Définitions
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 construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
3.NounA type of basic fishing rod.
4.NounA long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
5.NounA telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
6.NounA unit of length, equal to a rod (⁄4 chain or 5+⁄2 yards).
7.NounA pole position.
8.NounA rifle.
9.NounA penis.
10.NounA wicket, especially in the context of the number of wickets taken by a particular bowler."Only three cricketers have taken all 10 poles in a Test innings."
11.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."
12.VerbTo identify something quite precisely using a telescope."He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity."
13.VerbTo furnish with poles for support."to pole beans or hops"
14.VerbTo convey on poles."to pole hay into a barn"
15.VerbTo stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
16.VerbTo strike (the ball) very hard.
17.VerbTo treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen."to pole copper"
18.NounEither of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
19.NounA point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
20.NounAny of a small set of extremes; especially, either of two extremes that are possible or available."In discussing alternatives to the polar extremes, Professor Nguyen mentioned two poles of a filthy floor versus a sterile surgical site."
21.NounA fixed point relative to other points or lines.
22.NounA contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
23.NounFor a meromorphic function
f
(
z
)
{\displaystyle f(z)}
, any point
a
{\displaystyle a}
for which
f
(
z
)
→
∞
{\displaystyle f(z)\rightarrow \infty }
as
z
→
a
{\displaystyle z\rightarrow a}
."The function
f
(
z
)
=
1
z
−
3
{\displaystyle f(z)={\frac {1}{z-3}}}
has a single pole at
z
=
3
{\displaystyle z=3}
."
24.NounThe firmament; the sky.
25.NounEither of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
26.VerbTo induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.