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1.nounOriginally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
2.nounA type of basic fishing rod.
3.nounA long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
4.noun(spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
5.nounA unit of length, equal to a rod (1/4 chain or 5 1/2 yards).
6.nounPole position.
7.nounA gun.
8.nounA penis
9.verbTo 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.verbTo identify something quite precisely using a telescope."He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity."
11.verbTo furnish with poles for support."to pole beans or hops"
12.verbTo convey on poles."to pole hay into a barn"
13.verbTo stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
14.verbTo strike (the ball) very hard.
15.nounEither of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
16.nounA point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
17.nounA fixed point relative to other points or lines.
18.nounA contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
19.nounFor a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z) \rightarrow \infty as z \rightarrow a."The function f(z) = \frac{1}{z-3} has a single pole at z = 3"
20.nounThe firmament; the sky.
21.nounEither of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
22.verbTo induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.