Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word POLE

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Definitions of POLE

1. Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
2. A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
3. To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
4. To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
5. Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
6. A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
7. Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
8. A person from Poland or of Polish descent.
9. A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
10. (angling) A type of basic fishing rod.
11. (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
12. (historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod ( chain or yards).
13. (motor racing) Pole position.
14. (US, AAVE, slang) A rifle.
15. (vulgar, slang) A penis.
16. (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
17. (transitive) To convey on poles.
18. (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
19. (transitive, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.
20. (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
21. (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
22. (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function , any point for which as .
23. (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
24. (transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
25. A surname.

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Examples of Using POLE in a Sentence

• 1513 – Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.
• The Antarctic continent, located in the Earth's southern hemisphere, is centered asymmetrically around the South Pole and largely south of the Antarctic Circle.
• Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is an ocean current that flows clockwise (as seen from the South Pole) from west to east around Antarctica.
• Other towns include North Pole, just southeast of Fairbanks, Eagle, Tok, Glennallen, Delta Junction, Nenana, Anderson, Healy and Cantwell.
• A home run is usually achieved by hitting the ball over the outfield fence between the foul poles (or hitting either foul pole) without the ball touching the field.
• In ringboll one could score points by throwing the ball through a ring that was attached to a 3 m pole.
• Latitude is given as an angle that ranges from −90° at the south pole to 90° at the north pole, with 0° at the Equator.
• Meridians are imaginary semicircular lines running from pole to pole that connect points with the same longitude.
• The metre was originally defined in 1791 by the French National Assembly as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle, so the Earth's polar circumference is approximately.
• At the time of his retirement, Schumacher held the records for most wins (91), pole positions (68), and podium finishes (155), while he maintains the record for most fastest laps (77), among others.
• The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole, Terrestrial North Pole or 90th Parallel North, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.
• She is of partial Polish descent, for her grandfather Bruno Nakszynski was a Germanized ethnic Pole.
• For other planets in the Solar System, north is defined as being in the same celestial hemisphere relative to the invariable plane of the Solar System as Earth's North Pole.
• The centers of both the Water Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere, as well as the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, are in the Pacific Ocean.
• It is designated α Ursae Minoris (Latinized to Alpha Ursae Minoris) and is commonly called the North Star or Pole Star.
• Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar.
• A polearm or pole weapon is a close combat weapon in which the main fighting part of the weapon is fitted to the end of a long shaft, typically of wood, extending the user's effective range and striking power.
• The reference point (analogous to the origin of a Cartesian coordinate system) is called the pole, and the ray from the pole in the reference direction is the polar axis.
• It's bordered on the Black Sea, the country is halfway between the equator and the North Pole and equidistant from the westernmost part of Europe—the Atlantic Coast—and the most easterly—the Ural Mountains.
• On the first expedition, he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Antarctic Plateau, on which the South Pole is located.
• A relatively inconspicuous star in the night sky of the Northern Hemisphere, it is historically significant as having been the north pole star from the 4th to 2nd millennium BC.
• Ursa Minor has traditionally been important for navigation, particularly by mariners, because of Polaris being the north pole star.
• Vega was the northern pole star around 12,000 BCE and will be so again around the year 13,727, when its declination will be.
• The moment of winter solstice is when the Sun's elevation with respect to the North or South Pole is at its most negative value; that is, the Sun is at its farthest below the horizon as measured from the pole.
• January 4 – Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Robert Falcon Scott's British Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole arrives in the Antarctic and establishes a base camp at Cape Evans on Ross Island.

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