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Substantiivi

1. Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
2. Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
3. A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
4. A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
5. (fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
6. (figuratively, by extension) Any of a small set of extremes; especially, either of two extremes that are possible or available.
7. (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
8. A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
9. (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
10. (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
11. (historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod ( chain or yards).
12. (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z) \rightarrow ∞ as z \rightarrow a.
13. (motor racing) A pole position.
14. (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
15. (US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A rifle.
16. Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
17. (vulgar, slang) A penis.

Verbi

1. (transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
2. To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
3. To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
4. (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
5. (transitive) To convey on poles.
6. (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
7. (transitive, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.
8. (transitive, metallurgy) To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.