Pole

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /pəʊl/, /pɔʊl/
• US IPA: /poÊŠl/, /plÌ©/
• Homophones: pull
• Rhymes: -əʊl
• Homophones: Pole, poll

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"). Cognate with Scots pale, paill ("stake, pale"), North Frisian pul, pil ("stake, pale"), 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").

Full definition of pole

Noun

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, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 1, 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. (angling) A type of basic fishing rod.
3. A long fiberglass sports implement used for pole-vaulting.
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. (auto racing) Pole position.

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Verb

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.

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

Noun

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 $f(z)$

1. ''The function $f(z)\; =\; \backslash frac\{1\}\{z-3\}$ has a single pole at $$

1. (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
• Miltonshoots against the dusky pole

Antonyms

• (complex analysis) zero

Derived terms

• polar
• polarity
• dipole
• monopole
• north pole
• south pole
• poles apart
• polestar, pole star

Verb

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

Anagrams

• lope, olpe