pole

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəʊl/, [pʰɒʊɫ]
• (New Zealand, General Australian) IPA^(key): /pɐʉl/, [pʰɒʊɫ]
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /poʊl/, [pʰoʊɫ], [pʰoəɫ]
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• 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-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.

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.

   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

   Synonyms: carriage pole, beam, shaft, drawbar

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 gun.
9. (vulgar, slang) A penis.

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

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.

From Middle French pole, pôle, from 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 ${\displaystyle z=3}$.

6. (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
   • 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […], 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:

     And the slope sun his upward beam / Shoots against the dusky pole,

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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)

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in 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

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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *poľe.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpolɛ]

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pole n

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

   Synonym: komutativní těleso

4. (computing) field
5. (programming) array

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

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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 the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.lɛ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔlɛ
• Syllabification: po‧le

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

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pole f

1. dative/locative singular of poła

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

pole (Cyrillic spelling поле)

1. vocative singular of pol

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *poľe.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpole]

pole n

1. field

• poľný

• Štefan Peciar, editor (1959–1968), “pole”, in Slovník slovenského jazyka (in Slovak), Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo SAV
• pole in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Borrowed from English pole position.

pole m (plural poles)

1. (motor racing) pole position

   Synonym: primera posición

pole

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

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pole (plural poleni)

1. sorry

• samahani

-pole (declinable)

1. calm, gentle

• Nominal derivations:
  • upole (“gentleness”)