pole

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəʊl/, /pɔʊl/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /poʊl/
  • IPA^(key): [pʰoʊ̯ɫ], [pʰoəɫ]
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  IPA^(key): [pʰoʊ̯ɫ]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /pɔːl/
• 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”).

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.

• See also Thesaurus:stick
• (unit of length): rod

• pole vault

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.

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

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 ${\displaystyle f(z)}$ , any point ${\displaystyle a}$ for which ${\displaystyle f(z)\rightarrow \infty }$ as ${\displaystyle z\rightarrow a}$ .

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

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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.

• (complex analysis): zero

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.

• LEPO, lope, olpe, pleo-

pole

1. to work (in a garden or field)

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

From Middle High German boln.

pole

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

• “pole” in Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & co., page 35.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpolɛ]

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pole n

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

• komutativní těleso n (algebra)

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

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pole

1. in Polish

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

pole

1. Alternative form of ei ole

From Latin pollen.

pole m (plural poles)

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

• primeira posición

See pulir.

pole

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

pole

1. vocative singular of polus

• pole in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pole in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

From Proto-Slavic *pȍlje.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.lɛ/

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pole n (diminutive poletko)

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

• pole namiotowe
• szukać wiatru w polu

• pole in Polish dictionaries at PWN

pole m (plural poles)

1. (motor racing) Pole position.

• primera posición

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.

pole

1. sorry

pole

1. slow (not quick in motion)