pole
noun /pəʊl/
/pəʊl/
Idioms 
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enlarge imagea long thin straight piece of wood or metal, especially one with the end placed in the ground, used as a support- a tent pole
- a ski pole
- a curtain pole
Extra Examples- A punt is a boat that you move by pushing a long pole against the bottom of the river.
- I stood resting on my ski poles and watched her come down the slope.
- The tent poles are made of aluminium
- a fishing pole
- either of the two points at the opposite ends of the line on which the earth or any other planet turns
- the North/South Pole
- The meridian is an imaginary line drawn from pole to pole.
- The north magnetic pole lies to the west of the geographic North Pole.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- North
- South
- geographic
- …
- between the (two) poles of
- from pole to pole
- be poles apart
- (physics) either of the two ends of a magnet, or the positive or negative points of an electric battery see also magnetic pole (2)Topics Physics and chemistryc2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- North
- South
- geographic
- …
- between the (two) poles of
- from pole to pole
- be poles apart
- either of two opposite or very different extremes
- Their opinions were at opposite poles of the debate.
- an artistic compromise between the poles of abstraction and representation
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- North
- South
- geographic
- …
- between the (two) poles of
- from pole to pole
- be poles apart
Word Originnoun sense 1 and up the pole. late Old English pāl (in early use without reference to thickness or length), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch paal and German Pfahl, based on Latin palus ‘stake’. noun senses 2 to 4 and be poles apart. late Middle English: from Latin polus ‘end of an axis’, from Greek polos ‘pivot, axis, sky’.
Idioms
be poles apart
- to be widely separated; to have no interests that you share
- Her own friends were poles apart from his.
- In temperament, she and her sister are poles apart.
the greasy pole
- (informal) used to refer to the difficult way to the top of a profession
not touch somebody/something with a ten-foot pole (North American English)
(British English not touch somebody/something with a bargepole)
- (informal) to refuse to get involved with somebody/something or in a particular situation
- Personally, I wouldn’t touch him or his business with a ten-foot pole.
up the pole
- (British English, old-fashioned, informal) crazy