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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pole \Pole\, n. [Cf. G. Pole a Pole, Polen Poland.]
   A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.

Pole \Pole\, n. [As. p[=a]l, L. palus, akin to pangere to make
   fast. Cf. {Pale} a stake, {Pact}.]
   1. A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of
      timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been
      removed; as, specifically:
      (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front
          axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which
          the carriage is guided and held back.
      (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported.
      (c) A Maypole. See {Maypole}.
      (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a
          sign by barbers and hairdressers.
      (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines,
          are trained.

   2. A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5?
      yards, or a square measure equal to 30? square yards; a
      rod; a perch. --Bacon.

   {Pole bean} (Bot.), any kind of bean which is customarily
      trained on poles, as the scarlet runner or the Lima bean.
      

   {Pole flounder} (Zo["o]l.), a large deep-water flounder
      ({Glyptocephalus cynoglossus}), native of the northern
      coasts of Europe and America, and much esteemed as a food
      fish; -- called also {craig flounder}, and {pole fluke}.
      

   {Pole lathe}, a simple form of lathe, or a substitute for a
      lathe, in which the work is turned by means of a cord
      passing around it, one end being fastened to the treadle,
      and the other to an elastic pole above.

   {Pole mast} (Naut.), a mast formed from a single piece or
      from a single tree.

   {Pole of a lens} (Opt.), the point where the principal axis
      meets the surface.

   {Pole plate} (Arch.), a horizontal timber resting on the
      tiebeams of a roof and receiving the ends of the rafters.
      It differs from the plate in not resting on the wall.

Pole \Pole\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Poling}.]
   1. To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or
      hops.

   2. To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.

   3. To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.

   4. To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

Pole \Pole\, n. [L. polus, Gr. ? a pivot or hinge on which
   anything turns, an axis, a pole; akin to ? to move: cf. F.
   p[^o]le.]
   1. Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one
      of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north
      pole.

   2. (Spherics) A point upon the surface of a sphere equally
      distant from every part of the circumference of a great
      circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere
      perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the
      surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle;
      as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the
      pole of a given meridian.

   3. (Physics) One of the opposite or contrasted parts or
      directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point
      of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points,
      or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the
      north pole of a needle.

   4. The firmament; the sky. [Poetic]

            Shoots against the dusky pole.        --Milton.

   5. (Geom.) See {Polarity}, and {Polar}, n.

   {Magnetic pole}. See under {Magnetic}.

   {Poles of the earth}, or {Terrestrial poles} (Geog.), the two
      opposite points on the earth's surface through which its
      axis passes.

   {Poles of the heavens}, or {Celestial poles}, the two
      opposite points in the celestial sphere which coincide
      with the earth's axis produced, and about which the
      heavens appear to revolve.

資料來源 : WordNet®

pole
     v 1: propel with a pole; "pole barges on the river"; "We went
          punting in Cambridge" [syn: {punt}]
     2: support on poles; "pole climbing plants like beans"
     3: deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole

pole
     n 1: a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic
     2: a native or inhabitant of Poland
     3: one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions; "they
        are at opposite poles"; "they are poles apart"
     4: a linear measure of 16.5 feet [syn: {perch}, {rod}]
     5: a square rod of land [syn: {perch}, {rod}]
     6: one of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and
        the celestial sphere [syn: {celestial pole}]
     7: one of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of
        rotation intersects the Earth's surface
     8: a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at
        which electric current enters or leaves [syn: {terminal}]
     9: a long fiberglass sports implement used for pole vaulting
     10: one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to
         be concentrated [syn: {magnetic pole}]