NORTH-SEEKING POLE Synonyms

• navigational instrument for finding directions

• an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:

• the limit of capability

• drafting instrument used for drawing circles

• bring about; accomplish

• travel around, either by plane or ship

• get the meaning of something

• a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed

• a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought

• somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected

• a branch of knowledge

• the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it

• a particular kind of commercial enterprise

• a particular environment or walk of life

• a piece of land prepared for playing a game

• extensive tract of level open land

• (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1

• a region in which active military operations are in progress

• all of the horses in a particular horse race

• all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

• a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found

• (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information

• the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

• a place where planes take off and land

• catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

• play as a fielder

• answer adequately or successfully

• select (a team or individual player) for a game

• (physics) a device that attracts iron and produces a magnetic field

• a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts

• of or relating to or caused by magnetism

• having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel

• capable of being magnetized

• determined by earth's magnetic fields

• possessing an extraordinary ability to attract

• the leaf of a conifer

• a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument

• a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)

• a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record

• annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism

• prick with a needle

• situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the north

• the region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line

• the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees

• a location in the northern part of a country, region, or city

• the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)

• British statesman under George III whose policies led to rebellion in the American colonies (1732-1792)

• the direction corresponding to the northward cardinal compass point

• the direction in which a compass needle points

• in a northern direction

• a wind that blows from the north

• in a northern direction

• oriented toward the north

• coming from the north; used especially of wind

• in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line

• situated in regions of the north

• a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans

• oriented toward the north

• coming from the north; used especially of wind

• 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

• the pole of a magnet that points toward the north when the magnet is suspended freely

• the terminal of a battery that is connected to the positive plate

• the pole of a magnet that points toward the north when the magnet is suspended freely