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pole en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /pol/ (Scotland)
  • [pʰɒɫ] doll–dole merger
  • /pəʉl/ (Australia)
  • [pʰoʊɫ] (Canada, General-American)
  • /pɐʉl/ (New-Zealand)
  • /pɒl/ doll–dole merger
  • /poʊl/ (Canada, General-American)
  • /pəʊl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [pʰoɫ] (Scotland)
  • [pʰɐʉɫ] (Australia)
  • [pʰɒʊɫ] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [pʰəʉɫ] (Australia)
  • [pʰɐʉɫ] (New-Zealand)
  • [pʰoːɫ] (Wales) without the toe–tow merger
  • /poːl/ (Wales) without the toe–tow merger

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-der. Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos Proto-Italic *pākslos Latin pālusbor. Proto-West Germanic *pālu Proto-West Germanic *pāl Old English pāl Middle English pole English poleFrom 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. 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”).

Meanings

  1. Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
    • There she was, walking around with an IV pole, and we were only told that "Mommy isn't feeling so well, so she has to be connected to a special soda." 2019, Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve, Seal Press, page 26:
    • 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. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
  2. A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
  3. A type of basic fishing rod.
  4. A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
  5. (qualifier:spotting, slang) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
  6. (historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
  7. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of pole position.
  8. (US, qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang) A rifle.
  9. (slang, vulgar) A penis.
  10. (slang) A wicket, especially in the context of the number of wickets taken by a particular bowler.
    • Only three cricketers have taken all 10 poles in a Test innings.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
poles Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

stripper pole · snow pole · poleman · foul pole · grabpole · meatpole · roundpole · gee pole · pole up one's ass · socket pole · beanpole · eighth pole · pole dancing · liberty pole · poleaxe · pole vaulter · fencepole · polester · mortuary pole · pole cleaver · pole jam · pole-chain · monkey pole · pole dancer · boom pole · taxi pole · sweet pole · ski pole · hiking pole · pole plate · telephone pole · pole building · utility pole · spinnaker pole · quant pole · welcome pole · pole-jocking · the longest pole knocks the persimmon · pole dance · Stobie pole · ice pole · cross-pole · dance pole · footpole · pole lathe · pole hook · clothespole · polespear · pole corn · quarter pole · habitat pole · negative pole · polesitter · family pole · smoke someone's pole · over-the-pole · polestar · nerd pole · poleless · totem pole · shame pole · ridgepole · flagpole · pitchpole · cartpole · polesman · poler · clodpole · pole position · bush pole · walking pole · depress the pole · double pole · pike pole · pole vault · pole bean · firepole · telegraph pole · lodgepole · polescreen · ridicule pole · alepole · Hop Pole · whisker pole · setting pole · double-pole technique · hydro pole · ranging pole · poleboat · not touch something with a ten-foot pole · trolley pole · smoke pole · pole-sitter · Festivus pole · J-pole antenna · polehead · power pole · polearm · shoulder pole · headpole · barber pole · tentpole · pole hammer · poletimber · hop pole · barge pole · springpole · range pole · up the pole · pole charge · bargepole · milepole · fuckpole · tail-pole · pole-crab · fishpole · lightpole · maypole · pole weapon · punt pole · fishing pole · perch pole · coupling pole · pole barn · polelike · pole fitness · rhythm pole · lodge pole · polepiece · icy pole · trekking pole · gin pole · carrying pole · memorial pole · greasy pole · catchpole · punting pole · pole-smoker

Meronyms

pole-guard · pole-pad · pole-ring · pole-hook · pole-screen · pole-hound · pole-pin · pole-socket · pole-pin-strap · pole-strap · pole-stop · pole-plate

Synonyms

carriage pole · rod (unit of length) · drawbar · shaft · beam

Translations (154)

ro drug (long and slender object for construction or support) · fr perche (long and slender object for construction or support) · sv stav (long and slender object for construction or support) · fi paalu (long and slender object for construction or support) · sl drog (long and slender object for construction or support) · it palo (long and slender object for construction or support) · sh mȍtka (long and slender object for construction or support) · ota هرك (long and slender object for construction or support) · gd cabar (long and slender object for construction or support) · ca perxa (implement for pole-vaulting) · fi sauva (long and slender object for construction or support) · it canna da pesca (type of fishing rod) · eo borilo ((vulgar) penis) · be жардзі́на (long and slender object for construction or support) · cmn 杆子 (long and slender object for construction or support) · es pertigal (long and slender object for construction or support) · sl palica (long and slender object for construction or support) · fi paalu (motor racing: pole position — see also pole position) · ro par (long and slender object for construction or support) · fi tanko (long and slender object for construction or support) · sc palu (long and slender object for construction or support) · pl drąg (long and slender object for construction or support) · it pertica (unit of length) · sw mlingoti (long and slender object for construction or support) · fi vapa (type of fishing rod) · ar زَانَة (implement for pole-vaulting) · hu pózna (long and slender object for construction or support) · sdc asta (long and slender object for construction or support) · fi salko (long and slender object for construction or support) · da pæl (long and slender object for construction or support) · el κοντάρι (long and slender object for construction or support) · be слуп (long and slender object for construction or support) · th เสา (long and slender object for construction or support) · fa-ira پالار (long and slender object for construction or support) · hu rúd (long and slender object for construction or support) · ru шест (long and slender object for construction or support) · ar عَمُود (long and slender object for construction or support) · sc albaranu (long and slender object for construction or support) · br peul (long and slender object for construction or support) · tsg usuk (long and slender object for construction or support) · ar قُطْب (long and slender object for construction or support) · uk жерди́на (implement for pole-vaulting) · pl pręt (long and slender object for construction or support) · es pértiga (long and slender object for construction or support) · inh бӏоагӏа (long and slender object for construction or support) · nb stokk (long and slender object for construction or support) · ms tiang (long and slender object for construction or support) · pdt Pol (long and slender object for construction or support) · it asta (long and slender object for construction or support) · be жэ́рдка (long and slender object for construction or support) · he מוֹט (long and slender object for construction or support) · ro stâlp (long and slender object for construction or support) · cs prut (approx. 5m) (unit of length) · sq shtagë (long and slender object for construction or support) · vec pal (long and slender object for construction or support) · fi seiväs (implement for pole-vaulting) · ca pal (long and slender object for construction or support) · pt vara (long and slender object for construction or support) · it asta (implement for pole-vaulting) · mi panoho (long and slender object for construction or support) · la asser (long and slender object for construction or support) · kk бағана (long and slender object for construction or support) · km បង្គោល (long and slender object for construction or support) · ja(long and slender object for construction or support) · zza qutub (long and slender object for construction or support) · sdn stantagliu (long and slender object for construction or support) · cs kůl (long and slender object for construction or support) · gl poste (long and slender object for construction or support) · oc pèrga (implement for pole-vaulting) · sk palica (long and slender object for construction or support) · eo kaco ((vulgar) penis) · tr direk (long and slender object for construction or support) · eo ŝtopilo ((vulgar) penis) · fr perche (implement for pole-vaulting) · hu cölöp (long and slender object for construction or support) · fi seiväs (long and slender object for construction or support) · te గడ కర్ర (long and slender object for construction or support) · hi बल्ली (long and slender object for construction or support) · fi pylväs (long and slender object for construction or support) · nl boom (long and slender object for construction or support) · av мокъ (long and slender object for construction or support) · bg стълб (long and slender object for construction or support) · srn kula (long and slender object for propelling a boat) · scn palu (long and slender object for construction or support) · ru столб (long and slender object for construction or support) · zza tirag (long and slender object for construction or support) · ru жердь (long and slender object for construction or support) · gl hasta (long and slender object for construction or support) · bg пръ́чка (type of fishing rod) · ce бӏогӏам (long and slender object for construction or support) · uk стовп (long and slender object for construction or support) · fi putki (telescope) · sc pau (long and slender object for construction or support) · alt сырык (long and slender object for construction or support) · sk žrď (long and slender object for construction or support) · tr sırık (long and slender object for construction or support) · hu rúd (implement for pole-vaulting) · hy ձող (long and slender object for construction or support) · ko 막대기 (long and slender object for construction or support) · sk tyč (long and slender object for construction or support) · pl tyczka (implement for pole-vaulting) · grc κοντός (long and slender object for construction or support) · eo stango (long and slender object for construction or support) · fa-ira تیرَک (long and slender object for construction or support) · pt caniço (type of fishing rod) · eu haga (long and slender object for construction or support) · es garrocha (long and slender object for construction or support) · bg прът (long and slender object for construction or support) · cs tyč (long and slender object for construction or support) · ms galah (long and slender object for construction or support) · lo ເສົາ (long and slender object for construction or support) · bn কুতুব (long and slender object for construction or support) · it pertica (long and slender object for construction or support) · es vara (long and slender object for construction or support) · grc κάμαξ (long and slender object for construction or support) · eo fikilo ((vulgar) penis) · mn багана (long and slender object for construction or support) · ko 장대 (long and slender object for construction or support) · nb trøe (type of fishing rod) · nb stolpe (long and slender object for construction or support) · eo kreskant-en-mano ((vulgar) penis) · br post (long and slender object for construction or support) · uk жерди́на (long and slender object for construction or support) · gl vara (long and slender object for construction or support) · tsg tukun (long and slender object for propelling a boat) · uz ustun (long and slender object for construction or support) · sk kôl (long and slender object for construction or support) · tr sırık (implement for pole-vaulting) · nl paal (long and slender object for construction or support) · ota كوندر (long and slender object for construction or support) · mi turupou (long and slender object for construction or support) · fur pâl (long and slender object for construction or support) · fr perche (unit of length) · la pertica (long and slender object for construction or support) · nb stav (long and slender object for construction or support) · uz xoda (long and slender object for construction or support) · eo suĉumino ((vulgar) penis) · he כְּלוֹנָס (long and slender object for construction or support) · it canna (type of fishing rod) · ja 竿 (long and slender object for construction or support) · nb stolpe (long and slender object for construction or support) · sh мо̏тка (long and slender object for construction or support) · es palo (long and slender object for construction or support) · vls poale (long and slender object for construction or support) · de Stab (long and slender object for construction or support) · ga cuaille (long and slender object for construction or support) · ceb usok (long and slender object for construction or support) · ru шест (implement for pole-vaulting) · sc longupànte (long and slender object for construction or support) · ota صیریق (long and slender object for construction or support) · pl wędzisko (type of fishing rod) · vec pało (long and slender object for construction or support) · de Stange (long and slender object for construction or support) · pl pręt (unit of length)

pole en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /pol/ (Scotland)
  • [pʰɒɫ] doll–dole merger
  • /pəʉl/ (Australia)
  • [pʰoʊɫ] (Canada, General-American)
  • /pɐʉl/ (New-Zealand)
  • /pɒl/ doll–dole merger
  • /poʊl/ (Canada, General-American)
  • /pəʊl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [pʰoɫ] (Scotland)
  • [pʰɐʉɫ] (Australia)
  • [pʰɒʊɫ] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [pʰəʉɫ] (Australia)
  • [pʰɐʉɫ] (New-Zealand)
  • [pʰoːɫ] (Wales) without the toe–tow merger
  • /poːl/ (Wales) without the toe–tow merger

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-der. Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos Proto-Italic *pākslos Latin pālusbor. Proto-West Germanic *pālu Proto-West Germanic *pāl Old English pāl Middle English pole English poleFrom 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. 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”).

Meanings

  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.
  6. (transitive) To strike (the ball) very hard.
    • Long had poled the ball into the lower deck in right center. 2007, Tony Silvia, Baseball Over the Air:
  7. (transitive) To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.
    • to pole copper

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
poling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
poled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
poled Tense=Past lexicographic
poles Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Translations (7)

mi toko (propel by pushing with poles) · hu lök (propel by pushing with poles) · srn kula (propel by pushing with poles) · mi tītoko (propel by pushing with poles) · pt varear (propel by pushing with poles) · sv staka (propel by pushing with poles) · fi sauvoa (propel by pushing with poles)

pole en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /pol/ (Scotland)
  • [pʰɒɫ] doll–dole merger
  • /pəʉl/ (Australia)
  • [pʰoʊɫ] (Canada, General-American)
  • /pɐʉl/ (New-Zealand)
  • /pɒl/ doll–dole merger
  • /poʊl/ (Canada, General-American)
  • /pəʊl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [pʰoɫ] (Scotland)
  • [pʰɐʉɫ] (Australia)
  • [pʰɒʊɫ] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [pʰəʉɫ] (Australia)
  • [pʰɐʉɫ] (New-Zealand)
  • [pʰoːɫ] (Wales) without the toe–tow merger
  • /poːl/ (Wales) without the toe–tow merger

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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. (broadly, figuratively) Any of a small set of extremes; especially, either of two extremes that are possible or available.
    • In discussing alternatives to the polar extremes, Professor Nguyen mentioned two poles of a filthy floor versus a sterile surgical site.
    • Genuine music is the offspring of profound emotion: of exaltation, pain, or joy. Music produced outside of a situation between these poles of the human heart is of banal character, bloodless, watery. 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 194:
  4. A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
  5. A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
  6. For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.
    • The function f(z)#61;#92;frac#123;1#125;#123;z-3#125; has a single pole at z#61;3.
  7. (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
    • And the slope sun his upward beam / Shoots against the dusky pole, 1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, 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:
  8. Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
poles Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

zero (antonym(s) of “complex analysis”)

Deriveds

polarity (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · south-seeking pole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · paleopole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · Earth's third pole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · N-pole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · analogous pole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · Polie (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · interpole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · monopole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · quadrupole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · animal pole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · polepiece (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · unipole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · S-pole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · north pole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · pole face (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · poleless (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · hexapole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · salient pole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · south pole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · multipole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · vegetal pole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · hexadecapole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · pole arctic (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · cold pole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · counterpole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · polary (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · polar (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · epipole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · bipole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · quadripole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · polocyte (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · octupole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · positive pole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · shaded pole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · tripole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · cross-pole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · polestar (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · antilogous pole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · celestial pole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · octopole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · pole star (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · dipole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · poles apart (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · Voronoi pole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · north-seeking pole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · poleward (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · antipole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · pole of cold (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · polewards (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · polelike (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)) · magnetic pole (Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2))

Translations (168)

it polo (magnetic point) · hu pólus (extreme of an axis) · ru по́люс (isolated point of a meromorphic function (complex analysis)) · sk pól (extreme of an axis) · cmn 極 /极 (magnetic point) · is póll (extreme of an axis) · cs točna (extreme of an axis) · uz qutb (magnetic point) · ko(isolated point of a meromorphic function (complex analysis)) · cs pól (isolated point of a meromorphic function (complex analysis)) · es polo (magnetic point) · tl taluktok (magnetic point) · fi napa (magnetic point) · bg по́люс (extreme of an axis) · ga pol (extreme of an axis) · tr kutup (magnetic point) · bn মেরু (extreme of an axis) · mi tōpito (extreme of an axis) · sv pol (extreme of an axis) · pt polo (magnetic point) · lv pols (magnetic point) · tg қутб (magnetic point) · ja(magnetic point) · fi napa (isolated point of a meromorphic function (complex analysis)) · km អក្ខោសាន (magnetic point) · oc pòl (magnetic point) · gl polo (isolated point of a meromorphic function (complex analysis)) · es polo (extreme of an axis) · vi cực (magnetic point) · ms kutub (extreme of an axis) · mn туйл (magnetic point) · eo poluso (extreme of an axis) · ru по́люс (magnetic point) · hu sark (extreme of an axis) · ja(isolated point of a meromorphic function (complex analysis)) · mi pito (extreme of an axis) · he קוטב \ קֹטֶב (magnetic point) · pl biegun (isolated point of a meromorphic function (complex analysis)) · be по́люс (magnetic point) · mk пол (contact on an electrical device) · sl pol (magnetic point) · la polus (extreme of an axis) · ga mol (extreme of an axis) · nl pool (magnetic point) · tg қутб (extreme of an axis) · nb pol (extreme of an axis) · ro pol (extreme of an axis) · tk polýus (magnetic point) · hi छोर (extreme of an axis) · vep naba (magnetic point) · sq pol (magnetic point) · cs pól (magnetic point) · uk по́люс (extreme of an axis) · gl polo (contact on an electrical device) · pl biegun (extreme of an axis) · ro pol (magnetic point) · bg по́люс (contact on an electrical device) · hu pólus (contact on an electrical device) · ca pol (magnetic point) · es polo (contact on an electrical device) · ba полюс (magnetic point) · cmn 極 /极 (extreme of an axis) · de Pol (magnetic point) · es polo (isolated point of a meromorphic function (complex analysis)) · de Pol (contact on an electrical device) · el πόλος (extreme of an axis) · kk үйек (magnetic point) · cy pegwn (extreme of an axis) · hu sarkpont (extreme of an axis) · th ขั้ว (magnetic point) · de Pol (extreme of an axis) · it polo (contact on an electrical device) · ka პოლუსი (magnetic point) · hi ध्रुव (magnetic point) · az qütb (magnetic point) · ug قۇتۇپ (magnetic point) · de Polstelle (isolated point of a meromorphic function (complex analysis)) · ko(magnetic point) · ky уюл (magnetic point) · lt ašigalis (magnetic point) · pt polo (contact on an electrical device) · ps قطب (magnetic point) · da pol (extreme of an axis) · lo ຂົ້ວ (magnetic point) · hu pólus (magnetic point) · pt polo (isolated point of a meromorphic function (complex analysis)) · cs pól (extreme of an axis) · gl polo (extreme of an axis) · fr pôle (extreme of an axis) · et poolus (magnetic point) · gl polo (magnetic point) · ga pol (magnetic point) · fr pôle (magnetic point) · sk pól (magnetic point) · pt polo (extreme of an axis) · he קוטב \ קֹטֶב (extreme of an axis) · th ขั้วโลก (magnetic point) · ja(extreme of an axis) · sh по̑л (magnetic point) · uk бігу́н (extreme of an axis) · sk pól (contact on an electrical device) · pl biegun (contact on an electrical device) · sl tečaj (magnetic point) · ms kutub (magnetic point) · sh pȏl (magnetic point) · id kutub (magnetic point) · hi क़ुतुब (magnetic point) · yi פּאָלוס (magnetic point) · it polo (extreme of an axis) · mi pito (contact on an electrical device) · ar قُطْب (magnetic point) · bn কুতুব (extreme of an axis) · ota قطب (magnetic point) · fi napa (contact on an electrical device) · ja(contact on an electrical device) · uk по́люс (magnetic point) · ko(extreme of an axis) · tt котып (magnetic point) · bn কুতুব (magnetic point) · ota قطب (extreme of an axis) · uz polyus (magnetic point) · mk пол (magnetic point) · de Pol (isolated point of a meromorphic function (complex analysis)) · tr kutup (extreme of an axis) · be по́люс (contact on an electrical device) · kmr cemser (magnetic point) · kk полюс (magnetic point) · nl pool (extreme of an axis) · my ပိုစွန်း (magnetic point) · oc pòl (extreme of an axis) · fa قطب (extreme of an axis) · ko(contact on an electrical device) · nb pol (magnetic point) · ca pol (extreme of an axis) · be по́люс (extreme of an axis) · is póll (magnetic point) · mk пол (extreme of an axis) · cs pól (contact on an electrical device) · ur قطب (magnetic point) · ga pol (contact on an electrical device) · sh pȏl (extreme of an axis) · sh по̑л (extreme of an axis) · pt extremidade (extreme of an axis) · sv pol (isolated point of a meromorphic function (complex analysis)) · ar قُطْب (contact on an electrical device) · fa قطب (magnetic point) · fi napa (extreme of an axis) · hy բևեռ (extreme of an axis) · el πόλος (magnetic point) · km ប៉ូល (magnetic point) · uk по́люс (contact on an electrical device) · sv pol (magnetic point) · ka პოლუსი (extreme of an axis) · ky полюс (magnetic point) · ar قُطْب (extreme of an axis) · tl polo (magnetic point) · sl pol (extreme of an axis) · bg по́люс (magnetic point) · bn মেরু (magnetic point) · hy բևեռ (magnetic point) · da pol (magnetic point) · fa نشین (extreme of an axis) · bn ধ্রুব (extreme of an axis) · ru по́люс (contact on an electrical device) · vi cực (extreme of an axis) · pl biegun (magnetic point) · ru по́люс (extreme of an axis) · sv pol (contact on an electrical device)

pole en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /pol/ (Scotland)
  • [pʰɒɫ] doll–dole merger
  • /pəʉl/ (Australia)
  • [pʰoʊɫ] (Canada, General-American)
  • /pɐʉl/ (New-Zealand)
  • /pɒl/ doll–dole merger
  • /poʊl/ (Canada, General-American)
  • /pəʊl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [pʰoɫ] (Scotland)
  • [pʰɐʉɫ] (Australia)
  • [pʰɒʊɫ] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [pʰəʉɫ] (Australia)
  • [pʰɐʉɫ] (New-Zealand)
  • [pʰoːɫ] (Wales) without the toe–tow merger
  • /poːl/ (Wales) without the toe–tow merger

Etymology

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

Meanings

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

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
poling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
poles Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
poled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
poled Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

overpole