poles

See also: Poles, and pôles

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəʊlz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /poʊlz/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊlz

Noun

poles

1. plural of pole

   The distance between the poles was three feet.

Verb

poles

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pole

Anagrams

• olpes, S-pole, lopes, eslop, LEPOs, Lopes, spole, slope

Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition por (“for, by”) + feminine plural article les (“the”).

Contraction

poles f pl (masculine sg pol, feminine sg pola, neuter sg polo, masculine plural polos)

1. for the, by the

Galician

Verb

poles

1. second-person singular present indicative of pulir

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch polijst, polijsten, from Old French poliss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of polir, from Latin polīre (“to polish, make smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to drive, strike, thrust”), from the notion of fulling cloth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.lɛs/
• Rhymes: -lɛs
• Hyphenation: po‧les

Noun

poles (plural poles-poles, first-person possessive polesku, second-person possessive polesmu, third-person possessive polesnya)

1. polish: a substance used to polish.

Alternative forms

• polis

Derived terms

• dipoles
• dipolesi
• dipoleskan
• memoles
• memolesi
• memoleskan
• pemoles
• pemolesan
• polesan
• terpoles

 

Further reading

• “poles” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Spanish

Noun

poles m pl

1. plural of pole

Verb

poles

1. second-person singular present indicative of polir