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  • 61pole — 1 noun (C) 1 STICK/POST a long stick or post usually made of wood or metal, often set upright in the ground to support something: a telephone pole | a flagpole | The dusty curtains hung from unpolished brass poles. 2 NORTH/SOUTH POLE the most… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 62Pole Position (arcade game) — Infobox VG title= Pole Position developer= Namco publisher= Namco (Japan), Atari (USA) released= vgrelease|JP=1982 vgrelease|NA=1982 genre = Arcade style racing modes= Single player platforms= Arcade input= Steering wheel, Gear shifter, Pedals… …

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  • 63Pole figure — A pole figure is a graphical representation of the orientation of objects in space. For example, pole figures in the form of stereographic projections are used to represent the orientation distribution of crystallographic lattice planes in… …

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  • 64pole — pole1 poleless, adj. /pohl/, n., v., poled, poling. n. 1. a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.: a telephone pole; a fishing pole. 2. Northeastern U.S. a long, tapering piece of wood or other material that extends from the …

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  • 65Pole piece — Moving coil meter movement with the nearer pole piece partly cut away A pole piece is a structure composed of material of high magnetic permeability that serves to direct the magnetic field produced by a magnet. A pole piece attaches to and in a… …

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  • 66Pole, John de la, Earl of Lincoln — (c. 1464–1487)    A nephew of EDWARD IV and RICHARD III, John de la Pole, earl of Lincoln, was a leader of Lambert SIMNEL’s 1487 attempt to reopen the civil wars and restore the house of YORK to the throne.    The eldest son of John de la POLE,… …

    Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses

  • 67pole vault — Track. 1. a field event in which a leap or vault over a crossbar is performed with the aid of a long pole. 2. a leap or vault so performed. [1890 95] * * * Track and field event consisting of a vault for height over a crossbar with the aid of a… …

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  • 68Pole, William de la, Duke of Suffolk — (1396–1450)    As first minister of HENRY VI,William de la Pole, duke of Suffolk, so monopolized royal favor that Richard PLANTAGENET, duke of York, believed himself unjustly excluded from his rightful place in government and undertook efforts to …

    Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses

  • 69pole — There are two separate words pole in English. Pole ‘long thin piece of wood’ [OE] comes from a pre historic Germanic *pāl (source also of German pfahl, Dutch paal, and Swedish påla). This was borrowed from Latin pālus ‘stake’, from which English… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 70pole — pole1 noun 1》 a long, slender piece of wood or metal, typically used as a support.     ↘a wooden shaft fitted to the front of a cart or carriage drawn by animals and attached to their yokes or collars.     ↘a simple fishing rod. 2》 a young tree… …

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