one of the compartments of a room, especially in a work environment.
- small area set off by walls for special use
- small individual study area in a library
- small room in which a monk or nun lives
noun
- a recreation room in an institution
- sells food and personal items to personnel at an institution or school or camp etc.
- a restaurant outside; often for soldiers or policemen
- a flask for carrying water; used by soldiers or travelers
- restaurant in a factory; where workers can eat
- A small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work.
- (Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Australia, Philippines) A cafeteria in a school or place of work.
- A military mess kit.
- A box with compartments for storing eating utensils, silverware etc.
- A temporary or mobile café used in an emergency or on a film location etc.
- Goods purchased from a prison canteen.
- A water bottle, flask, or other vessel, typically used by a soldier or camper as a bottle for carrying water or liquor for drink.
noun
noun
- An indoor pool used for baptism by immersion.
- (Christianity) A designated space within a church, or a separate room or building associated with a church, where a baptismal font is located, and consequently, where the sacrament of Christian baptism (via aspersion or affusion) is performed.
- bowl for baptismal water
noun
- facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport
- education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
- part of a meal served at one time
- a line or route along which something travels or moves
- general line of orientation
- a mode of action
- a connected series of events or actions or developments
- (construction) a layer of masonry
- a body of students who are taught together
- (cooking) A stage of a meal.
- (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
- A racecourse.
- (roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
- A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
- (textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
- The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
- A normal or customary sequence.
- (golf) A golf course.
- The itinerary of a race.
- The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
- (India, historical) The drive usually frequented by Europeans at an Indian station.
- A path that something or someone moves along.
- (UK, Ireland, Philippines) an educational programme at a college or university leading to an academic degree or vocational qualification.
- (especially in medicine) A treatment plan.
- (education) A learning programme
- a series of lectures or lessons in a particular subject
- (nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
- (navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
- Any ordered process or sequence of steps.
- A sequence of events.
- (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
- (music) One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela): if multiple, then closely spaced, tuned in unison or octaves and intended to be played together.
- (sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
adv
verb
- move along, of liquids
- move swiftly through or over
- hunt with hounds
- (transitive) To run through or over.
- To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
- (transitive) To cause to chase after or pursue game.
- (transitive) To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
noun
- Ellipsis of swimming pool.
- A localized glow of light.
- A small amount of liquid on a surface.
- Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
- A number of people when considered as a resource.
- (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.
- (by extension) Any group of like things.
- (rugby union) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
- (law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
- (rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
- (fencing) A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
- A set of players in quadrille etc.
- Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
- A supply of resources.
- 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.
- (sports) A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour or solids, 7 of another color or stripes, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
- (by extension, computing) A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
- something resembling a pool of liquid
- any communal combination of funds
- a small lake
- the combined stakes of the betters
- an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
- a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
- an association of companies for some definite purpose
- an organization of people or resources that can be shared
- any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets
verb
- (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.
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To form a pool.
- (intransitive) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
- join or form a pool of people
- combine into a common fund