Whirlpool vs. Pool — What's the Difference?

A whirlpool is a body of rotating water produced by opposing currents or a current running into an obstacle. Small whirlpools form when a bath or a sink is draining.

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

A rapidly rotating current of water; a vortex.

Combine into a common fund;

Something, such as a situation, that is confusing or tumultuous and is easy to be drawn into or difficult to get out of

Join or form a pool of people

A bathtub or pool having jets of warm water that can be directed toward a body part as for therapeutic purposes.

A small body of still water.

A swirling body of water.

An accumulation of standing liquid; a puddle

A hot tub, jacuzzi.

A deep or still place in a stream.

Turmoil, or agitated excitement.

A swimming pool.

(intransitive) To spin or swirl like the water in a whirlpool.

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

An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like.

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 sea monster of the whale kind.

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

A powerful circular current of water (usually the resulting of conflicting tides)

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

Flow in a circular current, of liquids

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

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

The persons or parties participating in such a fund.

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

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

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 form pools or a pool

To accumulate in a body part

To put into a pool, as for common use

To join or form a pool.

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.

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

Ellipsis of swimming pool

A supply of resources.

A set of resources that are kept ready to use.

A small amount of liquid on a surface.

A localized glow of light.

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.

(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.

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.

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

Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.

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 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.

A set of players in quadrille etc.

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

(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 pool.

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

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 small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.

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;