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Common wordJLPTN5Freq.FrequencyTop 5,000

プールする · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

swimming pool; pool

The most common meaning: a swimming pool or wading pool.

pool; pocket billiards

Refers to the cue sport, often called ビリヤード in general, but プール specifically means pool.

Used for pooling money, resources, or efforts. Can be used as a suru-verb (プールする).

pool; price ring

Economics term: a cartel or agreement to fix prices. Rare outside technical contexts.

〈場ば所しょ〉にプールがあるthere is a pool at (a place)
このホテルには屋おく外がいプールがある。
This hotel has an outdoor pool.
〈物もの〉をプールするto pool (funds, resources, etc.)
会かい社しゃは将しょう来らいのために資し金きんをプールしている。
The company is pooling funds for the future.
プールをするto play (a game of) pool
友とも達だちとバーでプールをした。
I played pool with a friend at a bar.
プールで泳およぐto swim in a/the pool
夏なつ休やすみは毎まい日にちプールで泳およいだ。
During summer vacation I swam in the pool every day.
プールに入はいるto get into the pool
水みずが冷つめたくてなかなかプールに入はいれなかった。
The water was so cold I couldn't bring myself to get into the pool.

スイミングプール sense 1
スイミングプール specifically means a swimming pool, while プール can also refer to a billiards pool, pooling resources, or a price cartel.
ビリヤード sense 2
ビリヤード is the general term for billiards/cue sports, while プール refers specifically to the pocket-billiards game called pool.
カルテル sense 4
カルテル is the common everyday term for a price-fixing cartel, while プール is a more technical economics term for the same kind of price-ring agreement.

ブール
ブール (a round loaf of bread) and プール (a swimming pool) differ only by a voicing mark but are completely unrelated words.

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Borrowed from English 'pool', with the same range of meanings.