Poles
Gdańsk natives, perhaps
Poles are the extreme endpoints of an axis—Earth's North and South Poles, or the terminals of a magnet or battery.
The word extends to opposite positions generally: The candidates occupy opposite poles on immigration.
A pole is also a long slender rod: a fishing pole, a tent pole, a pole for vaulting.
To be poles apart is to differ completely. (Capitalized Poles are people from Poland.)
Catching aquatic creatures
- tentPortable fabric shelter
- flagCloth symbol or signal
- vaultSecure storage chamber
- bambooTall woody grass
wooden · metal · support · prop · stake · shaft · mast · staff
Specific regional designation
- SouthRegion with distinct identity
- ArcticEarth's northernmost zone
- AntarcticSouthern polar region
- magneticAttracting iron or attention
axis · latitude · equator · hemisphere · meridian · exploration · expedition · ice cap
Affirming or certain
- negativeOpposite of affirmative
- terminalAt the endpoint
- magneticAttracting iron or attention
- batteryPortable electricity storage
anode · cathode · dipole · charge · electrode · current · circuit · magnetism
fishing
Catching aquatic creatures
bamboo · wooden · metal · support · prop · stake · shaft · mast · staff · curtain
North
Specific regional designation
magnetic · axis · latitude · equator · hemisphere · meridian · exploration · expedition · ice cap · tundra
positive
Affirming or certain
battery · anode · cathode · dipole · charge · electrode · current · circuit · magnetism
skis
Snow-gliding footwear
baskets · grips · straps · plant · parallel · carving · giant slalom · tuck · moguls · bindings
apart
In different locations
- European peoplesGermans, Italians, Greeks, French, Romanians
- peoplesAmericans, British, Chinese, French, Germans
- Eastern EuropeansRussians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Czechs, Slovaks
- Indo-EuropeansCelts, Slavs, Indo-Aryan, Aryans, Greeks
- Medieval PeoplesFranks, Saxons, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals
- Slavic peoplesRussians, Czechs, Ukrainians, Serbs, Croats
- polar bearsWhite Arctic marine mammals
- barber polesRotating striped shop indicators
- North PoleEarth's northern axis point
- fishing poleAngler's casting implement
- telephone poleTall post carrying wires
- polar oppositeComplete contrary in nature
pole, poled, poling, polar, polarity, polarize, polarized, polarizing, bipolar