Pole vs Lever - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between pole and lever

is that pole is pole while lever is (mechanics) a rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum ), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion or lever can be (rare) a levee.

As a verb lever is

to move with a.

As an adverb lever is

(obsolete) rather.

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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lever

English

(wikipedia lever)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) leveor, ; see levant. Compare alleviate, elevate, leaven.

Noun

(en noun)

(mechanics) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum ), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.

# Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.

A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button).

(mechanics) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.

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(mechanics) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.

Verb

To move with a .

''With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.

(figuratively) To use, operate like a .

To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.

Derived terms

* leverage * compound lever * lever escapement * lever jack * lever watch * universal lever

Etymology 2

From (etyl) comparative of of Germanic origin (compare German lieb) or lief.

Adverb

(-)

(obsolete) Rather.

* 1530 , , The Four PP

for I had lever be without ye / Then have suche besines about ye

* 1537 ,

Now therefore take my life from me, for I had lever die then live.

* 1590 ,

For lever had I die than see his deadly face.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) lever.

Noun

(en noun)

(rare) A levee.

* 1742 , Miss Robinson, Mrs. Delany's Letters , II.191:

We do not appear at Phœbus's Levér .

* 2011 , Tim Blanning, "The reinvention of the night", Times Literary Supplement , 21 Sep 2011:

Louis XIV’s day began with a lever at 9 and ended (officially) at around midnight.

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