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{
"term": "pole",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"image": "data/images/te/tent.png",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a long thin straight piece of wood or metal, especially one with the end placed in the ground, used as a support",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a tent pole"
},
{
"text": "a ski pole"
},
{
"text": "a curtain pole"
},
{
"text": "A punt is a boat that you move by pushing a long pole against the bottom of the river."
},
{
"text": "I stood resting on my ski poles and watched her come down the slope."
},
{
"text": "The tent poles are made of aluminium"
},
{
"text": "a fishing pole"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "either of the two points at the opposite ends of the line on which the earth or any other planet turns",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the **North/South Pole**"
},
{
"text": "The meridian is an imaginary line drawn from pole to pole."
},
{
"text": "The north magnetic pole lies to the west of the geographic North Pole."
}
],
"topics": ["Geography"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["North", "South", "geographic"],
"preposition": ["between the (two) poles of", "from pole to pole"],
"phrases": ["be poles apart"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "either of the two ends of a magnet, or the positive or negative points of an electric battery",
"labels": "(physics)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [],
"topics": ["Physics and chemistry"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["North", "South", "geographic"],
"preposition": ["between the (two) poles of", "from pole to pole"],
"phrases": ["be poles apart"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "either of two opposite or very different extremes",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Their opinions were at opposite poles of the debate."
},
{
"text": "an artistic compromise between the poles of abstraction and representation"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["North", "South", "geographic"],
"preposition": ["between the (two) poles of", "from pole to pole"],
"phrases": ["be poles apart"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be widely separated; to have no interests that you share",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Her own friends were poles apart from his."
},
{
"text": "In temperament, she and her sister are poles apart."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to refer to the difficult way to the top of a profession",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to refuse to get involved with somebody/something or in a particular situation",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Personally, I wouldn’t touch him or his business with a ten-foot pole."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "crazy",
"labels": "(British English, old-fashioned, informal)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/pəʊl/",
"audio": "po/pole/pole__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/pəʊl/",
"audio": "po/pole/pole__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "noun sense 1 and up the pole. late Old English pāl (in early use without reference to thickness or length), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch paal and German Pfahl, based on Latin palus ‘stake’. noun senses 2 to 4 and be poles apart. late Middle English: from Latin polus ‘end of an axis’, from Greek polos ‘pivot, axis, sky’."
}