pole

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See also: Pole, połę, póle, półę, pôle, -pole, and поле

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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.

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”).

Noun[edit]

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. A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
    Synonyms: carriage pole, beam, shaft, drawbar
    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
  3. (fishing) 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. (slang, spotting) 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. (motor racing) Pole position.
  8. (US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A rifle.
  9. (vulgar, slang) A penis.
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
carriage pole — see beam

Verb[edit]

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.
  6. (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.
Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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.
  5. (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
  6. (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function , any point for which as .
    The function has a single pole at .
  7. (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
  8. Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
Antonyms[edit]
  • (complex analysis): zero
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)
Translations[edit]
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Verb[edit]

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.

Anagrams[edit]

Aiwoo[edit]

Verb[edit]

pole

  1. to work (in a garden or field)

References[edit]

Alemannic German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle High German boln.

Verb[edit]

pole

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

References[edit]

Czech[edit]

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia cs

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Czech pole, from Proto-Slavic *poľe.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

pole n

  1. (agriculture) field
  2. (physics) field
  3. (algebra) field
    Synonym: komutativní těleso
  4. (computing) field
  5. (programming) array

Declension[edit]

Declension of pole (soft neuter)
singular plural
nominative pole pole
genitive pole polí
dative poli polím
accusative pole pole
vocative pole pole
locative poli polích
instrumental polem poli

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

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

Esperanto[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

pole

  1. in Polish

Estonian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

pole

  1. Alternative form of ei ole

Galician[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin pollen.

Noun[edit]

pole m (plural poles)

  1. pollen
  2. (motor racing) Pole position.
Synonyms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

pole

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

Latin[edit]

Noun[edit]

pole

  1. vocative singular of polus

References[edit]

  • 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

Old Czech[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • poľe (alternative writing)

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pȍľe.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈpolɛ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈpolɛ/

Noun[edit]

pole n

  1. field (land area; wide open space)
    polem / na poli ― outside
    přěs pole přějěti/jězditi ― to have sex
  2. plain
  3. battlefield, battleground
    polem / v poli ležěti ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Declension[edit]

Declension of pole (soft o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative pole poli pole
genitive pole poľú polí
dative poľu poľoma poľóm
accusative pole poli pole
vocative pole poli pole
locative poli, poľu poľú polích
instrumental polem poľoma poli
This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Czech: pole

Further reading[edit]

Polish[edit]

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pȍľe. Doublet of polje.

Noun[edit]

pole n (diminutive poletko)

  1. field (land area; wide open space)
  2. (regional, singular only) outside
  3. (geometry) area
  4. (physics) field
  5. (computing) field
Declension[edit]
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[edit]
nouns
verb

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun[edit]

pole f

  1. dative/locative singular of poła

Further reading[edit]

  • pole in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • pole in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Noun[edit]

pole (Cyrillic spelling поле)

  1. vocative singular of pol

Slovak[edit]

Slovak Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sk

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *poľe.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

pole n

  1. field

Declension[edit]

Declension of pole
singular plural
nominative pole polia
genitive poľa polí
dative poľu poliam
accusative pole polia
locative poli poliach
instrumental poľom poľami/poliami

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English pole position.

Noun[edit]

pole m (plural poles)

  1. (motor racing) pole position
    Synonym: primera posición

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

pole

  1. inflection of polir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Swahili[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Interjection[edit]

pole (plural poleni)

  1. sorry

See also[edit]

Adjective[edit]

-pole (declinable)

  1. calm, gentle

Declension[edit]

Inflected forms of -pole
Noun class singular plural
m-wa class(I/II) mpole
m-mi class(III/IV) mpole mipole
ji-ma class(V/VI) pole mapole
ki-vi class(VII/VIII) kipole vipole
n class(IX/X) pole pole
u class(XI) mpole see n(X) or ma(VI) class
pa class(XVI) papole
ku class(XVII) kupole
mu class(XVIII) mupole

Derived terms[edit]

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