thin pole

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• thin — [adj1] fine, light, slender attenuate, attenuated, beanpole*, beanstalk*, bony*, cadaverous, delicate, emaciated, ethereal, featherweight, fragile, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, lank, lanky, lean, lightweight, meager, narrow, peaked, pinched …   New thesaurus

• pole — [ poul ] noun count ** 1. ) a long thin stick, often used for holding or supporting something: There were rows of poles supporting young bean plants. 2. ) one of two things that are completely opposite: Somewhere between the poles of wealth and… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• Pole of inaccessibility — Map of distance to the nearest coastline (including oceanic islands, but not lakes) with red spots marking the poles of inaccessibility of main land masses, Britain, and the Iberian Peninsula. Thin isolines are 250 km apart; thick lines… …   Wikipedia

• Pole-Axe (Gladiators) — Infobox Gladiators Event Event Name = Eliminator| |thumb width = 320px c Int. Year = 1994 origin country= flag|United Kingdom Used In = flag|United Kingdom Last Used = 1998 num cont = 1 num glad = 1Pole Axe was an event played in the UK version… …   Wikipedia

• pole — [[t]po͟ʊl[/t]] ♦♦♦ poles 1) N COUNT A pole is a long thin piece of wood or metal, used especially for supporting things. The truck crashed into a telegraph pole... He reached up with a hooked pole to roll down the metal shutter. 2) N COUNT The… …   English dictionary

• pole */*/ — UK [pəʊl] / US [poʊl] noun [countable] Word forms pole : singular pole plural poles 1) a long thin stick, often used for holding or supporting something There were rows of poles supporting young bean plants. 2) one of two things that are… …   English dictionary

• pole float — a very small and sensitive float with a thin tip, balsa wood body, a thin wire stem and about 15 20 cm long. Body up floats have a wider bulge at the top of the flat body, body down bulge at the bottom, slims have very long and thin bodies,… …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• pole — There are two separate words pole in English. Pole ‘long thin piece of wood’ [OE] comes from a pre historic Germanic *pāl (source also of German pfahl, Dutch paal, and Swedish påla). This was borrowed from Latin pālus ‘stake’, from which English… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• pole — There are two separate words pole in English. Pole ‘long thin piece of wood’ [OE] comes from a pre historic Germanic *pāl (source also of German pfahl, Dutch paal, and Swedish påla). This was borrowed from Latin pālus ‘stake’, from which English… …   Word origins

• pole*/ — [pəʊl] noun [C] 1) a long thin stick, often used for holding or supporting something There were rows of poles supporting young bean plants.[/ex] 2) one of the points on the very top or bottom of the Earth, called the North Pole and the South Pole …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• pole·cat — /ˈpoʊlˌkæt/ noun, pl cats [count] 1 : a European animal that has dark brown fur and a long thin body and that gives off a bad smell to defend itself 2 US, informal : ↑skunk …   Useful english dictionary