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Definition: Bole |
BoleNoun1. A soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment). 2. The main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber. 3. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bole" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A tree stem once it has grown to substantial thickness, roughly, capable of yielding saw timber, veneer logs or large poles. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Any of several varieties of compact earthy clay (impure halloysite), usually red, yellow, or brown because of the presence of iron oxide, and consisting essentially of hydrous silicates of aluminum or less often of magnesium. It is a waxy decomposition product of basaltic rocks, havingthe variable composition of lateritic clays. Syn:bolar. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BoleSynonyms: tree trunk (n), trunk (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: boluses (medicine). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Whole | Bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages; trunk, torso, bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part, main part; essential part; (importance).; lion's share, Benjamin's mess; the long and the short; nearly, all, almost all. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bole |
| English words defined with "bole": Bolar, Bole Armoniac ♦ tree trunk, trunk. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bole": FALLER II, feller operator, front face ♦ jigger-board ♦ stumper-feller ♦ TREE-SHEAR OPERATOR ♦ virgin face. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bole": Bulrush. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bole" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (ball, testicle). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Paiso Bole Chhe (1977) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Operating in the South China, March 1965. It had recently launched strikes against North Vietnam. Carriers present are (clockwise from bottom): Ranger (CVA-61), Yorktown (CVS-10), Coral Sea (CVA-43) and Hancock (CVA-19). The guided missile cruiser Canberra (CAG-2) is in the center of the formation. The destroyer screen includes: England (DLG-22), Gurke (DD-783), Rodgers (DD-876), Walker (DD-517), O'Bannon (DD-450), Somers (DD-947), Jenkins (DD-447), John A. Bole (DD-755), Higbee (DD-806), Buck (DD-761), Joseph Strauss (DDG-16) and Small (DD-838). This photograph was specially posed, and does not represent a normal operating formation. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Bole" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bole" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bole" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bole | Last name | 300 | 27,967 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "bole": armenian bole ♦ Bole Armoniac ♦ bole scar ♦ Lemnian bole ♦ window bole. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bole | 54 |
bole sun glasses | 8 |
bole melayu | 5 |
bole chudiyan | 5 |
airport bole international | 3 |
airport bole | 2 |
bole ny | 2 |
bole pipe yello | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bole"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | trung (body, log, lump, opaque, skid, stem, stock, stump, torso, trunk). (various references) | |
Arabic | ساق (drive, leg, shank, trunk). (various references) | |
Basque | enbor. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ствол (quill, shaft, shank, stem, stock, trunk). (various references) | |
Czech | kmen (base, radical, stem, stock, strain, tribe). (various references) | |
Danish | bul (boll, shaft, trunk), bolus (bolus), boli (bolus), stamme (stem, trunk). (various references) | |
Dutch | stam (clan, ethnic group, race, radical, root, stem, tree-trunk, tribe, trunk). (various references) | |
Farsi | گل مختوم , گل رس , خاک رس (Clay, Pug). (various references) | |
Finnish | runko (frame, fuselage, hull, skeleton, stem, trunk). (various references) | |
French | fût (body, boll). (various references) | |
German | baumstamm (log, stem, tree trunk, trunk). (various references) | |
Greek | Κορμός (boll, shaft, trunk), κορμόσ δέντρου, βώλος (clod, lump), βλωμός (bolus), μπουκιά (mouthful, nosegay), μεγάλο χάπι (bolus). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fatörzs (butt, log, stock, stool, tree trunk, trunk). (various references) | |
Italian | tronco (body, frustum, log, stem, stock, torso, tree-trunk, trunk). (various references) | |
Manx | far-uinnag (alcove, ambry, false window, recess). (various references) | |
Occitan | tronc (tree trunk), soc (tree trunk). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | olebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bolo alimentar (bolus), tronco (body, bulk, frustum, stem, tree-trunk, trunk), pílula grande (bolus), fuste (shaft), caule (haulm, stalk, stem), argila (argil, bind, clay, earthenware, gumbo, loam, puddle, pug). (various references) | |
Russian | ствол (barrel, shaft, stem, trunk), болюс. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | torzo (torso, trunk), stablo (scape, trunk). (various references) | |
Spanish | tronco (barrel, body, frustum, log, pair, stem, stock, tree-trunk, trunk). (various references) | |
Swedish | trädstam (tree trunk, trunk), stam (clan, counterfoil, family, stem, stock, tribe, trunk). (various references) | |
Thai | ท่อหรือลำต้นของต้นไม้. (various references) | |
Turkish | ağaç gövdesi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стовбур (body, shaft, stem, trunk), бол, пень (scrag, stub, stump). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Judges Chapter 6, Verse 28 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai wrqrisan oi andreV thV polewV to prwi kai idou kateskammenon to qusiasthrion tou baal kai to alsoV to ep' autw ekkekommenon kai o moscoV o siteutoV anhnegmenoV eiV olokautwma epi to qusiasthrion to wkodomhmenon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cumque surrexissent viri oppidi eius mane viderunt destructam aram Baal lucumque succisum et taurum alterum inpositum super altare quod tunc aedificatum erat |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne the men of his burgh toun erly weren rysen, thei seen the auter of Baal destruyed, and the `mawmet woode hewun doun, and another bole set vpon the auter, that thanne was bild vp. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the men of the town got up early in the morning, and they saw the altar of Baal broken down, and the holy tree which was by it cut down, and the ox offered on the altar which had been put up there. |
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| Language | Judges Chapter 6, Verse 28 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa diha nga misayo pagmata sa buntag ang mga tawo sa ciudad, ania karon, ang halaran ni Baal nabungkag na, ug ang Ashera nga tupad niana gipuril, ug ang ikaduha ka torong vaca gihalad sa ibabaw sa halaran nga gitukod. |
| Chinese | 城 裡 的 人 清 早 起 來 、 見 巴 力 的 壇 拆 毀 、 壇 旁 的 木 偶 下 、 第 二 隻 牛 獻 在 新 築 的 壇 上 、 |
| Croatian | Kad su graðani sutradan poranili, a to razoren Baalov žrtvenik i gaj posjeèen pored njega, a junac žrtvovan kao paljenica na novom oltaru. |
| Danish | Da Byens Folk næste Morgen tidlig så Ba'alsalteret nedbrudt, Asjerastøtten ved Siden af hugget om og Tyren ofret på det nybyggede Alter, |
| Dutch | Als nu de mannen van die stad des morgens vroeg opstonden, ziet, zo was het altaar van Baal omgeworpen, en de haag, die daarbij was, afgehouwen, en die tweede var was op het gebouwde altaar geofferd. |
| Finnish | Kun kaupungin miehet varhain seuraavana aamuna nousivat, niin katso, Baalin alttari oli kukistettu ja asera-karsikko sen vierestä hakattu maahan, ja se toinen härkä oli uhrattu polttouhriksi vastarakennetulla alttarilla. |
| French | Lorsque les gens de la ville se furent levés de bon matin, voici, l`autel de Baal était renversé, le pieu sacré placé dessus était abattu, et le second taureau était offert en holocauste sur l`autel qui avait été bâti. |
| German | Da nun die Leute in der Stadt des Morgens früh aufstanden, siehe, da war der Altar Baals zerbrochen und das Ascherabild dabei abgehauen und der andere Farre ein Brandopfer auf dem Altar, der gebaut war. |
| Haitian Creole | Lè mesye yo ki rete nan lavil la leve granmaten, yo wè lotèl Baal la kraze, poto Achera a koupe, epi dezyèm towo a menm boule sou lotèl yo te bati la a. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ketika penduduk kota itu bangun keesokan paginya, mereka melihat mezbah untuk Baal dan tiang perlambang Dewi Asyera sudah roboh. Mereka melihat juga bahwa di tempat itu telah dibangun sebuah mezbah dan telah pula dibakar sapi jantan sebagai kurban. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka pada pagi-pagi hari, apabila bangunlah orang isi negeri itu, heran, maka mezbah Baal telah roboh, dan hutan yang dekat di situ telah ditebang, dan lembu muda yang kedua itupun telah dikorbankan di atas mezbah yang baharu dibangunkan. |
| Maori | Na, i te marangatanga ake o nga tangata o te pa i te ata, rere! kua wahia iho te aata a Paara, kua oti te motu nehenehe i tona taha te tua, kua oti hoki te tuarua o nga puru te whakaeke ki te aata i hanga ra. |
| Norwegian | Da mennene i byen stod op tidlig om morgenen, fikk de se at Ba'als alter var nedrevet, og at Astarte-billedet som stod ved siden av, var hugget ned, og at den andre okse var ofret på det alter som var bygget. |
| Portuguese | Levantando-se, pois, os homens daquela cidade, de madrugada, eis que estava o altar de Baal derribado, cortada a asera que estivera ao pé dele, e o segundo boi oferecido no altar que fora edificado. |
| Rumanian | Cknd s`au sculat oamenii din cetate dis de dimineayq, iatq cq altarul lui Baal era dqrkmat, parul knchinat idolului deasupra lui era tqiat; wi al doilea taur era adus ca ardere de tot pe altarul care fusese zidit. |
| Russian | рПХФТХ ЧУФБМЙ ЦЙФЕМЙ ЗПТП"Б, Й ЧПФ, ЦЕТФЧЕООЙЛ чББМПЧ ТБЪТХЫЕО, Й "ЕТЕЧП ТЙ ОЕН УТХ'МЕОП, Й ЧФПТПК ФЕМЕ" ЧПЪОЕУЕО ЧП ЧУЕУПЦЦЕОЙЕ ОБ ОПЧПХУФТПЕООПН ЦЕТФЧЕООЙЛЕ. |
| Spanish | Cuando por la mañana se levantaron los hombres de la ciudad, he aquí que el altar de Baal había sido derribado, el árbol ritual de Asera que estaba junto a él había sido cortado, y el segundo toro había sido ofrecido en holocausto sobre el altar edificado. |
| Swedish | Bittida följande morgon fingo mannen i staden se att Baals altare låg nedbrutet, att Aseran därinvid var sönderhuggen, och att den andra tjuren hade blivit offrad såsom brännoffer på det nyuppbyggda altaret. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bole": bolero, boleros, boles, bolete, boletes, boleti, boletus, boletuses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bole": amphibole, hyperbole, obole. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bole": amphiboles, embolectomies, embolectomy, gamboled, hyperboles, oboles, shibboleth, shibboleths, symboled. (additional references) | |
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"Bole" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abolie, bele, Bhoe, biolo, bioplex, ble, bloe, Bloem, bloge, blove, bloze, boal, bobe, bocla, Bodle, boe, Boell, boelo, bofe, boge, Bohley, boie, boilee, bol, Bolab, Bolah, Bolaji, bolcek, boled, bolen, boler, Bolet, bolex, Boley, bolg, boli, Bolla, bolle, Bollee, boller, bollex, Bolli, Bollo, bolm, boloe, bolp, bolr, Bolsen, bolte, bolu, bolve, Bolx, boly, Bolz, bome, Bonlieu, booe, boola, boolie, booly, Borle, bose, botle, boue, boula, Boulay, Bouley, bove, bovl, bovle, bowle, boxe, boye, boyla, boze, buel, bule, bulle, buloe, byle, ebola, Obel, obl, Oble, Obler, obli, obtle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bole" (pronounced bō"l) |
| 3 | b ō" l | Boll, bowl. |
| 2 | -ō" l | cajole, coal, Cole, control, decontrol, dhole, dole, droll, enroll, espanol, extol, foal, goal, hole, sole, soul, stole, stroll, knoll, Kohl, mole, ole, parole, patrol, pistole, pole, poll, role, roll, scroll, skoal, thole, tole, toll, troll, whole. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lobe. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-l-o" | |
-1 letter: bel, lob, obe, ole. | |
-2 letters: be, bo, el, lo, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-l-o" | |
+1 letter: below, bloke, bogle, boles, botel, boule, bowel, coble, elbow, globe, lobed, lobes, noble, obeli, obole, roble. | |
+2 letters: albedo, beclog, befool, befoul, behold, behowl, bellow, belong, belows, benzol, blokes, blonde, blooey, blooie, blouse, blowed, blower, boatel, bobble, boggle, bogles, boiled, boiler, bolder, bolero, bolete, boleti, bolide, bolled, bolted, bolter, boodle, bordel, boreal, botels, bottle, boucle, boules, boulle, bowels, bowled, bowleg, bowler, cobble, cobles, corbel, doable, double, elbows, emboli, emboly, foible, globed, globes, gobble, goblet, hobble, lobate, lobbed, lobber, lobule, mobile, mobled, nobble, nobler, nobles, obelia, obelus, oblate, oblige, oboles, pueblo, reboil, robles, rouble, wobble. | |
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