pole
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /pəʊl/, [pʰɒʊɫ]
- (New Zealand, General Australian) IPA(key): /pɐʉl/, [pʰɒʊɫ]
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /poʊl/, [pʰoʊɫ], [pʰoəɫ]
- Rhymes: -əʊl
- Homophones: Pole, poll
Etymology 1Edit
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.
NounEdit
pole (plural poles)
- 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.
- A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
- Meronyms: pole-guard, pole-hook, pole-hound, pole-pad, pole-pin, pole-pin-strap, pole-plate, pole-ring, pole-screen, pole-socket, pole-stop, pole-strap
- Synonyms: carriage pole, beam, shaft, drawbar
- (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 gun.
- (vulgar, slang) A penis.
SynonymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:stick
- (unit of length): rod
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
pole (third-person singular simple present poles, present participle poling, simple past and past participle poled)
- 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.
- (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
- to pole beans or hops
- (transitive) To convey on poles.
- to pole hay into a barn
- (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
- (transitive, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.
- 2007, Tony Silvia, Baseball Over the Air:
- Long had poled the ball into the lower deck in right center.
TranslationsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle French pole, pôle, from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).
NounEdit
pole (plural poles)
- 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 , any point for which as .
- The function has a single pole at .
- (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
- And the slope sun his upward beam / Shoots against the dusky pole,
- Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
AntonymsEdit
- (complex analysis): zero
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
pole (third-person singular simple present poles, present participle poling, simple past and past participle poled)
- (transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
AnagramsEdit
AiwooEdit
VerbEdit
pole
- to work (in a garden or field)
ReferencesEdit
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Alemannic GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle High German boln.
VerbEdit
pole
ReferencesEdit
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 35.
CzechEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *poľe.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pole n
- (agriculture) field
- (physics) field
- (algebra) field
- Synonym: komutativní těleso
- (computing) field
- (programming) array
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
EsperantoEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
AdverbEdit
pole
EstonianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Contraction of ep ole (Modern: ei ole). ep is the old 3rd person singular form of the negative verb.
VerbEdit
pole
GalicianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
pole m (plural poles)
SynonymsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
VerbEdit
pole
LatinEdit
NounEdit
pole
ReferencesEdit
- pole in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “pole”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pȍľe, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (whence English plain, plane, plan, piano, clan, plant, planet, place, floor, and flake).
NounEdit
pole n (diminutive poletko)
- field (land area; wide open space)
- (regional, singular only) outside
- (geometry) area
- (physics) field
- (computing) field
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
NounEdit
pole f
Further readingEdit
Serbo-CroatianEdit
NounEdit
pole (Cyrillic spelling поле)
SlovakEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *poľe.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pole n
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- Štefan Peciar, editor (1959–1968), “pole”, in Slovník slovenského jazyka (in Slovak), Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo SAV
- pole in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
SpanishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From English pole position.
NounEdit
pole m (plural poles)
- (motor racing) pole position
- Synonym: primera posición
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
pole
- inflection of polir:
SwahiliEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
InterjectionEdit
pole (plural poleni)
See alsoEdit
AdjectiveEdit
-pole (declinable)
InflectionEdit
Derived termsEdit
- Nominal derivations:
- upole (“gentleness”)