pole

See also: Pole, pôle, and -pole

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pəʊl/, /pɔʊl/
  • (US) IPA(key): /poʊl/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /pɔːl/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊl
  • Homophones: Pole, poll

Etymology 1

From Middle English pole, pal, from Old English pāl (“a pole, stake, post; a kind of hoe or spade”), from Proto-Germanic *palaz, *pālaz (“pole”), from Latin pālus (“stake, pale, prop, stay”) from Old Latin *paglus, from Proto-Indo-European *pāǵe- (“to nail, fasten”).

Noun

pole (plural poles)

  1. Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      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.
  2. (fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
  3. A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
  4. (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
  5. (historical) A unit of length, equal to a perch (¼ chain or 5½ yards).
  6. (motor racing) Pole position.
  7. (US, rap music, slang) A gun.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:stick
  • (unit of length): rod
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

pole (third-person singular simple present poles, present participle poling, simple past and past participle poled)

  1. 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.
  2. To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
    He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.
  3. (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
    to pole beans or hops
  4. (transitive) To convey on poles.
    to pole hay into a barn
  5. (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle French pole, pôle, and its source, Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

Noun

pole (plural poles)

  1. Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
  2. A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
  3. (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
  4. (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
  5. (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function , any point for which as .
    The function has a single pole at
    .
  6. (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
    • 1634, John Milton, Comus, 1817, Paradise Regained... To which is added a complete collection of his miscellaneous poems, page 211,
      And the slope sun his upward beam / Shoots against the dusky pole,
  7. Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
Antonyms
  • (complex analysis): zero
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb

pole (third-person singular simple present poles, present participle poling, simple past and past participle poled)

  1. (transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.

Anagrams

Aiwoo

Verb

pole

  1. to work (in a garden or field)

References

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German boln.

Verb

pole

  1. (Uri) to make noise, clatter, rumble

References

Czech

Pronunciation

  • audio(file)

Noun

pole n

  1. (agriculture) field
  2. (physics) field
  3. (algebra) field
  4. (computing) field
  5. (programming) array

Declension

Synonyms

Further reading

  • pole in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • pole in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Adverb

pole

  1. in Polish

Estonian

Etymology

Contraction of ep ole (Modern: ei ole). ep is the old 3rd person singular form of the negative verb.

Verb

pole

  1. Alternative form of ei ole

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin pollen.

Noun

pole m (plural poles)

  1. pollen
  2. (motor racing) Pole position.
Synonyms

Etymology 2

See pulir.

Verb

pole

  1. Third-person singular (el, ela, vostede?) present indicative of pulir

Latin

Noun

pole

  1. vocative singular of polus

References

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pȍlje.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔlɛ/
  • audio(file)

Noun

pole n

  1. field (land area; wide open space)
  2. (regional, singular only) outside
  3. (geometry) area
  4. (physics) field

Declension

Derived terms

Spanish

Noun

pole m (plural poles)

  1. (motor racing) Pole position.
Synonyms

Verb

pole

  1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of polir.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of polir.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of polir.

Swahili

Adverb

pole

  1. sorry

Adjective

pole

  1. slow (not quick in motion)

Inflection

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