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Poling

ˈpoʊlɪŋ
In the center of the back there is a pole of a chiefs house on a plinth.
In the center of the back there is a pole of a chiefs house on a plinth.
Illustrations
The bird sits on a pole above water. Rose hips in the ornamental border. Below the dates a full moon and the constellation Virgo. A tear line at the top of the leaf.
The bird sits on a pole above water. Rose hips in the ornamental border. Below the dates a full moon and the constellation Virgo. A tear line at the top of the leaf.
A Pole, leaning on his stick: to the right
Angel with whipping pole and whips. Below the presentation two lines in Latin. Third print from a series of eight prints depicting angels with the Passion Tools.
Angel with whipping pole and whips. Below the presentation two lines in Latin. Third print from a series of eight prints depicting angels with the Passion Tools.
A female saint or martyr stands in front of a pole or pillar and is held tightly by a man as he pulls her tongue out of her mouth with pliers.
A female saint or martyr stands in front of a pole or pillar and is held tightly by a man as he pulls her tongue out of her mouth with pliers.
On the far left is a bisj pole, against the back wall the v-shaped pole of a chiefs house.
On the far left is a bisj pole, against the back wall the v-shaped pole of a chiefs house.
The mutilated bodies of Johan and Cornelis de Witt hanging from a pole. On the right a man with a torch watching the corpses. Under an eight-line verse in Dutch.
The mutilated bodies of Johan and Cornelis de Witt hanging from a pole. On the right a man with a torch watching the corpses. Under an eight-line verse in Dutch.
An old bridge of wooden poles over a small river. Tipped-in photo in an album with 87 photos about the construction of the Gajoweg in North Sumatra between Bireuen and Takinguen between 1903-1914.
An old bridge of wooden poles over a small river. Tipped-in photo in an album with 87 photos about the construction of the Gajoweg in North Sumatra between Bireuen and Takinguen between 1903-1914.
Cardinal Reginald Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury. Above the portrait are coat of arms. The print has a French poem about his life as caption.
Cardinal Reginald Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury. Above the portrait are coat of arms. The print has a French poem about his life as caption.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
For 186 days you can not see the sun in the North Pole.
  1. Poling
    One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc.
  2. Poling
    (Gardening) The operation of dispersing worm casts over the walks with poles.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
In Atlanta, GA, it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.
  1. (n) poling
    The act of using a pole for any purpose.
  2. (n) poling
    A process used in toughening copper. It consists in plunging a long pole of green wood (birch is preferred) into the fused metal on the floor of the refining furnace. This process reduces the oxid which the refined metal still holds, and brings the copper to what is called “tough pitch,” or to the highest attainable degree of malleability. A somewhat similar process, known by the same name, is employed in the refining of tin.
  3. (n) poling
    In horticulture, the operation of scattering wormcasts on garden-walks with poles.
  4. (n) poling
    The boards (collectively) used to line the inside of a tunnel during its construction, to prevent the falling of the earth or other loose material.
  5. (n) poling
    Cramming for examination; hard study.
  6. (n) poling
    In dyeing, the process of working loose cotton or wool fiber in dye-vats with poles.
  7. (n) poling
    In elect, the adjustment or arrangement of the poles of an open magnetic circuit.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
Penguins are not found in the North Pole
  1. (n) Poling
    pō′ling act of using a pole for any purpose.
Quotations
Vicki Baum
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Vicki Baum
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
Doug Larson
Winston Churchill
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
Winston Churchill
I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
Muriel Spark
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Vicki Baum
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Vicki Baum
Idioms

At the bottom of the totem pole - (USA) If someone is at the bottom of the totem pole, they are unimportant. Opposite is at the top of the totem pole.

Climb the greasy pole - Advance within an organisation - especially in politics.

Greasy pole - (UK) The greasy pole is the difficult route to the top of politics, business, etc.

Pole position - If you're in pole position, you're in the best position to win or achieve something.

Poles apart - When two people or parties have an opinion or point of view that is as far apart as they could possibly be, they are poles apart.

Wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole - (USA) If you wouldn't touch something with a ten-foot pole, you would not consider being involved under any circumstances. (In British English, people say they wouldn't touch it with a bargepole)

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary From Pole a stick

Usage in the news

Firefighters there are continuing to battle the Pole Creek Fire just outside of town. opb.org

New fixture is to be installed after a utility pole was brought in Monday. ocregister.com

Red Bull Racing is embroiled in a technical row ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix, with rival teams unhappy about the floor design on the pole-winning car. racer.com

The recent political history of New York City would suggest that Bill Thompson, the former city comptroller, should be in pole position heading into the 2013 mayoral election. commentarymagazine.com

Braham's Eng sets pole vault record at GRC Finals. isanticountynews.com

A food-delivery person who couldn't find a spot on a pole chained his bike directly to mine instead. nytimes.com

South Pole evacuee recovering well after stroke. examiner-enterprise.com

Going to the North Pole Meeting Santa & telling him all her secrets. klewtv.com

Marco Island city sign at foot of Jolley Bridge destroyed in crash, flag pole dented. marconews.com

Dan Peschong ponders Brad Mills' success at the quarter pole of the 2012 season. blog.chron.com

Sophomore Katie Dison takes off during a pole vault attempt. forestlaketimes.com

Pole Fire from 5 Mile Butte Photo: Matt Laubach. klcc.org

Winds Push Pole Creek Fire Away From Sisters September 11, 2012 By Rachael McDonald. klcc.org

The Pole Creek Fire near Sisters has grown to 43 hundred acres. klcc.org

Fredonia native and US Olympian Jennifer Suhr took first place Sunday in the pole vault at the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham, England. observertoday.com

Usage in scientific papers

The reality condition implies that α is a pole if and only if α is a pole.
Generators for Rational Loop Groups and Geometric Applications

Thus, in contrast to the case of CSp(n, C), removing a pole at α simultaneously removes the pole at α.
Generators for Rational Loop Groups and Geometric Applications

We proceed by induction on degree, considering the cases of purely imaginary poles and non-imaginary poles separately.
Generators for Rational Loop Groups and Geometric Applications

If we manage to remove the pole at α by successively multiplying with loops satisfying the reality and twisting conditions, we automatically remove these other poles as well.
Generators for Rational Loop Groups and Geometric Applications

That we do not have a more complicated product of simple elements having poles at α and α is due to the fact that the left hand side has only simple poles there.
Generators for Rational Loop Groups and Geometric Applications

Usage in literature

Your reply will of course be that the pole S attracts n while the pole N repels it. "Fragments of science, V. 1-2" by John Tyndall

Another sat in the stern, with a pole in his hand. "Forests of Maine" by Jacob S. Abbott

The crooked little Pole's genius and character were alike unknown to Count Julius. "A Son of the Immortals" by Louis Tracy

It all lay hidden in that elementary law of magnetism, like poles repel and unlike poles attract. "Pharaoh's Broker" by Ellsworth Douglass

A long slender pole like a telegraph pole held the gate in place. "Blue Ridge Country" by Jean Thomas

Some jabbed the pike poles in and then walked forward along the boom logs. "The Adventures of Bobby Orde" by Stewart Edward White

Dmitri had been weakened by his Poles being called home. "Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15)" by Charles Morris

A few long poles were cut and trimmed flat. "Popular Adventure Tales" by Mayne Reid

A canvas shelter pitched upon a pole or poles, and stayed with cords and pegs. "The Sailor's Word-Book" by William Henry Smyth

Then a number of sticks were tied from pole to pole across it. "Condemned as a Nihilist" by George Alfred Henty

Usage in poetry
Still strain the banner-poles
Through the wind's song,
Westward the banner rolls
Over my wrong.
"A Good Knight In Prison" by William Morris Author object (714)
White man said to Ajax,
"Leave the poles at once."
Ajax said to white man,
"You must be a dunce."
"Ajax Votes for McKinley" by Frank Barbour Coffin
But see on pole suspended,
A serpent now appears;
And hark! what blissful tidings
Salute the mourner's ears.
"The Great Physician" by Mary Ann H T Bigelow
To and fro, and up and down,
He ran so swiftly there,
As round and round the frozen Pole
Glideth the lean white bear.
"The Ballad Of Judas Iscariot" by Robert Williams Buchanan Author object (577)
XIII. Then, oh! tell me, dear friend, what has place, what has scene,
To do with the heart or the soul?
For like theirs, sure thine own gen'rous bosom had been
The same 'neath the line or the pole.
"Fragment XVI." by Sydney Owenson Author object (634)
Brothers o' mine, brothers o' mine,
All the world over, from pole to pole --
All of them brothers of mine and thine --
Every wondering, blundering soul.
Banded together by grace divine,
Brothers o' mine, brothers o' mine.
"Brothers O' Mine" by C J Dennis Author object (84)