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polecat
English
Etymology
From Middle French pole (“hen”) + cat. Origin unknown, possible explanations include its fondness for poultry, or the Old English word fol, "foul", because of its smell. The same species was also known as folmart, "foul martin".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??lkæt/
Noun
polecat (plural polecats)
- A weasel-like animal of the genus Mustela.
- notably, the European polecat, Mustela putorius.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 61
- By the little garden pergola open to the winds some fluttered peacocks were blotted nervelessly amid the dripping trees, their heads sunk back beneath their wings: while in the pergola itself, like a fallen storm-cloud, lolled a negress, her levelled, polecat eyes semi-veiled by the nebulous alchemy of the rainbow.
- Synonyms: fitch, foumart
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 61
- notably, the European polecat, Mustela putorius.
- (US, dialects, including Appalachia) A skunk.
- (television) A tubular device used to support lights on a set.
- 1991, Gerald Millerson, The Technique of Lighting for Television and Film (page 323)
- This is adjustable telescopic tubing, wedged securely between floor and ceiling (vertical pole) or wall-to-wall (horizontal pole), within corridors, arches, window openings, doorways, etc. It may be held in position by a strong internal spring or end-screws. Designs include polecat, varipole, barricuda, jack tube, Acrow.
- 2013, Alan Bermingham, Location Lighting for Television (page 196)
- This uses a battery-operated HMI/MSR 200 W rigged on a magic arm fastened to a vertical 'pole-cat'. Check that the car roof is suitable for this application and remember to include a clean card (beer mat) between the top of the pole-cat and the car roof!
- 1991, Gerald Millerson, The Technique of Lighting for Television and Film (page 323)
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- polecat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- colpate, pot lace
polecat From the web:
pole
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)
- Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
- (fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
- A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
- (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
- (historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (1?4 chain or 5 1?2 yards).
- (motor racing) Pole position.
- (US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A gun.
- (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)
- To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
- To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
- (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
- (transitive) To convey on poles.
- (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
- (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)
- Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
- A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
- (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
- (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
- (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function , any point for which as .
- (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,
- 1634, John Milton, Comus, 1817, Paradise Regained... To which is added a complete collection of his miscellaneous poems, page 211,
- 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)
- (transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
Anagrams
- LEPO, lope, olpe, pleo-
Aiwoo
Verb
pole
- 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
- (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
- (agriculture) field
- (physics) field
- (algebra) field
- (computing) field
- (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
- 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
- Alternative form of ei ole
Galician
Etymology 1
From Latin pollen.
Noun
pole m (plural poles)
- pollen
- (motor racing) Pole position.
Synonyms
- primeira posición
Etymology 2
See pulir.
Verb
pole
- Third-person singular (el, ela, vostede?) present indicative of pulir
Latin
Noun
pole
- 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)
- field (land area; wide open space)
- (regional, singular only) outside
- (geometry) area
- (physics) field
- (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 ????)
- vocative singular of pol
Spanish
Etymology
From English pole.
Noun
pole m (plural poles)
- (motor racing) Pole position
- Synonym: primera posición
Verb
pole
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of polir.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of polir.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of polir.
Swahili
Pronunciation
Interjection
pole (plural poleni)
- sorry
See also
- samahani
Adjective
-pole (declinable)
- calm, gentle
Inflection
Derived terms
- Nominal derivations:
- upole (“gentleness”)
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