Tube vs. Pole — What's the Difference?

A hollow cylinder, especially one that conveys a fluid or functions as a passage.

Either extremity of an axis through a sphere.

An organic structure having the shape or function of a tube; a duct

Either of the regions contiguous to the extremities of the earth's rotational axis, the North Pole or the South Pole.

A small flexible cylindrical container sealed at one end and having a screw cap at the other, for pigments, toothpaste, or other pastelike substances.

(Physics) See magnetic pole.

(Music) The cylindrical part of a wind instrument.

(Electricity) Either of two oppositely charged terminals, as in an electric cell or battery.

An electron tube.

(Astronomy) See celestial pole.

A vacuum tube.

Either extremity of the main axis of a nucleus, cell, or organism.

(Botany) The lower, cylindrical part of a gamopetalous corolla or a gamosepalous calyx.

Either end of the spindle formed in a cell during mitosis.

A tunnel.

The point on a nerve cell where a process originates.

An underground railroad system, especially the one in London, England.

Either of two antithetical ideas, propensities, forces, or positions.

The elongated space inside a wave when it is breaking.

A fixed point of reference.

An inner tube.

The origin in a polar coordinate system; the vertex of a polar angle.

An inflatable tube or cushion made of rubber or plastic and used for recreational riding, as behind a motor boat or down a snow-covered slope.

A point in the complex plane at which a given function is not defined.

Television

A long, relatively slender, generally rounded piece of wood or other material.

A television set.

The long tapering wooden shaft extending up from the front axle of a vehicle to the collars of the animals drawing it; a tongue.

Tubes(Informal) The fallopian tubes.

See rod.

To provide with a tube; insert a tube in.

A unit of area equal to a square rod.

To place in or enclose in a tube.

(Sports) The inside position on the starting line of a racetrack

To ride or float on an inflated tube for recreation.

A native or inhabitant of Poland.

Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.

A person of Polish ancestry.

An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.

To propel with a pole

The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)

To propel (oneself) or make (one's way) by the use of ski poles

(obsolete) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.

To support (plants) with a pole.

A tin can containing beer.

To strike, poke, or stir with a pole.

(surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.

To propel a boat or raft with a pole.

A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.

To use ski poles to maintain or gain speed.

An idiot.

Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.

(transitive) To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.

A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.

To ride an inner tube.

(angling) A type of basic fishing rod.

To intubate.

A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.

A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.

A telescope.

(historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (4 chain or 2 yards).

A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.

(motor racing) Pole position.

The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.

A gun.

A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.

(vulgar) A penis

A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.

Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.

A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.

A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).

A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway.

(geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.

To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.

(electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.

Conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases

(complex analysis) For a meromorphic function $f(z)$, any point $a$ for which $f(z)\; \backslash rightarrow\; \backslash infty$ as $z\; \backslash rightarrow\; a$.

Electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope

(obsolete) The firmament; the sky.

A hollow cylindrical shape

Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.

(anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure

To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.

Electric underground railway

To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.

Provide with a tube or insert a tube into

(transitive) To furnish with poles for support.

Convey in a tube;

(transitive) To convey on poles.

Ride or float on an inflated tube;

(transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

Place or enclose in a tube

To strike (the ball) very hard.

(transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.

A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.

A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.

A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5 yards, or a square measure equal to 30 square yards; a rod; a perch.

Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.

A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian.

One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle.

The firmament; the sky.

To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops.

To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.

To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.

To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

A long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic

A native or inhabitant of Poland

One of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions;

A linear measure of 16.5 feet

A square rod of land

One of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and the celestial sphere

One of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface

A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves

A long fiberglass sports implement used for pole vaulting

One of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated

Propel with a pole;

Support on poles;

Deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole