transcription, транскрипция: [ poʊl ]
( poles)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A pole is a long thin piece of wood or metal, used especially for supporting things.
The truck crashed into a telegraph pole...
He reached up with a hooked pole to roll down the metal shutter.
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2.
The earth’s poles are the two opposite ends of its axis, its most northern and southern points.
For six months of the year, there is hardly any light at the poles.
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see also North Pole , South Pole
3.
The two poles of a range of qualities, opinions, or beliefs are the completely opposite qualities, opinions, or beliefs at either end of the range.
The two politicians represent opposite poles of the political spectrum.
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4.
If you say that two people or things are poles apart , you mean that they have completely different beliefs, opinions, or qualities.
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