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See also: Appendix:Variations of "pole"

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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, interval; lustrum”).

Noun

pole (plural poles)

  1. Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
    • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
      For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
  2. A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
    Synonyms: carriage pole, beam, shaft, drawbar
    Meronyms: pole-guard, pole-hook, pole-hound, pole-pad, pole-pin, pole-pin-strap, pole-plate, pole-ring, pole-screen, pole-socket, pole-stop, pole-strap
  3. (fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
  4. 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. (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
  6. (historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (1⁄4 chain or 5+1⁄2 yards).
  7. (motor racing) A pole position.
  8. (US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A rifle.
  9. (vulgar, slang) A penis.
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Verb

pole (third-person singular simple present poles, present participle poling, simple past and past participle poled)

  1. 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.
  2. To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
    He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.
  3. (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
    to pole beans or hops
  4. (transitive) To convey on poles.
    to pole hay into a barn
  5. (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
  6. (transitive, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.
    • 2007, Tony Silvia, Baseball Over the Air:
      Long had poled the ball into the lower deck in right center.
  7. (transitive, metallurgy) To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.
    to pole copper
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Etymology 2

From Middle French pole, pôle, from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

Noun

pole (plural poles)

  1. Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
  2. A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
  3. (figuratively, by extension) Any 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.
  4. (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
  6. (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
  7. (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function , any point for which as .
    The function has a single pole at .
  8. (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
  9. Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of “complex analysis”): zero
Derived terms
Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)
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Verb

pole (third-person singular simple present poles, present participle poling, simple past and past participle poled)

  1. (transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.

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Verb

pole

  1. to work (in a garden or field)

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Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German boln.

Verb

pole

  1. (Uri) to make noise, clatter, rumble

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Czech

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech pole, from Proto-Slavic *poľe.

Pronunciation

Noun

pole n

  1. (agriculture) field
  2. (physics) field
  3. (algebra) field
    Synonym: komutativní těleso
  4. (computing) field
  5. (programming) array

Declension

Declension of pole (soft neuter)
More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpole/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ole
  • Hyphenation: po‧le

Adverb

pole

  1. in Polish

Estonian

Etymology

Contraction of ep ole (Modern: ei ole). ep is the old 3rd person singular form of the negative verb.

Verb

pole

  1. contraction of ei ole

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin pollen.

Noun

pole m (plural poles)

  1. pollen
  2. (motor racing) pole position
Synonyms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pole

  1. third-person singular present indicative of pulir

Latin

Noun

pole

  1. vocative singular of polus

References

  • "pole", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “pole”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English pāl, from Latin pālus.

Pronunciation

Noun

pole (plural poles)

  1. pole, stake, staff

Descendants

  • English: pole
  • Scots: pale, pall
  • Yola: pulmere

References

Nubi

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili pole.

Interjection

póle

  1. sorry
    pole ma kasul!
    sorry for washing (the clothes)!

References

  • Wellens, Ineke (2005), The Nubi Language of Uganda: an Arabic Creole in Africa, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →ISBN

Old Czech

Alternative forms

  • poľe (alternative writing)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pȍľe.

Pronunciation

Noun

pole n

  1. field (land area; wide open space)
    polem / na poli ― outside
    přěs pole přějěti/jězditi ― to have sex
  2. plain
  3. battlefield, battleground
    polem / v poli ležěti ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Declension

Declension of pole (soft o-stem)
More information singular, dual ...
This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.

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Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pȍľe. First attested in 1250.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /pɔlʲɛ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /pɔlʲɛ/

Noun

pole n (related adjective polny)

  1. field (arable land)
    • 1930 [c. 1455], “Ex”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)‎, 9, 25:
      Zbyl gest grad we wszey szemy egipskyey wszitko, czsosz bilo na polyech (in agris)
      [Zbił jest grad we wszej ziemi ejipskiej wszytko, csoż było na polech (in agris)]
    • 1962 [c. 1420], Stanisław Urbańczyk, editor, Wokabularz trydencki‎, number 7:
      Rus pole, inde rusticus
      [Rus pole, inde rusticus]
  2. (figuratively, attested in Sieradz-Łęczyca, Greater Poland) crops from a field
  3. (attested in Lesser Poland) field (open land)
    • 1930 [c. 1455], “Gen”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)‎, 4, 8:
      A gdisz na polu (in agro) bilasta, podnosl szø Kayn ku Ablowy
      [A gdyż na polu (in agro) byłasta, podniosł się Kain ku Ablowi]
    • 1962-1975 [1439], Stanisław Kuraś, Irena Sułkowska-Kuraś, editors, Zbiór dokumentów małopolskich [A collection of documents from Lesser Poland]‎, volume II, Lesser Poland, page 311:
      Quia ex recognicione fratrum predictorum... cessit castrum Bankowecz cum villis..., item in campo al. w polyu ville Gebolthow, et utraque Cowalicow, Maloschow... de his fratri predicto iuniori cesserunt
      [Quia ex recognicione fratrum predictorum... cessit castrum Bąkowiec cum villis..., item in campo al. w polu ville Giebołtow, et utraque Kowalikow, Małoszow... de his fratri predicto iuniori cesserunt]
    • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎, Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 131, 6:
      Naleszly gesmy gy w polech (in campis) lassa
      [Naleźli jeśmy ji w polech (in campis) lasa]
    • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎, Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 103, 12:
      Pycz bødzye wszytek zwyerz pola (agri)
      [Pić będzie wszytek źwierz pola (agri)]
  4. (attested in Masovia) campsite; battlefield
  5. outside (area not in a building)
    • Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa‎, page 132:
      Vyschly na polye (ad campum), nalyezly Yesvsa chodzącz y tam, y szam
      [Wyszli na pole i naleźli Jesusa chodząc i tam i sam]
  6. (heraldry) background
    • 1856-1870 [1455], Antoni Zygmunt Helcel, editor, Starodawne Prawa Polskiego Pomniki‎, volume VII, number 610:
      Niccolaus post awam suam est de sangwine et armis ipsorum dictis Stanczowye, proclamacio autem ipsorum Nabra, deferentes in clipeo tres lineas vlg. trzy *polye in longitudine clipei
      [Niccolaus post awam suam est de sangwine et armis ipsorum dictis Stańcowie, proclamacio autem ipsorum Nabra, deferentes in clipeo tres lineas vlg. trzy pola in longitudine clipei5]
  7. (attested in Greater Poland) corruption of opole
    • 1840 [1252], Edward Raczyński, editor, Kodex dyplomatyczny Wielkiej Polski zawierający bulle papieżów, nadania książąt, przywileje miast, klasztorów i wsi, wraz z innemi podobnej treści dyplomatami tyczącemi się historyi tej prowincyi od roku 1136 do roku 1597‎, Greater Poland, page 257:
      Dedimus omnimodam libertatem... a podworowe, ab pole, a bove et vacca annuali
      [Dedimus omnimodam libertatem... a podworowe, ab pole, a bove et vacca annuali]

Derived terms

nouns
  • czyste pole
  • przasne pole
  • płone pola
verbs
  • pole gonić impf

Descendants

References

  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “pole”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • Mańczak, Witold (2017), “pole”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  • Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “pole”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “pole”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

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