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Things

• A solid cylindrical object with length greater than its diameter e.g:
  • Barber's pole, advertising a barber shop;
  • Firemen's poles
  • Telephone poles
  • Telegraph poles
  • Totem poles
  • Lampposts
  • Poles used in sporting and other activities:
    • Spinnaker pole, used in sailing;
    • The pole used for pole vaulting
    • Ski poles
    • Trekking poles
    • Maypoles
    • Pole dance
    • Pole-sitting
    • Pole bending (rodeo event)
• Pole position, in motorsport
• The contacts in a switch
• Pole (musician), an electronic music artist named Stefan Betke
• Pole (Polo) is a political party in Venezuela
• A unit of length also known as a rod
• Polarity in international relations

A right circular cylinder An elliptic cylinder In mathematics, a cylinder is a quadric, i. ... Barber pole, ca. ... A boy visiting a barber A barber (from the Latin barba, beard) is someone whose occupation is to cut any type of hair, give shaves, and trim beards. ... A firemens pole or sliding pole is a wooden pole or a metal tube or pipe installed between floors in fire stations, which was invented by Chicago, Illinois resident David Kenyon, although it is often incorrectly credited to the Boston Fire Department. ... A telegraph post, telegraph pole or telephone pole is a post or pole upon which telephone network equipment is situated. ... A telegraph post, telegraph pole or telephone pole is a post or pole upon which telephone network equipment is situated. ... A Gitxsan pole (left) and Kwakwakawakw pole (right) at Thunderbird Park in Victoria, British Columbia. ... A roadway light in front of a red sky at night A street light or street lamp, also known as a light standard or lamp standard, is a raised light on the edge of a road, turned on or lit at a certain time every night. ... A spinnaker pole is a spar used in sailboats (both dinghys and yachts) to help support and control a variety of headsails, particularly the spinnaker. ... For the songs, see Sailing (song). ... Pole vaulting an athletics event where a person uses a long, flexible pole (usually made either of fiberglass or carbon fiber) as an aid to leap over a bar, similar to the high jump, but at much greater heights. ... This skiers poles are tucked under his arms. ... A pair of typical trekking poles. ... Dancing around the maypole, in Ã…mmeberg, Sweden The maypole is a tall wooden pole (traditionally of hawthorn or birch), sometimes erected with several long coloured ribbons suspended from the top, festooned with flowers, draped in greenery and strapped with large circular wreaths, depending on local and regional variances. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Pole sitting is the practice of sitting on a pole for extended lengths of time, generally used as a test of endurance. ... Pole Bending is an amateur rodeo event that features a horse and one mounted cowgirl, running a weaving or serpentine path around six poles arranged in a line. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Electrical switches. ... Pole is Stefan Betke, a German electronic music artist commonly associated with the glitch genre as well as dubtronica. ... A rod is a unit of length, equal to 5. ... Polarity in international relations is a description of the distribution of power within the international system. ...

Geography

• Geographical pole, on the axis of a rotating body
  • North Pole, on Earth, the Arctic and Eskimos
  • South Pole, on Earth, Antarctica and penguins
  • Polar circle, either the Arctic or Antarctic Circle
  • Polar climate, climates characterised by cold, snowy weather
  • Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), a large white bear native to the Arctic
• Magnetic pole
• Adventurers and explorers count other "poles":
  • Pole of inaccessibility
  • Mount Everest, the third "top" of the Earth
• Poles, people inhabiting the country of Poland
• Orbital pole, on the celestial sphere
• Polar, a town in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States
• The Pole Star, Polaris

A geographical pole is either of two fixed points on the surface of a spinning body or planet, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body spins. ... North Pole Scenery When not otherwise qualified, the term North Pole usually refers to the Geographic North Pole – the northernmost point on the surface of the Earth, where the Earths axis of rotation intersects the Earths surface. ... Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. ... The polar circles is a name for the Arctic and the Antarctic Circle. ... Regions with a polar climate are characterized by a lack of warm summers (specifically, no month having an average temperature of 10 °C or higher). ... Binomial name Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774 The polar bear (Ursus maritimus), also known as the white bear, northern bear, or sea bear, is an Arctic native and the apex predator within its range. ... Magnetic lines of force of a bar magnet shown by iron filings on paper A magnet is an object that has a magnetic field. ... The pole of inaccessibility marks a location that is the most challenging to reach owing to its remoteness from geographical features which could provide access. ... Everest redirects here. ... The orbital poles of the Solar system. ... ... For other uses of the words Pole star and Polestar see Polestar (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Polaris (disambiguation). ...

Science and mathematics

• One "half" of a dipole
• Pole (complex analysis), a certain type of mathematical singularity
• The surface vertices of the eye's lens
• Polar body, a cell structure found inside an ovum, produced during oogenesis
• Polar curve (aviation), a graph of the rate of sink versus the horizontal speed of an aircraft
• Polar membrane, either 1) a lipid bilayer membrane displaying polarity or 2) a specialized region of the bacterial cell membrane associated with the flagella (usually located at the cell poles).
• Chemical polarity, describing how polar or non-polar a chemical bond is
• In the polar coordinate system, points are given by an angle and a distance from the pole, or central point equivalent to the origin in the Cartesian coordinate system
• Polar (cataclysmic variable), a strongly magnetic cataclysmic variable star system
• Intermediate polar, a type of cataclysmic variable binary star system
• The fetal pole is a thickening on the margin of the yolk sac of a fetus during pregnancy
• In physics, Landau pole is the energy scale where a coupling constant of a quantum field theory becomes infinite
• Monopole

The Earths magnetic field, which is approximately a dipole. ... In complex analysis, a pole of a holomorphic function is a certain type of simple singularity that behaves like the singularity 1/zn at z = 0. ... The cardinal points and the associated cardinal planes are a set of special points and planes in an optical system, which help in the analysis of its paraxial properties. ... Polar body is a cell structure found inside an ovum. ... A polar curve is a graph of the rate of sink of an aircraft, often a glider, versus its horizontal speed. ... Polar Membrane In the scientific literature this compound term has acquired two separate meanings. ... A commonly-used example of a polar compound is water (H2O). ... The polar coordinate system is a two-dimensional coordinate system in which points are given by an angle and a distance from the pole, called the origin in the Cartesian coordinate system. ... A Polar (also AM Herculis Star) is a type of cataclysmic variable binary star system with a very strong magnetic field. ... Diagram of an intermediate polar. ... The fetal pole is a thickening on the margin of the yolk sac of a fetus during pregnancy. ... In physics, Landau pole is the energy scale (or the precise value of the energy) where a coupling constant (the strength of an interaction) of a quantum field theory becomes infinite. ... In physics, magnetic monopole is a term describing a hypothetical particle that could be quickly clarified to a person familiar with magnets but not electromagnetic theory as a magnet with only one pole. In more accurate terms, it would have net magnetic charge. Interest in the concept stems from particle...

As a surname

• Charles Morice Pole, 1st Baronet (1757–1830), English naval officer and colonial governor
• Dick Pole (born 1950), former Major League Baseball player and current coach
• Edward Tudor-Pole (born 1955), a British singer and actor
• Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, 6th Earl of Suffolk (1471/1472 - 1513)
• George Pole, Conservative Party (UK) member and activist, Chairman of the Conservative Monday Club 1970-2
• Jill Pole, a fictional character from C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series
• John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln (1462/4-1487), eldest son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and Elizabeth of York
• John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (1442-1491/2), known as the Trimming Duke, son of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk
• Margaret Pole (1473–1541), Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George Plantagenet (brother of Edward IV and Richard III of England)
• Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk (1330–1389)
• Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (1367–1415)
• Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (1394–1415)
• Reginald Cardinal Pole (1500–1558), Archbishop of Canterbury
• Richard de la Pole (died 1525 in Milan) was a pretender to the English crown
• William Pole (1814-1900), English engineer
• William de la Pole (1396-1450), English soldier and commander in the Hundred Years' War, later Lord Chamberlain of England
• William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington GCH PC (1763–1845), British politician and elder brother of the Duke of Wellington

Sir Charles Morice Pole (January 18, 1757 – September 6, 1830) naval officer and colonial governor born England and died Denham Abbey, Hertfordshire , England. ... Richard Henry Pole (b. ... Edward Tudor-Pole (born December 6, 1955 in London) is a British musician, singer and actor. ... Edmund de la Pole (1471/1472 - 1513), Duke of Suffolk, was the younger brother of John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, and a nephew of King Edward IV and King Richard III. Following Johns death at the Battle of Stoke in 1487, Edmund became the leading Yorkist claimant... George Pole was a Conservative Party member and activist, and an early member (pre-1966) of the Conservative Monday Club, of which he served as National Chairman, 1970-2. ... Jill Pole is a major character from C.S. Lewiss Chronicles of Narnia series. ... There have been several notable individuals of this name in British history. ... There have been several notable individuals of this name in British history. ... Margaret Pole (1473 - 1541), Countess of Salisbury, was the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV and Isabella Neville . ... Michael de la Pole (c. ... Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (1367– 1415) was an English nobleman who supported Henry IV against Richard II. He died during the Siege of Harfleur in 1415. ... Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (1394 – 25 October 1415) was an English nobleman who died at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. ... Reginald Pole, cardinal Reginald Pole (1500 – November 17, 1558) was an English prelate, Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. ... Richard de la Pole (died February 24, 1525 in Pavia, Duchy of Milan) was a pretender to the English crown. ... William Pole (born April 22, 1814 in Birmingham; died December 30, 1900) was an English engineer. ... William de la Pole is the name of several prominent Englishmen in the 14th century, all from the same family. ... William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington (1763–1845) was an Irish politician and an elder brother of the Duke of Wellington. ...

Polar

May also refer to:

• Polar Electro Oy, a Finnish manufacturer of heart rate monitors
• Polar Air Cargo, a logistics company
• Polar (artist), a Norwegian electronic music artist
• Empresas Polar, a brewery in Venezuela
• Polar Beverages, an independent soft drink bottling company based in Worcester, Massachusetts
• Polar Challenge, a team Polar race to the Magnetic North Pole
• The Polar Express, a 1985 children's book adapted as a feature film in 2004
• Polar (album), the 2007 sophomore album by The High Water Marks
• Polar Studios, once one of the most famous recording studios in Scandinavia
• Polar Music, a Swedish record company founded in 1963
• Polar Music Prize, an international music prize founded 1989 awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music
• Order of the Polar Star (Swedish Nordstjärneorden), a Swedish Royal order of chivalry
• Polar Star, a 1989 crime novel by Martin Cruz Smith, set in the Soviet Union in the late 1980's
• POLAR II, a pedestrian test dummy created by Honda, used to study how pedestrians injuries in road traffic accidents
• Polar Wrocław, a Polish football club based in Wrocław, Poland
• The Crash Bandicoot character
• Penis (slang)

Polar Electro Oy is a leading manufacturer of personal Heart rate monitor registering and evaluation equipment. ... Polar Air Cargo Boeing 747 at Glasgow-Prestwick Airport (UK) in February 2004. ... Polar is a Norwegian drum and bass producer. ... Empresas Polar is the name of the largest brewery in Venezuela. ... Polar Beverages, founded in 1916, is an independent soft drink bottling company based in Worcester, Massachusetts. ... The Polar Challenge is a competitive, 350 nautical mile team Polar race in the Arctic, to the 1996 location of the Magnetic North Pole and beyond. ... The Polar Express is a 1985 childrens book (ISBN 0862641438) written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg, a former professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. ... The Polar Express is a 2004 feature film based on the childrens book of the same title by Chris Van Allsburg. ... Polar is planned to be the sophomore album by The High Water Marks. ... The High Water Marks is an indie rock band from Lexington, Kentucky that formed in 2004. ... Polar Studios was once one of the most famous recording studios in Scandinavia. ... Polar Music is a Swedish record company founded in 1963 by Stig Anderson and his friend Bengt Bernhag. ... The Polar Music Prize is an international music prize and awarded to individuals, groups or institutions in recognition of exceptional achievements in the creation and advancement of music. The prize was founded in 1989 following a donation from Stig Anderson and is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of... The Order of the Polar Star (Swedish Nordstjärneorden) is a Swedish Royal order of chivalry created by King Frederick I of Sweden on 23 February 1748, together with the Order of the Sword and the Order of the Seraphim. ... Polar Star is a Crime Novel by Martin Cruz Smith, set in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. ... POLAR II is a pedestrian test dummy created by Honda. ... Polar Wrocław is a Polish football club based in Wrocław, Poland. ... Polar is a character in the Crash Bandicoot series. ... The penis (plural penises, penes) is an external male sexual organ. ... Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speakers dialect or language. ...

See also

• Axle
• Club (weapon)
• Polish
• Quarterstaff
• Rod (disambiguation)
• Shaft

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