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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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pole

UK /pəʊl/ · US /poʊl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of poll

Forms poles poling poled de la Pole

  1. noun Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
  2. noun A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
  3. noun (fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
  4. noun A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
  5. noun (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
  6. noun (historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
  7. noun (US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A rifle.
  8. noun (vulgar, slang) A penis.
  9. verb To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole. “Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.”
  10. verb To identify something quite precisely using a telescope. “He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.”
  11. verb (transitive) To furnish with poles for support. “to pole beans or hops”
  12. verb (transitive) To convey on poles. “to pole hay into a barn”
  13. verb (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
  14. verb (transitive, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.
  15. verb (transitive, metallurgy) To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen. “to pole copper”
  16. noun Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
  17. noun A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
  18. noun (figuratively, by extension) Any of a small set of extremes; especially, either of two extremes that are possible or available. “In discussing alternatives to the polar extremes, Professor Nguyen mentioned two poles of a filthy floor versus a sterile surgical site.”
  19. noun (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
  20. noun (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.

Synonyms

carriage pole beam shaft drawbar rod Polander perch celestial pole terminal magnetic pole punt

Antonyms

zero

Etymology

English poleFrom Middle English pole, pal, from Old English pāl (“a pole, stake, post; a kind of hoe or spade”), from Proto-West Germanic *pāl (“pole”), from Latin pālus (“stake, pale, prop, stay”), perhaps from Old Latin *paxlos, from Proto-Italic *pākslos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to nail, fasten”). Doublet of peel, pale, and palus.
Cognate with Scots pale, paill (“stake, pale”), North Frisian pul, pil (“stake, pale”), Saterland Frisian Pool (“pole”), West Frisian poal (“pole”), Dutch paal (“pole”), German Pfahl (“pile, stake, post, pole”), Danish pæl (“pole”), Swedish påle (“pole”), Icelandic páll (“hoe, spade, pale”), Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; lustrum”).

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

From German Pole.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.
  2. noun A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers.
  3. noun A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5 Bacon.
  4. verb To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops.

Etymology [Cf. G. Pole a Pole, Polen Poland.]

Etymology [As. pal, L. palus, akin to pangere to make fast. Cf. Pale a stake, Pact.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “pole”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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