pole
IPA: pˈoʊɫ
noun
- Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
- A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
- (fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
- A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
- (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
- (historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
- (motor racing) Pole position.
- (US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A rifle.
- (vulgar, slang) A penis.
- 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 (designated north and south).
- (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
- (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
- (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.
- (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
- Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
- A person from Poland or of Polish descent.
- A surname.
verb
- To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
- To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
- (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
- (transitive) To convey on poles.
- (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
- (transitive, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.
- (transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
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Examples of "pole" in Sentences
- I pulled out the pole.
- Penguin lives in the South Pole.
- The auxiliary support pole is extensible.
- The magnets and the pole pieces are cooled.
- The pole is unsupported by the platform and the walls.
- One pole is attractive and the other pole is repulsive.
- The temporary pole is installed, inspected and ready to go.
- Factual: the night-time temperature at the pole is around - 130C ()
- Inside the tipi, a cord is wrapped from pole to pole above head height.
- The blank is a pole, typically graphite, that forms the core of the rod.
- The anterior pole is bluntly pointed, while the posterior pole is blunted.
- There are two poles in the renal corpuscle, a vascular pole, and a urinary pole.
- The only reason people would buy this pole is because they think it looks cool, that's it.
- _horror_, and _flying from pole to pole_ to avoid a man because you have made him at last find out that he has a heart!
- Period: May 2009* operation: elliptical orbit, 20 km (perilune) at south pole and 100 km (apolune) at north pole* mission: same as phase 2.
- As most Supts have never done any decent police work in their lives the only way they can move up the pole is to keep reaching their targets and having a good “diversity” and “issue” agenda.
- For her part, Selectman Nancy Hyde said having a marker, which she called a pole, "is the most important thing to be able to find those fire hydrants," especially when they are covered by snow.
- In what we called the pole-of-consciousness and the pole-of-life we therefore have a clear polarity of the second order, and so in everything that is connected with these two, as our further discussions will show.
- In place of the term pole, I propose using that of _Electrode_ [A], and I mean thereby that substance, or rather surface, whether of air, water, metal, or any other body, which bounds the extent of the decomposing matter in the direction of the electric current.