pole

1. (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.Examples: "to pole beans or hops"transitive

2. (transitive) To convey on poles.Examples: "to pole hay into a barn"transitive

3. (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.transitive

4. (transitive, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.Examples: "Long had poled the ball into the lower deck in right center."transitive

5. (transitive, metallurgy) To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.Examples: "to pole copper"transitive

1. (figuratively, by extension) Any of a small set of extremes; especially, either of two extremes that are possible or available.Examples: "In discussing alternatives to the polar extremes, Professor Nguyen mentioned two poles of a filthy floor versus a sterile surgical site."broadlyfiguratively

2. (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.

3. (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.

4. (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.Examples: "The function f(z)#61;#92;frac#123;1#125;#123;z-3#125; has a single pole at z#61;3."

5. (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.Examples: "And the slope sun his upward beam / Shoots against the dusky pole,"obsolete

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