Unscramble POLES - 36 Words Found

Complete Definitions of Poles /pəʊlz/

Noun

1. Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
2. A type of basic fishing rod.
3. A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
4. (spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
5. A unit of length, equal to a rod (1/4 chain or 5 1/2 yards).

Synonyms: rod

Verb

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. To furnish with poles for support. — “to pole beans or hops”
4. To convey on poles. — “to pole hay into a barn”
5. To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

Noun

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. A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
4. A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
5. For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z) \rightarrow \infty as z \rightarrow a. — “The function f(z) = \frac{1}{z-3} has a single pole at z = 3”

Antonyms: zero

Verb

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