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pole

See also: Pole, pôle, and -pole

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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”).

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”).

NounEdit

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.
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Derived termsEdit
Derived terms
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
motor racing: pole position — See also translations at pole position

VerbEdit

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.
TranslationsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

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

NounEdit

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.
AntonymsEdit
  • (complex analysis): zero
Derived termsEdit
terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit

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.

AnagramsEdit

AiwooEdit

VerbEdit

pole

  1. to work (in a garden or field)

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Alemannic GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle High German boln.

VerbEdit

pole

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

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CzechEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pole n

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

DeclensionEdit

Declension
singular plural
nominative pole pole
genitive pole polí
dative poli polím
accusative pole pole
vocative pole pole
locative poli polích
instrumental polem poli

SynonymsEdit

Further readingEdit

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

EsperantoEdit

AdverbEdit

pole

  1. in Polish

EstonianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

VerbEdit

pole

  1. Alternative form of ei ole

GalicianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin pollen.

NounEdit

pole m (plural poles)

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

Etymology 2Edit

See pulir.

VerbEdit

pole

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

LatinEdit

NounEdit

pole

  1. vocative singular of polus

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PolishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *pȍlje.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pole n

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

DeclensionEdit

declension of pole
singular plural
nominative pole pola
genitive pola pól
dative polu polom
accusative pole pola
instrumental polem polami
locative polu polach
vocative pole pola

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • pole in Polish dictionaries at PWN

SpanishEdit

NounEdit

pole m (plural poles)

  1. (motor racing) Pole position.
SynonymsEdit

VerbEdit

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.

SwahiliEdit

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