pole

Signification (Anglais)

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 construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
3. 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) 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. A pole position.
8. (US, slang) A rifle.
9. (slang, vulgar) A penis.

Verb

1. To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
2. To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
3. (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
4. (transitive) To convey on poles.
5. (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
6. (transitive) To strike (the ball) very hard.
7. (transitive) To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.

Verb

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

Concepts

pôle

perche

bâton

poteau

barre

piquet

gaule

mât

barreau

pieu

pilier

mât de cocagne

percer

pie

piquer

plate

pylône

sardine

terminal

baton

cercle polaire

jalon

pôle céleste

timon

piquer avec un dard

tangon

baguette

pôles célestes

brancard

branche

coudre

désinence

échalas

enfiler

🧵

enfoncer

fourche

incruster

insérer

Synonymes

rod

post

stick

staff

stake

shaft

pillar

bar

perch

column

club

cane

spar

stanchion

pile

terminal

punt

crowbar

mast

lever

sceptre

handle

beam

peg

picket

wand

cudgel

magnetic pole

stave

baton

electrode

canoe pole

wood

🪵

long stick

polar regions

walking stick

mace

tree

🌳

punt-pole

axle

celestial pole

side

scepter

prop

pale

log

axis

paddle

stem

divide

Traductions

polo

polo

Pol

poste

paal

Stange

palo

Stab

vara

πόλος

polo

pool

palo

Pfahl

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/pəʊl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: pole

Hérité de ancien anglais: pāl

Appartenant à écossais: pale

Appartenant à frison septentrional: pul

Appartenant à frison occidental: poal

Appartenant à néerlandais: paal

Appartenant à allemand: Pfahl

Appartenant à danois: pæl

Appartenant à suédois: påle

Appartenant à islandais: páll

Appartenant à ancien anglais: fæc

In summary

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”).