Pool vs. Slop — What's the Difference?

A small body of still water.

Spilled or splashed liquid.

An accumulation of standing liquid; a puddle

Soft mud or slush.

A deep or still place in a stream.

Unappetizing watery food or soup.

A swimming pool.

Often slops Waste food used to feed pigs or other animals; swill.

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

Often slops Mash remaining after alcohol distillation.

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.

Often slops Human excrement.

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

Repulsively effusive writing or speech; drivel.

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

Slops Articles of clothing and bedding issued or sold to sailors.

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

Slops Short full trousers worn in the 16th century.

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

A loose outer garment, such as a smock or overalls.

The persons or parties participating in such a fund.

Slops Chiefly British Cheap, ready-made garments.

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

To be spilled or splashed

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

To spill over; overflow.

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

To walk heavily or messily in or as if in mud; plod

To form pools or a pool

To express oneself effusively; gush.

To accumulate in a body part

To spill (liquid).

To put into a pool, as for common use

To spill liquid on.

To join or form a pool.

To serve unappetizingly or clumsily; dish out

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.

To feed slops to (animals)

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

(obsolete) A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.

Ellipsis of swimming pool

A rubber thong sandal.

A supply of resources.

(in the plural) See slops.

A set of resources that are kept ready to use.

(uncountable) Semi-solid like substance; goo, paste, mud, pulp.

A small amount of liquid on a surface.

Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.

A localized glow of light.

Inferior, weak drink or semi-liquid food.

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.

Domestic liquid waste; household wastewater.

(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.

Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown about, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.

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.

(dated) Human urine or excrement.

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

A policeman.

Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.

(transitive) To spill or dump liquid, especially over the edge of a container when it moves.

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.

(transitive) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.

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.

(transitive) In the game of pool or snooker to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.

A set of players in quadrille etc.

(transitive) To feed pigs.

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

(intransitive) To make one's way through soggy terrain.

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

Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.

To form a pool.

Mean and weak drink or liquid food; - usually in the plural.

(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.

Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc.

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

Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock.

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.

A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural.

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

Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.

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.

To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.

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.

To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.

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.

To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; - often with over.

Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.

Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk

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.

Cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container;

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

Walk through mud or mire;

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

Ladle clumsily;

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.

Feed pigs

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