| Pole | |
| 1. n. A person from Poland or of Polish descent. | |
| 2. n. Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes. | |
| 3. n. (angling) A type of basic fishing rod. | |
| 4. 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. | |
| 5. n. (slang) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife. | |
| 6. n. (historical) A unit of length, equal to a perch (¼ chain or 5½ yards). | |
| 7. n. (motor racing) Pole position. | |
| 8. n. (US, rap music slang) A gun. | |
| 9. 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. | |
| 10. v. To identify something quite precisely using a telescope. | |
| He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity. | |
| 11. v. To furnish with poles for support. | |
| to pole beans or hops | |
| 12. v. To convey on poles. | |
| to pole hay into a barn | |
| 13. v. To stir, as molten glass, with a pole. | |
| 14. n. Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object. | |
| 15. n. A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south). | |
| 16. n. (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines. | |
| 17. n. (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves. | |
| 18. 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. | |
| 19. n. (obsolete) The firmament; the sky. | |
| 20. n. Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder. | |
| 21. v. To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles. | |
