pole
nounEtymology
From Middle English pole, pal, from Old English pāl (“a pole, stake, post; a kind of hoe or spade”), from Proto-West Germanic *pāl (“pole”), from Latin pālus (“stake, pale, prop, stay”), perhaps from Old Latin *paxlos, from Proto-Italic *pākslos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to nail, fasten”). Doublet of peel, pale, and palus. Cognates Cognate with Scots pale, paill (“stake, pale”), North Frisian pul, pil (“stake, pale”), Saterland Frisian Pool (“pole”), West Frisian poal (“pole”), Dutch paal (“pole”), German Pfahl (“pile, stake, post, pole”), Danish pæl (“pole”), Swedish påle (“pole”), Icelandic páll (“hoe, spade, pale”), Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; lustrum”).
Definitions
Originally, a stick
Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
- For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
- There she was, walking around with an IV pole, and we were only told that "Mommy isn't feeling so well, so she has to be connected to a special soda."
A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
A type of basic fishing rod.
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A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting
A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
A pole position.
A rifle.
A penis.
A wicket, especially in the context of the number of wickets taken by a particular bowler.
- Only three cricketers have taken all 10 poles in a Test innings.
To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
- Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.
To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
- He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.
To furnish with poles for support.
- to pole beans or hops
To convey on poles.
- to pole hay into a barn
To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
To strike (the ball) very hard.
- Long had poled the ball into the lower deck in right center.
To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten…
To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.
- to pole copper
Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates
Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet…
A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
Any of a small set of extremes
Any of a small set of extremes; especially, either of two extremes that are possible or available.
- In discussing alternatives to the polar extremes, Professor Nguyen mentioned two poles of a filthy floor versus a sterile surgical site.
- Genuine music is the offspring of profound emotion: of exaltation, pain, or joy. Music produced outside of a situation between these poles of the human heart is of banal character, bloodless, watery.
A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or…
A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.
- The function f(z)#61;#92;frac#123;1#125;#123;z-3#125; has a single pole at z#61;3.
The firmament
The firmament; the sky.
- And the slope sun his upward beam / Shoots against the dusky pole,
Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
A person from Poland or of Polish descent.
A surname.
The neighborhood
- antonymzeroantonym(s) of “complex analysis”
Derived
alepole, barber pole, barge pole, bargepole, beanpole, boom pole, bush pole, carrying pole, cartpole, catchpole, clodpole, clothespole, coupling pole, cross-pole, dance pole, depress the pole, double pole, double-pole technique, eighth pole, family pole, fencepole, Festivus pole, firepole, fishing pole, fishpole, flagpole, footpole, foul pole, fuckpole, gee pole, gin pole, grabpole, greasy pole, habitat pole, headpole, hiking pole, Hop Pole, hydro pole, ice pole, icy pole · +141 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at pole. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at pole. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at pole
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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