pole

See also Pole, and pôle

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /pəʊl/, SAMPA: /p@Ul/
• (US) IPA: /poʊl/, SAMPA: /poUl/
• Rhymes: -əʊl; Homophones: poll

Etymology 1

Old English pāl, from Latin pālus.

Noun

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.
2. (angling) A type of basic fishing rod.
3. A long fiberglass sports implement used for pole vaulting.
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).

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:stick

Derived terms

terms derived from pole

flagpole maypole

poleaxe pole vault

Translations

long and slender object

Albanian: shtagë (sq) f. Armenian: ձող (hy) (joġ) Basque: haga (eu) Dutch: boom (nl), paal (nl) Esperanto: stango (eo) Finnish: seiväs (fi), vapa (fi), salko (fi) French: perche (fr) f. German: Stab (de) m., Stange (de) f. Greek: κοντάρι (el) n. (kontári) Hungarian: rúd (hu), dorong (hu), pálca (hu) Italian: palo (it) m., asta (it) f.

Malay: galah (ms), tiang (ms) Polish: pręt (pl) m. Romanian: drug f. and m., par (ro) Russian: жердь (žerd’) f., шест (ru) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мо̏тка (sh) f. Roman: mȍtka (sh) f. Slovene: drog (sl) m., palica (sl) f. Spanish: palo (es) m., garrocha (es) f. Swedish: stav (sv) Telugu: గడ కర్ర (gaDa karra)

type of fishing rod

Polish: wędzisko (pl) n.

unit of length

French: perche (fr) f.

Polish: pręt (pl) m.

Verb

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.

Translations

propel by pushing with poles

Finnish: sauvoa (fi)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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) (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) One of a set of isolated points a for which the meromorphic function f(z) approaches infinity as z approaches a, such that f(z) is holomorphic on all points except its poles.

Antonyms

• (complex analysis): zero

Derived terms

• polar
• polarity
• dipole
• monopole
• north pole
• south pole
• poles apart
• polestar, pole star

Translations

extreme of an axis

Arabic: قطب (ar) (quṭb) m. Armenian: բևեռ (beveṙ) Chinese: 極, 极 (jí) Czech: pól (cs) m. Dutch: pool (nl) Esperanto: poluso (eo) Finnish: napa (fi) French: pôle (fr) German: Pol (de) m. Greek: πόλος (el) m. (pólos) Icelandic: póll (is) m.

Irish: pol (ga) m. Japanese: 極 (きょく, kyoku) Polish: biegun (pl) m. Portuguese: pólo (pt) m., extremidade (pt) f. Russian: полюс (ru) (póljus) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по̑л (sh) m. Roman: pȏl (sh) m. Spanish: polo (es) m. Swahili: mlingoti (sw) Swedish: pol (sv)

magnetic point

Armenian: բևեռ (beveṙ) Chinese: 極, 极 (jí) Dutch: pool (nl) Finnish: napa (fi) French: pôle (fr) German: Pol (de) m. Greek: πόλος (el) m. (pólos) Icelandic: póll (is) m. Irish: pol (ga) m. Japanese: 極 (きょく, kyoku)

Malay: kutub (ms) Polish: biegun (pl) m. Portuguese: pólo m. Russian: полюс (ru) (póljus) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по̑л (sh) m. Roman: pȏl (sh) m. Spanish: polo (es) m. Swahili: mlingoti (sw) Swedish: pol (sv)

contact on an electrical device

Irish: pol (ga) m.

Polish: biegun (pl) m.

isolated point (complex analysis)

Polish: biegun (pl) m.

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

Hungarian: sark Italian: polo m.

Telugu: ధృవం (dhRvam)

Anagrams

• lope
• olpe

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Czech

Pronunciation

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Noun

pole n.

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

Synonyms

• komutativní těleso n. (algebra)

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Esperanto

Adverb

pole

1. in Polish

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Estonian

Contraction

pole

1. ei ole

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Galician

Verb

pole

1. third-person singular present indicative of pulir

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Latin

Noun

pole

1. vocative singular of polus

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpɔlɛ/

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Noun

pole n.

1. field

Declension

    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 terms

• szukać wiatru w polu

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Spanish

Verb

pole (infinitive polir)

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.

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Swahili

Adjective

pole

1. slow (not quick in motion)

This Swahili entry was created from the translations listed at slow. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see pole in the Swahili Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) July 2009