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How to pronounce “pole”
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Pronunciation guide for pole
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of pole with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Matthieu Ricard: How to let altruism be your guide 16 minutes
At the Third Pole, 2,000 glaciers are melting fast, faster than the Arctic.
- Definition summary
- Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce pole
Matthieu Ricard: How to let altruism be your guide 16 minutes
At the Third Pole, 2,000 glaciers are melting fast, faster than the Arctic.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “pole”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
- A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
- (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) A pole position.
- (US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A rifle.
- (vulgar, slang) A penis.
- [Verb]
- 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.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.
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