Definitions for polar

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polar po·lar

Spelling: [poh-ler]

IPA: /ˈpoʊ lər/

Polar is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in polar (alopr).

Definitions for polar

adjective

1. of or relating to the North or South Pole.
2. of or relating to the pole of any sphere, a magnet, an electric cell, etc.
3. opposite in character or action:
4. capable of ionizing, as NaCl, HCl, or NaOH; electrolytic; heteropolar.
5. central; pivotal:
6. analogous to the polestar as a guide; guiding:

Origin of polar

From the Medieval Latin word polāris, dating back to 1545-55. See pole², -ar¹

Examples for polar

But here, within the polar circle, what is the lowest degree?

She would leave every day of shooting during the polar vortex just grinning from ear-to-ear.

The weather, the conditions, you can imagine it—a polar bear in a desert, with a swimming pool 50 centimetres deep.

It was a domed city in the polar regions, where nobody ever had to go outdoors.

Sykes suspects that the hairs come from either an unrecognized bear species, or an unknown hybrid of polar bear and brown bear.

polar ice would have been thawed by this reopening of communication.

It is no new sea, returned Altamont; it is in every polar chart, and has a name already.

Shaked spoke in these generalities initially—referring to two sets of people, two polar opposites on a pendulum.

The world of the military is to the writer admittedly “the polar opposite” of his own.

I wonder if he's been frozen to death or eat up by polar bears, or what.