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Banner vs Pole - What's the difference?

banner | pole |

As nouns the difference between banner and pole

is that banner is banner while pole is pole.

banner

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A flag or standard used by a military commander, monarch or nation.
  • Any large sign, especially if constructed of soft material or fabric.
    • The mayor hung a banner across Main Street to commemorate the town's 100th anniversary.
  • A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.
  • By extension, a cause or purpose; a campaign or movement.
    • They usually make their case under the banner of environmentalism.
  • (journalism) The title of a newspaper as printed on its front page; the nameplate; masthead.
  • (Internet, television) A type of advertisement in a web page or on television, usually taking the form of a graphic or animation above or alongside the content. Contrast popup, interstitial.
  • (heraldry) The principal standard of a knight.
  • A person etc. who bans something.
  • An administrative subdivision in .

    • Derived terms

    * banner roll

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Exceptional; very good.
    • It is a banner achievement for an athlete to run a mile in under four minutes.
    1965 was a banner year for the company; it produced a million widgets for the first time.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1853 , author=New-Hampshire Missionary Society , title=Annual Report of the Trustees of the New Hampshire Missionary Society, Volumes 50-57 , volume=53 citation , page=16 , magazine=Annual Report of the Trustees of the New Hampshire Missionary Society , publisher=Steam power press of McFarland & Jenks , passage=The year just closed has been the banner year for New-Hampshire Home Missions. The amount raised for the cause is $505,38 more than ever was raised before in any one year. }}

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    pole

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) pole, pal, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
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  • (angling) A type of basic fishing rod.
  • A long fiberglass sports implement used for pole-vaulting.
  • (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
  • (historical) A unit of length, equal to a perch (¼ chain or 5½ yards).
  • (auto racing) Pole position.
  • (analysis) a singularity that behaves like \frac{1}{z^n} at z = 0
    • Synonyms
    * See also

    Antonyms

    * (analysis) root, zero
    Derived terms
    (terms derived from pole) * flagpole * maypole * poleaxe * pole vault

    Verb

    (pol)
  • To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
    • Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.
  • To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
    • He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.
  • To furnish with poles for support.
    • to pole beans or hops
  • To convey on poles.
    • to pole hay into a barn
  • To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) pole, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
  • A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
  • (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
  • (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
  • (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function f(z): a point a for which f(z) \rightarrow \infty as z \rightarrow a.
    • The function f(z) = \frac{1}{z-3} has a single pole at z = 3 .
  • (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
  • * Milton
    • shoots against the dusky pole
    Antonyms
    * (complex analysis) zero
    Derived terms
    * polar * polarity * dipole * monopole * north pole * south pole * poles apart * polestar, pole star * pole vault

    Verb

    (pol)
  • To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.

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