Curiosity

Curiosity is one of those words which harbors a sense of mystery. In many instances it is because of curiosity that we continue to grow and progress in many areas of technology, intelligence, medicine, science and so forth.


Curiosity: the desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness.

Curiosity: a strange, curious,  or interesting quality.

Curiosity:  The Curiosity rover is a nuclear-powered Mars rover that is part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission by the United States. Curiosity carries the most advanced payload of scientific equipment ever used on the surface of Mars. The MSL spacecraft—with its payload Curiosity—was launched on November 26, 2011 and successfully landed on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater on August 6, 2012.

CURIOSITY

Funnel

Depending how you use it funnel is one of those words that can either be an action or an object.

Funnel: a cone-shaped utensil with a tube at the apex for conducting liquid or other substance through a small opening, as into a bottle, jug, or the like.

Funnel: a smokestack, especially of a steamship.

Funnel: a flue, tube, or shaft, as for ventilation.

Funnel: to concentrate, channel, focus or target: They funneled all income into research projects.

Funnel: to pour through or as if through a funnel.

 Wanda Jackson - Funnel Of Love (1961)

FUNNEL

Pool

 Freezepop - Swimming Pool

This word brings visions of summer fun to my mind. When I was a child we had a swimming pool in our backyard. Because of this my brother, sister and I were the most popular kids on the block. Only problem was our parents were very strict about letting us invite our friends over to swim. One time the neighbor kids sneaked into our backyard while we were gone and they were caught in our pool when we arrived back home. My dad was livid and the kids never did that again.
 

Pool: a small body of standing water; pond.

Pool: any small collection of liquid on a surface: a pool of blood.

Pool: Also called pocket billiards. any of various games played on a pool table  with a cue ball and 15 other balls that are usually numbered, in which the object is to drive all the balls into the pockets with the cue ball.

 Pool: The total amount staked by a combination of bettors, as on a race, to be awarded to the successful bettor or bettors. The combination of such bettors. 

To put (resources, money, etc.) into a pool, or common stock or fund, as for a financial venture, according to agreement. Pool your money

POOL