pole
pole is a 4-letter English word with 25 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.
- noun. A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.
- noun. A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5/ yards, or a square measure equal to 30/ square yards; a rod; a perch.
- transitive verb. To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops.
- transitive verb. To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.
- transitive verb. To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.
- transitive verb. To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
- noun. Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.
- noun. A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian.
- noun. One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle.
- noun. The firmament; the sky.
- noun. See Polarity, and Polar, n.
- noun. a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic
- noun. one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated
- noun. a long fiberglass sports implement used for pole vaulting
- noun. a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
- noun. one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions
"they are at opposite poles"
"they are poles apart"
- noun. one of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface
- noun. one of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and the celestial sphere
- noun. a native or inhabitant of Poland
- noun. a square rod of land
- noun. a linear measure of 16.5 feet
- verb. deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole
- verb. support on poles
"pole climbing plants like beans"
- verb. propel with a pole
"pole barges on the river"
"We went punting in Cambridge"
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Common word forms
poled, poler, poles, poling, poleless
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