1 a number of people or a quantity of a particular thing, such as money, collected together for shared use by several people or organizations: --
2 in some card games, an amount of money that is collected from all the players and received by the player who wins the game --
3 a game in which two people use cues (= long, thin poles) to hit 16 coloured balls into six holes around the edge of a large table covered in soft cloth: --
4 to collect something such as money in order for it to be used by several different people or groups: --
5 a small area of usually still water, or a small amount of liquid: --
The faecal samples from each day and hamster were individually pooled and weighed.
The 10 swabs were tested both individually and as one pooled sample.
Because data were pooled over several years of observation, we specified random-effects models that allow for the non-independence of individual observations across time.
Outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis can be prolonged, involve multiple pools and be difficult to control.
In the present study, when infrapopulations were pooled as temporal samples, significant differences in allele frequencies were detected.
Five spatially-distinct samples from each food bin were pooled for analysis.
Males and females were pooled for the discordant twin analyses.
The plasma pools were formed in 1999 and 2000, during a low incidence period.