Pole (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.: a telephone pole; a fishing pole.
  2. 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.
  5. a unit of length equal to 16½ feet (5 meters); a rod.
  6. a square rod, 30¼ square yards (25.3 square meters).
verb (used with object), poled, pol·ing.
  1. to furnish with poles.
  2. to push, strike, or propel with a pole: to pole a raft.
  3. to make (an extra-base hit) by batting the ball hard and far: He poled a triple to deep right-center.
  4. 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), poled, pol·ing.
  1. to propel a boat, raft, etc., with a pole: to pole down the river.
Idioms
  1. under bare poles,
    • (of a sailing ship) with no sails set, as during a violent storm.
    • stripped; naked; destitute: The thugs robbed him and left him under bare poles.
noun
  1. each of the extremities of the axis of the earth or of any spherical body.
  2. celestial pole.
  3. one of two opposite or contrasted principles or tendencies: His behavior ranges between the poles of restraint and abandon.
  4. a point of concentration of interest, attention, etc.:The beautiful actress was the pole of everyone's curiosity.
  5. either of the two regions or parts of an electric battery, magnet, or the like, that exhibits electrical or magnetic polarity.
  6. 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.
  7. 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).
  8. a line perpendicular to a crystal face and passing through the crystal center.
Idioms
  1. having widely divergent or completely opposite attitudes, interests, etc.: In education and background they were poles apart.
noun
  1. a native or inhabitant of Poland.
noun
  1. English cardinal and last Roman Catholic archbishop of Canterbury.
noun
  1. a long slender usually round piece of wood, metal, or other material
  2. the piece of timber on each side of which a pair of carriage horses are hitched
  3. another name for rod (def. 7)
  4. horse racing, mainly US and Canadian
    • the inside lane of a racecourse
    • (as modifier)
    • one of a number of markers placed at intervals of one sixteenth of a mile along the side of a racecourse
  5. nautical
    • any light spar
    • the part of a mast between the head and the attachment of the uppermost shrouds
  6. (of a sailing vessel) with no sails set
  7. up the pole British, Australian and NZ informal
    • slightly mad
    • mistaken; on the wrong track
verb
  1. to strike or push with a pole
  2. (tr)
    • to set out (an area of land or garden) with poles
    • to support (a crop, such as hops or beans) on poles
  3. to deoxidize (a molten metal, esp copper) by stirring it with green wood
  4. to punt (a boat)
noun
  1. either of the two antipodal points where the earth's axis of rotation meets the earth's surface
  2. astronomy short for celestial pole
  3. physics
    • either of the two regions at the extremities of a magnet to which the lines of force converge or from which they diverge
    • either of two points or regions in a piece of material, system, etc, at which there are opposite electric charges, as at the two terminals of a battery
  4. an isolated singularity of an analytical function
  5. biology
    • either end of the axis of a cell, spore, ovum, or similar body
    • either end of the spindle formed during the metaphase of mitosis and meiosis
  6. the point on a neuron from which the axon or dendrites project from the cell body
  7. either of two mutually exclusive or opposite actions, opinions, etc
  8. the origin in a system of polar or spherical coordinates
  9. any fixed point of reference
  10. having widely divergent opinions, tastes, etc
  11. throughout the entire world
noun
  1. a native, inhabitant, or citizen of Poland or a speaker of Polish
noun
  1. Reginald. 1500–58, English cardinal; last Roman Catholic archbishop of Canterbury (1556–58)
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