pole

CEFRB1

/pəʊl/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A long thin straight piece of wood or metal.

  2. 02

    noun

    Either of the two ends of a planet's axis.

Examples

  • Even after it was hit, the pole was still upright.

  • We credit Peary with having discovered the North Pole.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [pʰɒʊɫ]
  • [pʰoʊɫ]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.

  2. A type of basic fishing rod.

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

More examples

In context

  • The engineer climbed the telephone pole.

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

  • Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English pole, pal, from Old English pāl (“a pole, stake, post; a kind of hoe or spade”), from Proto-West Germanic *pāl (“pole”), from Latin pālus (“stake, pale, prop, stay”), perhaps from Old Latin *paxlos, from Proto-Italic *pākslos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to nail, fasten”). Doublet of peel, pale, and palus. Cognates Cognate with Scots pale, paill (“stake, pale”), North Frisian pul, pil (“stake, pale”), Saterland Frisian Pool (“pole”), West Frisian poal (“pole”), Dutch paal (“pole”), German Pfahl (“pile, stake, post, pole”), Danish pæl (“pole”), Swedish påle (“pole”), Icelandic páll (“hoe, spade, pale”), Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, i...