Poled vs Piled - What's the difference?
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(pole)
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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, title= (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 at
To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
To furnish with poles for support.
To convey on poles.
To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
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 : a point for which as .
(obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
* Milton
To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
(pile)
(iron manufacturing) Formed from a pile or fagot.
Having a pile or point; pointed.
* Chapman
Having a pile or nap.
* L. Barry (1611)
As verbs the difference between poled and piled
is that poled is past tense of pole while piled is past tense of pile.As an adjective piled is
formed from a pile or fagot.poled
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*pole
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pole, pal, from (etyl) .Noun
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Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* (analysis) root, zeroDerived terms
(terms derived from pole) * flagpole * maypole * poleaxe * pole vaultVerb
(pol)- Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.
- He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.
- to pole beans or hops
- to pole hay into a barn
Etymology 2
From (etyl) pole, .Noun
(en noun)- The function has a single pole at .
- shoots against the dusky pole
Antonyms
* (complex analysis) zeroDerived terms
* polar * polarity * dipole * monopole * north pole * south pole * poles apart * polestar, pole star * pole vaultVerb
(pol)Anagrams
* ----piled
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- piled iron
- Magus threw a spear well piled .
- Three-piled velvet.