Usually means: Extremity of an axis; rod.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pole, pole: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Pole, pole, pole, pole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Pole, pole, pole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pole: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Pole, pole: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pole, pole: Wordnik
  7. Pole, pole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Pole, pole: Wiktionary
  9. pole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Pole, pole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pole: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pole: Dictionary.com
  13. Pole (3), pole (1), pole (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pole: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. POLE (gene), POLE, Pole (Stockhausen), Pole (complex analysis), Pole (geometry), Pole (mathematics), Pole (musician), Pole (surname), Pole (surveying), Pole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pole: Rhymezone
  19. pole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pole: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pole: Free Dictionary
  22. pole: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. pole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Pole: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Pole: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. pole: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)
  3. -pole: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  4. Pole: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Pole (disambiguation), Pole (object), pole: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pole (disambiguation), Pole (electricity and magnetism), Pole (object), pole: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Pole (disambiguation), Pole (object), pole: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. POLE: Acronym Finder
  4. pole: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Pole: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. pole, pole, pole, pole: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  5. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pole (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. pole, pole: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. The Pole: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Pole: Sports Definitions

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. pole: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. pole: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. POLE: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  5. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  6. Pole: Data Acquisition
  7. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  8. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  9. Pole: Latitude Mexico
  10. POLE: Power Engineering

(Note: See poled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
noun:  A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
noun:  (fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
noun:  A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
noun:  (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
noun:  (historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
noun:  (motor racing) A pole position.
noun:  (US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A rifle.
noun:  (vulgar, slang) A penis.
verb:  To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
verb:  To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
verb:  (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
verb:  (transitive) To convey on poles.
verb:  (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
verb:  (transitive, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.
verb:  (transitive, metallurgy) To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.
noun:  Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
noun:  A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
noun:  (figuratively, by extension) Any of a small set of extremes; especially, either of two extremes that are possible or available.
noun:  (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
noun:  (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
noun:  (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.
noun:  (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
noun:  Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
verb:  (transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
noun:  A person from Poland or of Polish descent.
noun:  A surname.

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