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pole

English

  1. 🔊 a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic
  2. 🔊 one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated
  3. 🔊 a long fiberglass sports implement used for pole vaulting
  4. 🔊 one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions
    “they are at opposite poles”
  5. 🔊 one of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface
  6. 🔊 one of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and the celestial sphere
  7. 🔊 a native or inhabitant of Poland
  8. 🔊 a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
  9. 🔊 a square rod of land
  10. 🔊 a linear measure of 16.5 feet
  11. 🔊 deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole
  12. 🔊 support on poles
    “pole climbing plants like beans”
  13. 🔊 propel with a pole
    “pole barges on the river”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 polo pole
  2. 🔊 pértiga pole
  3. 🔊 verga pole, rod (long and thin stick)

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