Meaning of "pole" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD POLE

Old English pāl, from Latin pālus a stake, prop.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF POLE

pole  [pəʊl]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POLE

Pole is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb pole in English.

WHAT DOES POLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pole in the English dictionary

The first definition of pole in the dictionary is a long slender usually round piece of wood, metal, or other material. Other definition of pole is the piece of timber on each side of which a pair of carriage horses are hitched. Pole is also the inside lane of a racecourse.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO POLE

PRESENT

Present

I pole

you pole

he/she/it poles

we pole

you pole

they pole

Present continuous

I am poling

you are poling

he/she/it is poling

we are poling

you are poling

they are poling

Present perfect

I have poled

you have poled

he/she/it has poled

we have poled

you have poled

they have poled

Present perfect continuous

I have been poling

you have been poling

he/she/it has been poling

we have been poling

you have been poling

they have been poling

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I poled

you poled

he/she/it poled

we poled

you poled

they poled

Past continuous

I was poling

you were poling

he/she/it was poling

we were poling

you were poling

they were poling

Past perfect

I had poled

you had poled

he/she/it had poled

we had poled

you had poled

they had poled

Past perfect continuous

I had been poling

you had been poling

he/she/it had been poling

we had been poling

you had been poling

they had been poling

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will pole

you will pole

he/she/it will pole

we will pole

you will pole

they will pole

Future continuous

I will be poling

you will be poling

he/she/it will be poling

we will be poling

you will be poling

they will be poling

Future perfect

I will have poled

you will have poled

he/she/it will have poled

we will have poled

you will have poled

they will have poled

Future perfect continuous

I will have been poling

you will have been poling

he/she/it will have been poling

we will have been poling

you will have been poling

they will have been poling

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would pole

you would pole

he/she/it would pole

we would pole

you would pole

they would pole

Conditional continuous

I would be poling

you would be poling

he/she/it would be poling

we would be poling

you would be poling

they would be poling

Conditional perfect

I would have pole

you would have pole

he/she/it would have pole

we would have pole

you would have pole

they would have pole

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been poling

you would have been poling

he/she/it would have been poling

we would have been poling

you would have been poling

they would have been poling

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you pole
we let´s pole
you pole

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to pole

Past participle

poled

Present Participle

poling

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «POLE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pole» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of pole

antipode · bar · extremity · limit · mast · paling · picket · pillar · post · rod · shaft · spar · staff · stake · standard · stave · stick · support · terminus · upright

TRANSLATION OF POLE

Find out the translation of pole to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of pole from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pole» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 杆
• Translator English - Spanish: poste
• English: pole
• Translator English - Hindi: पोल
• Translator English - Arabic: عَمُود
• Translator English - Russian: шест
• Translator English - Portuguese: mastro
• Translator English - Bengali: পোল্ডারের
• Translator English - French: étai
• Translator English - Malay: Polder
• Translator English - German: Stange
• Translator English - Japanese: 棒
• Translator English - Korean: 장대
• Translator English - Javanese: Polder
• Translator English - Vietnamese: cọc
• Translator English - Tamil: போல்டர்
• Translator English - Marathi: पल्सर
• Translator English - Turkish: deniz seviyesinin altında ekime elverişli toprak
• Translator English - Italian: polo
• Translator English - Polish: pole
• Translator English - Ukrainian: жердина
• Translator English - Romanian: stâlp
• Translator English - Greek: πάσσαλος
• Translator English - Afrikaans: paal
• Translator English - Swedish: stolpe
• Translator English - Norwegian: stolpe

10 QUOTES WITH «POLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pole.

1

Peter Ackroyd

His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr.

2

Buck Baker

Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.

3

Andrew Bogut

You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.

4

Barton Booth

True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

5

Louise Bourgeois

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

6

Marlon Brando

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

7

Sergei Bubka

The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.

8

Sergei Bubka

I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches.

9

Sergei Bubka

The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.

10

Sergei Bubka

We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to this day. The club and school exist.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLE»

Discover the use of pole in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pole and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Pole To Pole

' Michael Palin's adventure begins when he is enrolled in the Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society... Travelling by train, truck, raft, Ski-Doo, barge, balloon and bicycle, Michael Palin experiences every extreme the world has to offer.

Michael Palin, 2010

I Am A Pole (And So Can You!)

"The sad thing is, I like it" - Maurice Sendak "The perfect gift to give a child or grandchild for their high school or college graduation. Also Father's Day. Also, other times." - Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert, 2012

The South Pole

Account of the thrilling race to the south pole. With an introduction by Fridtjof Nansen.

Roald Amundsen, 2010

Wood Pole Overhead Lines

Sag/tension calculations are explained, and details of the latest work on safe design tension limits to avoid conductor fatigue from vibration are included.

Brian Wareing, 2005

Reginald Pole: Prince and Prophet

A life of Reginald Pole (1500-1558), among the most important of sixteenth-century international notables.

Thomas F. Mayer, 2000

Practical Pole Building Construction

Seddon has given his book the extra dimension of original plans for a lean-to barn, horse barn, hillside house, garage/wood shed, mountain pole cabin, and a coastal house.

Leigh Seddon, 1985

Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns whispers with a bold and unforgettable internal voice rich with the kind of questioning that inspires action. Andrea Gibson does not just show up to pluck your heart strings, she sticks around to tune them.

Andrea Gibson (poet.), Andrea Gibson, Poe, 2013

Heresy and Obedience in Tridentine Italy: Cardinal Pole and ...

This book is a study of his career in Italy, his involvement in the Council of Trent and his share in the vain attempt to obtain reunification with the Protestants.

Dermot Fenlon, 1972

Applied Bayesian Forecasting and Time Series Analysis

Accessible to undergraduates, this unique volume also offers complete guidelines valuable to researchers, practitioners, and advanced students in statistics, operations research, and engineering.

Andy Pole, Mike West, Jeff Harrison, 1994

The Correspondence of Reginald Pole: A biographical ...

This, the fourth volume in the series, provides a biographical companion to all persons in the British Isles mentioned in his correspondence, and constitutes a major research tool in its own right.

Reginald Pole, Thomas Frederick Mayer, Courtney B. Walters, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pole is used in the context of the following news items.

Pole Position For Fitness

It is an art that has been taken out of the realms of male fantasy and into the world of women's fitness. Pole dancing is no longer the preserve of ... «South Wales Evening Post, Jul 15»

Meet the pole dancer who can still hang upside down - aged 61

Retired nurse Kathryn Ladlow took up pole gymnastics ten years ago when she was looking for a new fit routine. Now she is trying to recruit an ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»

19-year-old woman killed after car slams into pole in New Springville

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – A 19-year-old woman is dead and two others are injured after, witnesses say, a car slammed into a pole on Richmond ... «SILive.com, Jul 15»

UPDATE | Power restored after car hitting pole causes outages

A car hit a pole out there and knocked out power for about a thousand people. Around 8:30 a.m., 58 residents were out of power, according to ... «WRDW-TV, Jul 15»

Man distracted by kittens hits pole in south Nashville

NASHVILLE, Ten. (WKRN) – A man crashed his car into a pole early Monday morning in south Nashville after kittens inside his car distracted ... «WKRN.com, Jul 15»

Semi hits pole in West Nashville closing 46th Avenue for hours

Police on scene told News 2, that the Nashville Electric Service notified them that it could take until Noon to fix the pole and get that portion of ... «WKRN.com, Jul 15»

Truck crashes into utility pole, killed one in Crosby area

Authorities say a truck crashed into a Crosby-area utility pole pole Monday ... into a tree and utility pole in the 14000 block of Crosby Lynchburg. «KTRK-TV, Jul 15»

Vehicle hits pole, winds up in canal in St. Bernard

A vehicle hit a pole Monday morning, July 27, 2015, in the 1400 block of Bayou Road in eastern St. Bernard and wound up in the canal, but the ... «NOLA.com, Jul 15»

Five robbers barge into Harrisburg home swinging wooden pole and …

Harrisburg police are investigating after five men barged into a rooming house in the 1700 block of Market Street and beat a man with a ... «PennLive.com, Jul 15»

Montreal police officer's threat to tie homeless man to pole ruled …

Then he tells the man he will tie him to a pole for an hour if he gets another complaint about his panhandling. In its decision released Monday, ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»