pol

Clipping of politician

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɑl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɒl/
• Rhymes: -ɒl

pol (plural pols)

1. (informal) A politician.

• LPO, PLO, lop

From a contraction of the preposition por (“for, by”) + masculine singular article el (“the”).

pol m (feminine pola, neuter polo, masculine plural polos, feminine plural poles)

1. for the, by the

pol m or f (plural pols)

1. pole

   el pol Sud ― the South Pole

   pol magnètic ― magnetic pole

pol c (singular definite polen, plural indefinite poler)

1. pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
2. a pole in geometry.
3. pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

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• Rhymes: -ɔl

pol m (plural pollen, diminutive polletje n)

1. a bundle of plants, with the soil it stands on or that hangs from it
2. (Belgium) a hand

• graspol

pol

1. by

   Esti libru hue escritu pol Gabriel García Márquez.

   This book was written by Gabriel García Márquez.

2. through
3. for

From Middle French pole, from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

• IPA^(key): [pˠɔlˠ]

pol m (genitive singular poil, nominative plural poil)

1. (biology, electricity, geography, magnetism) pole

• "pol" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pol/, [pɔɫ]

pol

1. by Pollux!, truly!, really!
   • c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina

     Myrrhina: Et pol ego istuc ad te. Sed quid est, quod tuo nunc animo aegrest?

     Myrrhina: And, troth, I was coming here to yours. But what is it that now distresses your mind?

• edepol

• pol in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pol in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pol in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)
    

pol m (definite singular polen, indefinite plural poler, definite plural polene)

1. pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
2. a pole in geometry.
3. pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

• nordpol
• Polhavet

• “pol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

• IPA^(key): /puːl/

pol m (definite singular polen, indefinite plural polar, definite plural polane)

1. pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
2. a pole in geometry.
3. pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

• nordpol
• Polhavet

• “pol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

West Proto-Germanic *pōlaz, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old High German pfuol (German Pfuhl).

• IPA^(key): /poːl/

pōl m

1. pool

• English: pool

From Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).

• IPA^(key): /pôːl/

pȏl m (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

1. pole (magnetic, positive, negative etc.)

• polarni

• spȏl (Croatia)

• IPA^(key): /pôːl/

pȏl m (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) sex (kind of an organism as determined by its reproductive organs)
2. (Bosnia, Serbia) gender

• polni

From pȍla.

• pȏ

• IPA^(key): /pôːl/

pȏl (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

1. (Croatia) half

   sat i pol ― an hour and a half

   tri i pol mjeseca ― three and a half months

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pol c

1. a pole, an extreme point, usually magnetically or geographically. (North pole, South pole)
2. a pole, the points of an electrical battery between which the voltage arises.
3. (mathematics, theory for analytical functions) a point where a Laurent series is not defined.

• batteripol
• magnetpol
• nordpol
• polär
• polarcirkel
• polarexpedition
• polarforskning
• sydpol