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      pole
      noun
      Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
      A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
      (fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
      A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
      (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
      (motor racing) A pole position.
      (US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A rifle.
      (vulgar, slang) A penis.
      Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
      A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
      (figuratively, by extension) Any of a small set of extremes; especially, either of two extremes that are possible or available.
      (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
      (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
      (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.
      Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
      A person from Poland or of Polish descent.
      A surname.
      (historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
      (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
      verb
      To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
      To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
      (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
      (transitive) To convey on poles.
      (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
      (transitive, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.
      (transitive, metallurgy) To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.
      (transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
      Roots
      polospol- · Greek · axis, pole
      Synonyms for pole
      rodnpylonnmastnstanchionnpolaritynmaypolen
      Words related to pole
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