Definitions for pole

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pole pole

Spelling: [pohl]

IPA: /poʊl/

Pole is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in pole (elop).

Definitions for pole

noun

1. a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.:
2. Northeastern U.S. a long, tapering piece of wood or other material that extends from the front axle of a vehicle between the animals drawing it.
3. Nautical. a light spar. that part of a mast between the uppermost standing rigging and the truck.
4. the lane of a racetrack nearest to the infield; the inside lane. Compare post1 (def 5).
5. a unit of length equal to 16½ feet (5 meters); a rod.
6. a square rod, 30¼ square yards (25.3 sq. m).
7. each of the extremities of the axis of the earth or of any spherical body.
8. Astronomy. celestial pole.
9. one of two opposite or contrasted principles or tendencies:
10. a point of concentration of interest, attention, etc.:
11. Electricity, Magnetism. either of the two regions or parts of an electric battery, magnet, or the like, that exhibits electrical or magnetic polarity.
12. Cell Biology. either end of an ideal axis in a nucleus, cell, or ovum, about which parts are more or less symmetrically arranged. either end of a spindle-shaped figure formed in a cell during mitosis. the place at which a cell extension or process begins, as a nerve cell axon or a flagellum.
13. Mathematics. a singular point at which a given function of a complex variable can be expanded in a Laurent series beginning with a specified finite, negative power of the variable. origin (def 6b).
14. Crystallography. a line perpendicular to a crystal face and passing through the crystal center.
15. a native or inhabitant of Poland.
16. Reginald, 1500–58, English cardinal and last Roman Catholic archbishop of Canterbury.

Idioms

1. under bare poles, Nautical. (of a sailing ship) with no sails set, as during a violent storm. stripped; naked; destitute:
2. poles apart / asunder, having widely divergent or completely opposite attitudes, interests, etc.:

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with poles.
2. to push, strike, or propel with a pole:
3. Baseball. to make (an extra-base hit) by batting the ball hard and far:
4. Metallurgy. to stir (molten metal, as copper, tin, or zinc) with poles of green wood so as to produce carbon, which reacts with the oxygen present to effect deoxidation.

verb (used without object)

1. to propel a boat, raft, etc., with a pole:

Origin of pole

before 1050; Middle English; Old English pāl Latin pālus stake. See pale²

Examples for pole

Both political parties, and the President, have moved too close to the “standing alone” pole.

If you will look outside, you will see a flag at the top of a pole.

“John Paul to a pole is like St. Patrick to the Irish,” she said.

It seems to me that both sides need to move toward the “staying connected” pole.

The pole and the canopy of the hammock tangled inextricably its occupant.

If the pole is surrounded by water, it must be a visible point of land.

But we cannot set up a pendulum to swing at the pole of the earth.

The pole being surrounded by water, must be reached by boats.

Gozik watched as the MPs used garrison belts to tie the condemned man to the pole.

Occasionally a pamphlet for a salsa class might be tossed on a doorstop or stuck on a pole near a bus stop.