{
    "term": "pole",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "image": "data/images/te/tent.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a long thin straight piece of wood or metal, especially one with the end placed in the ground, used as a support",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a tent pole"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a ski pole"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a curtain pole"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A punt is a boat that you move by pushing a long pole against the bottom of the river."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I stood resting on my ski poles and watched her come down the slope."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The tent poles are made of aluminium"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a fishing pole"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "either of the two points at the opposite ends of the line on which the earth or any other planet turns",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the **North/South Pole**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The meridian is an imaginary line drawn from pole to pole."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The north magnetic pole lies to the west of the geographic North Pole."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Geography"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["North", "South", "geographic"],
                "preposition": ["between the (two) poles of", "from pole to pole"],
                "phrases": ["be poles apart"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "either of the two ends of a magnet, or the positive or negative points of an electric battery",
            "labels": "(physics)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Physics and chemistry"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["North", "South", "geographic"],
                "preposition": ["between the (two) poles of", "from pole to pole"],
                "phrases": ["be poles apart"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "either of two opposite or very different extremes",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Their opinions were at opposite poles of the debate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an artistic compromise between the poles of abstraction and representation"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["North", "South", "geographic"],
                "preposition": ["between the (two) poles of", "from pole to pole"],
                "phrases": ["be poles apart"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be widely separated; to have no interests that you share",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her own friends were poles apart from his."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In temperament, she and her sister are poles apart."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to refer to the difficult way to the top of a profession",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to refuse to get involved with somebody/something or in a particular situation",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Personally, I wouldn’t touch him or his business with a ten-foot pole."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "crazy",
            "labels": "(British English, old-fashioned, informal)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pəʊl/",
                "audio": "po/pole/pole__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pəʊl/",
                "audio": "po/pole/pole__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "noun 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’."
}