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pole
has definitions from the fields of physics,sport,electricity,geography,astronomy,chemistry
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[ noun ] a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic
Used in print ("Editorials"...)The head was then fixed on a pole at Westminster , and the rest of the body was buried under the gallows . (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)Early equipment was very flimsy ; the smallest gusts of wind toppled poles , making communications impossible . Eber_L._Taylor of Manchester_Depot recorded the setting of phone poles in East_Dorset and Barnumville in his diary for 1906 . Related terms rod boom clothes_tree mast caber ski_pole spar stilt barge_pole |
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[ noun ] a native or inhabitant of Poland
Used in print (Leon Uris, Mila 8....)Before he went_into battle Andrei had told Alex , `` I only want to be a Pole . They were not Poles . Until I was transferred into the Seventh_Ulanys I was like every other Pole in my feeling about Jews . What I mean is , he was a Pole and the greatest soldier in the Ulanys . |
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[ noun ] one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions
Examples "they are at opposite poles" or "they are poles apart" Used in print (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism , because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson , who held that the best government was the least government . Related terms |
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[ verb ] propel with a pole
Synonyms Examples "pole barges on the river" "We went punting in Cambridge" Used in print (Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)Or maybe poling up the south fork of the Forked_Deer_River braving the wastes dumped in it ? Maybe I saw him on a barge with a gang of Ethiopians poling it '' . |
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[ noun ] (physics,electricity) a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
Synonyms Related terms contact electrical_device positive_pole anode negative_pole battery electrical_device |
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[ noun ] (geography) one of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface
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[ noun ] (astronomy) one of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and the celestial sphere
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[ verb ] (chemistry) deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole
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[ verb ] support on poles, of climbing plants, such as beans
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[ noun ] (sport) a long fiberglass sports implement used for pole vaulting
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[ noun ] (physics) one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated
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