poles

Synonyms

pali polack Poland paling timber pillar perch bars columned canes magnetic pole stanchion poler staves Staffs

Phrases with the word

poles apart as far apart as the poles flattened at the poles between poles ski poles as wide as the poles apart

Examples

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students. Paulo Freire

Taoist philosophy ... is essentially monistic. ... Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole. Bruce Lee

He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice. Zadie Smith

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. Doug Larson

I spill water on myself all the time at nice restaurants. I've run into poles and knocked myself out. Kristin Kreuk

Steal beams and replace them with poles. Chinese Proverb