different between poles vs goalpost

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??lz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /po?lz/
• Rhymes: -o?lz

Noun

poles

1. plural of pole

   The distance between the poles was three feet.

Verb

poles

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pole

Anagrams

• LEPOs, S-pole, eslop, lopes, olpes, slope, spole

Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition por (“for, by”) + feminine plural article les (“the”).

Contraction

poles f pl (masculine sg pol, feminine sg pola, neuter sg polo, masculine plural polos)

1. for the, by the

Galician

Verb

poles

1. second-person singular present indicative of pulir

Spanish

Verb

poles

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present indicative form of polir.

English

Etymology

goal +? post.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????lp??st/, /????l-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??o?lpo?st/
• Hyphenation: goal?post
• Rhymes: -??st

Noun

goalpost (plural goalposts)

1. (sports) One of the two vertical side poles of a goal.
2. (sports, American football) The tall Y-shaped upright, now usually of fiberglass, at either end of the playing field, through which a football must go in order for a field goal to be scored. (They were originally H-shaped, with one wooden post on either side.)

Derived terms

• move the goalposts

Translations

Further reading

• goal (sport) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• goalpost on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• go postal