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Synonyms for pole

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pohl
Phonetic Transcription : poÊŠl

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Définition of pole

Origin :
  • "stake," late Old English pal "stake, pole, post," a general Germanic borrowing (cf. Old Frisian and Old Saxon pal "stake," Middle Dutch pael, Dutch paal, Old High German pfal, Old Norse pall) from Latin palus "stake" (see pale (n.)).
  • Racing sense of "inside fence surrounding a course" is from 1851; pole position in auto racing attested from 1904. A ten-foot pole as a metaphoric measure of something one would not touch something (or someone) else with is by 1839, American English. The ten-foot pole was a common tool used to set stakes for fences, etc., and the phrase "Can't touch de bottom with a ten foot pole" is in the popular old minstrel show song "Camptown Races."
  • "I saw her eat.""No very unnatural occurrence I should think.""But she ate an onion!""Right my boy, right, never marry a woman who would touch an onion with a ten foot pole."["The Collegian," University of Virginia, 1839]
  • noun bar, post
Example sentences :
  • If the Pole is surrounded by water, it must be a visible point of land.
  • Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870 » by Various
  • The Pole being surrounded by water, must be reached by boats.
  • Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870 » by Various
  • If you will look outside, you will see a flag at the top of a pole.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • But we cannot set up a pendulum to swing at the pole of the earth.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 » by Various
  • The pole and the canopy of the hammock tangled inextricably its occupant.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • Who that has poached a pile does not gravitate there, as the needle to the pole?
  • Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 9, 1870 » by Various
  • Cook on the backs of the little mirrors hanging from the pole hooks!
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
  • I may almost say their temperature would be the same at the Equator as the Pole.
  • Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne
  • We can return after we have discovered the Pole quite as well as before, and even better.
  • Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne
  • But tell me, said Hatteras in a hurried manner; you were not bound for the Pole then yourself?
  • Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne
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