Pole vs Dole - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between pole and dole

is that pole is originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes while dole is money or other goods given as charity.

As verbs the difference between pole and dole

is that pole is to propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole while dole is to distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.

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}

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

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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dole

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) dol, from (etyl) .

Verb

(dol)

To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.

Noun

Money or other goods given as charity.

* Dryden

So sure the dole , so ready at their call, / They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall.

* Keble

Heaven has in store a precious dole .

Distribution; dealing; apportionment.

* Cleveland

At her general dole , / Each receives his ancient soul.

(informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed.

I get my dole paid twice a week.

I?ve been on the dole for two years now.

* 1996 , , page 107,

The men sit because they?re worn out from walking to the Labour Exchange every morning to sign for the dole , discussing the world?s problems and wondering what to do with the rest of the day.

* 1997 , , OECD Economic Surveys: Australia , page 67,

The FY 1997/98 Commonwealth budget allocated funding of A$ 21.6 million to the Work for the Dole initiative for unemployed young people.

A boundary; a landmark.

(Halliwell)

(UK, dialect) A void space left in tillage.

Etymology 2

(etyl) dolus, from (etyl) doleo.

Noun

(-)

(archaic) Sorrow or grief; dolour.

* 1485 , , 1868, Morte Darthur , page 212,

Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole .

* Tennyson

And she died. So that day there was dole in Astolat.

(legal, Scotland) dolus

Derived terms

* (payment to support the unemployed) dole bludger

Anagrams

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