Engels Woord van de dag

pole

paal

Definities

Engels > Nederlands

pole

1. pool

2. paal

Engels > Engels

pole

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

2. n. (angling) A type of basic fishing rod.

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

4. n. (slang) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.

5. n. (historical) A unit of length, equal to a perch (¼ chain or 5½ yards).

6. n. (motor racing) Pole position.

7. n. (US, rap music slang) A gun.

8. v. 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.

9. v. To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.

He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.

10. v. To furnish with poles for support.

to pole beans or hops

11. v. To convey on poles.

to pole hay into a barn

12. v. To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

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

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

15. n. (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.

16. n. (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.

17. n. (complex analysis) For a meromorphic functionf(z), any pointa for whichf(z) \rightarrow \infty asz \rightarrow a.

The functionf(z) = \frac1z-3 has a single pole atz = 3.

18. n. (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.

19. n. Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.

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

Nederlands > Engels

paal

1. n-m. post, stake, pole, pile

2. n-m. (sports) goalpost

3. n-m. (heraldry) pale, perpendicular stripe

4. n-m. (euphemistic) erect phallus

5. n-m. an Indonesian measure of distance

6. n-f. peel, baker's instrument

7. adj. pale

8. adj. faded, discolored

9. v. imperative of palen

Uitspraak

Voorbeeldzinnen

This one sitting on the pole!
He had a long pole in his hand and asked me if I wanted to see his old scout staff.
Behind the bench, a few feet away and slightly to the left, is a single light pole with a dingy yellow bulb.
Her car swerved into a telephone pole and all I really saw after that was a huge wall of flames and a sky full of black smoke.
Like words, which grind up the concrete world every bit as effectively as your fire and bamboo pole.

Vorige woorden herzien

speaker	driveway	forty	bus stop
outside	pine	soft	swallow
pillow	eighty-nine	hallway	wood
yesterday	pole	stapler	jacket

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