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Definition of 'Pole'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) pole
a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.

2.  pole
a tapering piece of wood or other material that extends from the front axle of a vehicle between the animals drawing it.

3.  pole
the inside position on the front row of the starting line of a race.

4. (v.t.) pole
to furnish with poles.

5.  pole
to push, strike, or propel with a pole:
to pole a raft.

6. (v.i.) pole
to use a pole or poles, as to propel a boat or raft or push oneself on skis.

7. (n.) pole
each of the extremities of the earth's axis or of any spherical body.

8.  pole
one of two opposite or contrasted principles or tendencies.

9.  pole
a point of concentration of interest, attention, etc.

10.  pole
either of the two regions or parts of an electric battery, magnet, or the like, that exhibits electrical or magnetic polarity.

11.  pole
either end of an ideal axis in a nucleus, cell, or ovum, about which parts are more or less symmetrically arranged.

12.  pole
either end of a spindle-shaped figure formed in a cell during mitosis.

13.  pole
the place at which a cell extension or process begins, as a nerve cell axon or a flagellum.

14.  pole
Math.

15. (n.) Pole
a native or inhabitant of Poland.

16. (n.) Pole
1500–58, English cardinal and last Roman Catholic archbishop of Canterbury.

Definition of 'Pole'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) pole
a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic

2. (noun) Pole
a native or inhabitant of Poland

3. (noun) pole
one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions
"they are at opposite poles"; "they are poles apart"

4. (noun) perch, rod, pole
a linear measure of 16.5 feet

5. (noun) perch, rod, pole
a square rod of land

6. (noun) pole, celestial pole
one of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and the celestial sphere

7. (noun) pole
one of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface

8. (noun) terminal, pole
a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves

9. (noun) pole
a long fiberglass sports implement used for pole vaulting

10. (verb) pole, magnetic pole
one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated

11. (verb) punt, pole
propel with a pole
"pole barges on the river"; "We went punting in Cambridge"

12. (verb) pole
support on poles
"pole climbing plants like beans"

13. (verb) pole
deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole

Definition of 'Pole'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) pole
a stick used to hold sth up
The tent has six poles.; a flag pole

2. pole
the North Pole or the South Pole
to walk from pole to pole

Definition of 'Pole'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Pole
a native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander

2. (noun) Pole
a long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained

3. (noun) Pole
a measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5/ yards, or a square measure equal to 30/ square yards; a rod; a perch

4. (noun) Pole
either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole

5. (noun) Pole
a point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian

6. (noun) Pole
one of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle

7. (noun) Pole
the firmament; the sky

8. (noun) Pole
see Polarity, and Polar, n

9. (verb) Pole
to furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops

10. (verb) Pole
to convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn

11. (verb) Pole
to impel by a pole or poles, as a boat

12. (verb) Pole
to stir, as molten glass, with a pole

Definitions of 'Pole'

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. Pole
the name given to the extremities of the imaginary axis of the earth, round which it is conceived to revolve.

Translation of 'Pole'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the north or south end of the Earth's axis the North/South Pole.
Afrikaans: pool	Arabic: قُطْب	Bulgarian: полюс
Brazilian: polo	Czech: pól	German: der Pol
Danish: pol	Greek: πόλος	Spanish: polo
Estonian: poolus	Farsi: قطب	Finnish: napa
French: pôle	Hebrew: קוֹטֶב	Hindi: उत्तरी या दक्षिणी ध्रुव
Croatian: pol (sjeverni, južni)	Hungarian: sark	Indonesian: kutub
Icelandic: póll, (heim)skaut	Italian: polo	Japanese: 極
Korean: 극(지대)	Lithuanian: ašigalis	Latvian: pols
Malay: kutub	Dutch: pool	Norwegian: pol
Polish: biegun	Persian: قطب	Pashto: قطب
Portuguese: pólo	Romanian: pol	Russian: полюс
Slovak: pól	Slovenian: tečaj	Serbian: pol
Swedish: pol	Thai: ขั้วโลก	Turkish: kutup
Taiwanese: 地球軸線的南極或北極(南、北)	Ukrainian: полюс	Urdu: قطب
Vietnamese: cực trái đất	Chinese: （南、北）极
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