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Marker vs Pole - What's the difference?

marker | pole |

As a verb marker

is .

As a noun pole is

pole.

marker

English

(wikipedia marker)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An object used to mark a location.
  • Someone or something that marks.
  • # One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.
  • # A counter used in card games and other games.
  • # The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment.
  • # An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.
  • * 2013 , Phil McNulty, " Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport , 22 September 2013:
    • Pellegrini insisted this was a game City had to win - this they did and with the sort of performance that put down a marker for how the Chilean wants his team to play.
  • A felt-tipped pen.
  • (slang) A signed note of a debt to be paid.
  • (slang, figuratively) A nonmonetary debt owed to someone, especially in return for a favor.
    • We may not be able to do this alone. Maybe it’s time to call in some of our markers .
  • (paintball) A device that fires a paintball
  • (sports) A defending player who stays close to an opponent in order to mark them.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 21 , author=Jonathan Jurejko , title=Newcastle 3-0 Stoke , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=He skipped past Marc Wilson before clipping a delicious cross into the Stoke danger zone, where Cisse's sharp movement allowed him to escape marker Robert Huth and send a far-post header crashing against the crossbar. And Cabaye was waiting to pounce on the rebound with a close range header.}}
  • A gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species.
  • (In competition law) A recognition given by a competition authority that a company is the first to approach it to reveal the existence of a cartel, as a prelude to a formal application for leniency for the company.

    • Synonyms

    * (felt-tipped pen) marker pen

    Derived terms

    * biomarker * discourse marker * magic marker * man marker / man-marker * marker bed * marker gene * on-time marker * permanent marker * whiteboard marker

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mark or write on (something) using a
  • * {{quote-news, year=2002, date=July 5, author=Mike Sula, title=Everything Must Go, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=On one page someone has markered : "Remember, you are your own best thing." }}

    Anagrams

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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.
  • *
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.}}
  • (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.

    • Anagrams

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