Polenoun詞源 1/pəʊl/

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  A person from Poland or of Polish descent.

  • The Poles are well dressed, handsome, and somehow on a larger scale than their surroundings, as if they have grown since the war and Poland itself has not.

Polename詞源 2/pəʊl/

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  A surname.

polenoun詞源 1/pəʊl/

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  Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.

  • For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
  • There she was, walking around with an IV pole, and we were only told that "Mommy isn't feeling so well, so she has to be connected to a special soda."
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  A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.

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  fishinghobbieslifestyleA type of basic fishing rod.

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  A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.

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  slangA telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.

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  historicalA unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).

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  hobbieslifestylemotor-racingA pole position.

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  slangA rifle.

poleverb詞源 1/pəʊl/

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  To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.

  • Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.
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  To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.

  • He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.
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  To furnish with poles for support.

  • to pole beans or hops
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  To convey on poles.

  • to pole hay into a barn
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  To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

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  ball-gamesbaseballgamesTo strike (the ball) very hard.

  • Long had poled the ball into the lower deck in right center.
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  engineeringmetallurgynatural-sciencesTo treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.

  • to pole copper

polenoun詞源 2/pəʊl/

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  Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.

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  A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).

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  Any of a small set of extremes; especially, either of two extremes that are possible or available.

  • In discussing alternatives to the polar extremes, Professor Nguyen mentioned two poles of a filthy floor versus a sterile surgical site.
  • Genuine music is the offspring of profound emotion: of exaltation, pain, or joy. Music produced outside of a situation between these poles of the human heart is of banal character, bloodless, watery.
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  geometrymathematicssciencesA fixed point relative to other points or lines.

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  businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityA contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.

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  complex-analysismathematicssciencesFor a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.

  • The function f(z)#61;#92;frac#123;1#125;#123;z-3#125; has a single pole at z#61;3.
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  obsoleteThe firmament; the sky.

  • And the slope sun his upward beam / Shoots against the dusky pole,
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  Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.

poleverb詞源 2/pəʊl/

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  To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.