different between pole vs splint

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??l/, /p??l/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /po?l/
  • IPA^(key): [p?o???], [p?o??]
• (US) IPA^(key): [p?o???]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /p??l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• Homophones: Pole, poll

Etymology 1

From Middle English pole, pal, from Old English p?l (“a pole, stake, post; a kind of hoe or spade”), from Proto-Germanic *palaz, *p?laz (“pole”), from Latin p?lus (“stake, pale, prop, stay”) from Old Latin *paxlus, from Proto-Indo-European *peh??- (“to nail, fasten”).

Noun

pole (plural poles)

1. Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
2. (fishing) 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. (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
5. (historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹?₄ chain or 5+¹?₂ yards).
6. (motor racing) Pole position.
7. (US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A gun.
8. (vulgar) A penis

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:stick
• (unit of length): rod

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pole (third-person singular simple present poles, present participle poling, simple past and past participle poled)

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, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle French pole, pôle, from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek ????? (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

Noun

pole (plural poles)

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. (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
4. (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
5. (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function ${\displaystyle f(z)}$, any point ${\displaystyle a}$ for which ${\displaystyle f(z)\rightarrow \infty }$ as ${\displaystyle z\rightarrow a}$.

6. (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
   • 1634, John Milton, Comus, 1817, Paradise Regained... To which is added a complete collection of his miscellaneous poems, page 211,

     And the slope sun his upward beam / Shoots against the dusky pole,

7. Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.

Antonyms

• (complex analysis): zero

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pole (third-person singular simple present poles, present participle poling, simple past and past participle poled)

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

Anagrams

• LEPO, lope, olpe, pleo-

Aiwoo

Verb

pole

1. to work (in a garden or field)

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) , “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German boln.

Verb

pole

1. (Uri) to make noise, clatter, rumble

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 35.

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *po?e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pol?]

Noun

pole n

1. (agriculture) field
2. (physics) field
3. (algebra) field
4. (computing) field
5. (programming) array

Declension

Synonyms

• komutativní t?leso n (algebra)

Further reading

• pole in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• pole in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adverb

pole

1. in Polish

Estonian

Etymology

Contraction of ep ole (Modern: ei ole). ep is the old 3rd person singular form of the negative verb.

Verb

pole

1. Alternative form of ei ole

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin pollen.

Noun

pole m (plural poles)

1. pollen
2. (motor racing) Pole position.

Synonyms

• primeira posición

Etymology 2

See pulir.

Verb

pole

1. Third-person singular (el, ela, vostede^?) present indicative of pulir

Latin

Noun

pole

1. vocative singular of polus

References

• pole in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pole in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p??e, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?- (whence English plain, plane, plan, piano, clan, plant, planet, place, floor, and flake).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.l?/

Noun

pole n (diminutive poletko)

1. field (land area; wide open space)
2. (regional, singular only) outside
3. (geometry) area
4. (physics) field
5. (computing) field

Declension

Derived terms

• pole namiotowe
• szuka? wiatru w polu

Related terms

• Polska
• English: Poland

Further reading

• pole in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• pole in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pole (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. vocative singular of pol

Spanish

Etymology

From English pole.

Noun

pole m (plural poles)

1. (motor racing) Pole position

   Synonym: primera posición

Verb

pole

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of polir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of polir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of polir.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Interjection

pole (plural poleni)

1. sorry

See also

• samahani

Adjective

-pole (declinable)

1. calm, gentle

Inflection

Derived terms

• Nominal derivations:
  • upole (“gentleness”)

English

Etymology

From Middle English splint, splent, splente, from Middle Low German splinte, splente or Middle Dutch splint, splinte. Cognate with Old High German splinza (“bar, bolt, latch”). All ultimately from Proto-Germanic *splint?, *splint? (“piece of wood, splinter”), from Proto-Germanic *splint-, *splind- (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spl?nt/

Noun

splint (plural splints)

1. A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
2. (dentistry) A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
3. (medicine) A device to immobilize a body part.
4. (military, historical) A segment of armour consisting of a narrow overlapping plate.
5. (mining) Synonym of splent coal
6. (zootomy) A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
7. (zootomy, veterinary medicine) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.

Usage notes

• For a horse to pop a splint is for it to receive an injury to the splint bone or surrounding area.

Derived terms

• shin splint
• splinter

Translations

Verb

splint (third-person singular simple present splints, present participle splinting, simple past and past participle splinted)

1. (transitive) To apply a splint to; to fasten with splints.
2. To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.
3. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To split into thin, slender pieces; to splinter.

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