Pool vs. Group — What's the Difference?

A small body of still water.

An assemblage of persons or objects gathered or located together; an aggregation

An accumulation of standing liquid; a puddle

A set of two or more figures that make up a unit or design, as in sculpture.

A deep or still place in a stream.

A number of individuals or things considered or classed together because of similarities

A swimming pool.

(Linguistics) A category of related languages that is less inclusive than a family.

An underground accumulation of petroleum or gas in porous sedimentary rock.

A military unit consisting of two or more battalions and a headquarters.

A game of chance, resembling a lottery, in which the contestants put staked money into a common fund that is later paid to the winner.

A unit of two or more squadrons in the US Air Force, smaller than a wing.

A fund containing all the money bet in a game of chance or on the outcome of an event.

Two or more atoms behaving or regarded as behaving as a single chemical unit.

A supply, as of vehicles or workers, available for use by a group.

A column in the periodic table of the elements.

A group of journalists who cover an event and then by agreement share their reports with participating news media

(Geology) A stratigraphic unit, especially a unit consisting of two or more formations deposited during a single geologic era.

A mutual fund established by a group of stockholders for speculating in or manipulating prices of securities.

(Mathematics) A set, together with a binary associative operation, such that the set is closed under the operation, the set contains an identity element for the operation, and each element of the set has an inverse element with respect to the operation. The integers form a group under the operation of ordinary addition.

The persons or parties participating in such a fund.

Of, relating to, constituting, or being a member of a group

A grouping of assets, such as mortgages, that serves as a basis for the issuing of securities.

To place or arrange in a group

An agreement between competing business concerns to establish controls over production, market, and prices for common profit.

To belong to or form a group

Any of several games played on a six-pocket billiards table usually with 15 object balls and a cue ball. Also called pocket billiards.

A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

To form pools or a pool

(group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

To accumulate in a body part

An effective divisor on a curve.

To put into a pool, as for common use

A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

To join or form a pool.

(astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.

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.

(chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.

(chemistry) A functional group.

Ellipsis of swimming pool

(sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.

A supply of resources.

(military) An air force formation.

A set of resources that are kept ready to use.

(geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.

A small amount of liquid on a surface.

(computing) A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.

A localized glow of light.

An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.

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.

(music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.

(sport) 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.

(sports) 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.

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.

(business) A commercial organization.

(fencing) A group of fencers taking part in a competition.

(transitive) To put together to form a group.

Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.

(intransitive) To come together to form a group.

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.

A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.

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.

An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.

A set of players in quadrille etc.

A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.

(rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.

A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; - sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.

(legal) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.

To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.

To form a pool.

Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

(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.

(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

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

A set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse

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; as, the pools of Solomon.

Arrange into a group or groups;

A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.

Form a group or group together

The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.

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; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.

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.

Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.

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; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool.

A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.

An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.

To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic.

To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.

An excavation that is (usually) filled with water

A small lake;

An organization of people or resources that can be shared;

An association of companies for some definite purpose

Any communal combination of funds;

A small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid;

The combined stakes of the betters

Something resembling a pool of liquid;

Any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets

Combine into a common fund;

Join or form a pool of people