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单词 north pole
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north polen.

Brit. /ˌnɔːθ ˈpəʊl/, U.S. /ˌnɔrθ ˈpoʊl/
Forms: see north adv., adj., and n. and pole n.2 Also with capital initial(s).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: north adj., pole n.2
Etymology: < north adj. + pole n.2 Compare Dutch noordpool (1619 as noortpool ), German Nordpol (17th cent.), Swedish nordpol (1690), Danish nordpol . Compare south pole n.
1. The north celestial pole (pole n.2 2).The north celestial pole is the zenith as seen from the north geographical pole.
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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > [noun] > pole > north pole
north polea1398
Arctic Pole1565
pole arctic1632
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 107v The spere of heuen..gooþ a boute apon twey poles; þe on þerof is by north..and hatte polus articus, þat is, þe northe pole; þe oþir is polus antarticus, þat is, þe souþ polus.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 34 With vs the stars about the North Pole neuer go downe, and those contrariwise about the Meridian neuer rise.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Boötes, a slow working Star in the North Pole, near to Charls wain.
1819 T. Whiting Syst. Astron. (1828) 28 The two stars nearest the North Pole.
1904 J. Gill Text-bk. Navigation (new ed.) xiv. 145 The proximity of the Pole Star to the North Pole.
1994 J. North Fontana Hist. Astron. & Cosmol. ii. 9 It had to be a star circling the north pole and at lower culmination, since the altitude of the pole above the horizon is nearly 30°.
2.
a. Usually with capital initials. The northern geographical pole of the earth (pole n.2 1a), in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. Also: the earth's northern magnetic pole (pole n.2 6b). Also figurative in attributive use, with allusion to the extreme cold of the North Pole.At present the north magnetic pole is over 1000 miles (1600 km) from the North Pole, in the vicinity of Ellef Ringnes Island (between the Canadian mainland and Greenland); it is moving about 9 miles (15 km) each year.
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the world > the earth > geodetic references > [noun] > pole
polec1392
pole antarcticc1400
Arctic?a1425
north pole?a1475
south pole1553
Antarctic Pole1559
Arctic Pole1604
Antarctic1656
magnesa1657
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 261 Alle the grownde that lyethe over the occean..under the northe pole.
1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Pref. sig. aaviijv They see the continente or fyrme land, extended euen to the North Pole.
1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 161 Thys is a merveilous nedle, whiche beinge touched, (as I heare) onlye with the Magnes shoulde knowe to turne alwaye to the North pole.
1705 C. Purshall Ess. Mechanism Macrocosm 265 If you heat an Iron Red, and let it cool perpendicular to the Earth,..its lowest end will gain a Verticity towards the North Pole.
1827 Gentleman's Mag. 97 i. 159 Resolved..that another Expedition to the North-Pole shall be undertaken.
1885 A. Edwardes Girton Girl I. ii. 36 Linda asked this with the North Pole voice that puts the social position of a feminine questioner at so vast a distance from the social position of her questioned.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 24 Apr. 7/4 The North Pole weather we are now fighting against.
1943 National Geographic Mag. Dec. 645/2 Over the North Pole, air is cooled and sinks.
1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 1 May 15/2 A team of Canadian divers that completed the first diving expedition at the earth's geographic North Pole was picked up there yesterday.
1992 Rolling Stone 22 Mar. 108/1 Alaskan stations broadcast with tons of wattage..so they can let people way out at the magnetic north pole know when their wife has a baby.
b. An analogous point on a spherical or spheroidal body, esp. another planet or a moon.By a convention agreed by the International Astronomical Union, the north pole of a body such as a planet is the pole that points to the northern side of the ecliptic, regardless of the planet's direction of spin.
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the world > the universe > planet > [noun] > part of planet
terminator1661
belt1665
fascia1704
fibre1715
white spot1784
dayside1827
nightside1848
albedo1860
north pole1861
polar cap1863
core1882
regolith1897
tectonics1899
sediment ring1955
radiation belt1958
palaeo-radius1960
space needle1961
soil1967
1861 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. i. vii. 42 When the north pole [of the Moon] leans towards the Earth, we see somewhat more of the region surrounding it.
1891 A. M. Clerke in Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Instit. 106 M. Celoria..obtained for a ‘mean sounding’, at the north pole of the milky way, almost identically the same number [of stars] given by Herschel's great reflector.
1923 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 25 512 The important point is that Q0 is not separated from P0 by the pole (the north pole is meant here and in what follows) on the shorter meridian connecting these points.
1948 Ann. Math. 49 496 Such a loop is a mapping into Z of a 2-sphere S2 with the north-pole, say, mapped into the base point.
1977 Time 17 Oct. 45/1 Among the pictures released by NASA: a photomosaic of the planet's north pole.
1998 D. Brin Heaven's Reach 81 Steering his scoutcraft to the planetoid's north pole, Harry docked.
3. The pole of a magnet that points north when it is allowed to orient itself with the earth's magnetic field; the pole of a magnetized body that is repelled by such a pole.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > magnetism > magnetic devices or materials > [noun] > pole of magnet
pole?1575
north pole1646
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. iii. 57 Let the two Poles both North and South be marked out in the Load-stone.]
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. iii. 74 If unto the powder of Loadstone or Iron we admove the North pole of the Loadstone. View more context for this quotation
1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 418 I took my Knife,..and profering it to the Needle, it drew the North Pole.
1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics x. 93 A steel wire..became magnetic by exposure to the white light of the sun; a north pole appearing at each polished part, and a south pole at each unpolished part.
1901 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 196 139 The ring rotated in the same direction as that in which a current would momentarily be induced in a coil of wire if it were suddenly moved towards a magnetic north pole, namely clockwise.
1935 C. J. Smith Intermediate Physics (ed. 2) v. xliv. 711 Maxwell gave the following rule: If an observer imagines that a corkscrew is being driven in the direction of the current, a north pole, placed in the field, will move in the same direction as the screw is being turned.
1964 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 52 20 A soft iron cylinder N which is sandwiched between the north poles of two bar magnets.
1990 F. E. Close Too Hot to Handle (1992) (BNC) 8 To force together two protons that are initially far apart..is like trying to encourage the two north poles of a pair of magnets to join at a distance of less than a billionth of a millimetre.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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