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Definition: Flagpole |
FlagpoleNoun1. Surveying instrument consisting of a straight rod painted in bands of alternate red and white each one foot wide; used for sightings by surveyors. 2. A tall staff or pole on which a flag is raised. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flagpole" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references) |
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Electrical Engineering | A black horizontal or vertical line used in a television test pattern ; a horizontal or vertical line produced on a TV screen by a bar generator and used to check linearity. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: FlagpoleSynonyms: flagstaff (n), range pole (n), ranging pole (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Experiment | Phrase: check it out, give it a try, see how it goes; "Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes." |
Foresight | Phrase: cernit omnia Deus vindex; mihi cura futuri; run it up the flagpole and see who salutes. |
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Crosswords: Flagpole |
| English words defined with "flagpole": flag ♦ pin. (references) |
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Lyrics | I’m the flagpole to your nation (Brand New Day; performing artist: Sting) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Flagpole Jitters (1956) | |
Song Titles | Flagpole Sitta (performing artist: Harvey Danger) | |
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 | Under construction by James Eads, at St. Louis, Missouri, prior to October 1861. This view looks along the main deck on one gunboat, with its boilers in the foreground and casemate timbers at the sides. Another vessel is beyond, with some spar deck beams atop the casemate side timbers and upright framing in place for her wheel box. The four ships of this class built at St. Louis were Carondelet, Louisville, Pittsburg and Saint Louis. Note flagpole in the left background. Credit: NAVY. |  | During a visit to the Naval Training Station, Newport, Rhode Island, circa 1923. Also present in the front row are Lieutenant Commander Charleton E. Battle, Jr., of the Newport Training Station, and Rear Admiral Clarence S. Williams, President of the Naval War College. Standing behind and to the left of Mr. Roosevelt is Commander Robert L. Ghormley, Aide to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Note old, and well-polished, Dahlgren boat howitzers flanking the flagpole. Credit: NAVY. |
 | The Union Jack being hoisted on an Italian flagpole in Benghazi after the city's recapture, showing British soldiers saluting. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut. General view to flagpole. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | U.S. Supreme Court exteriors. Base of flagpole at U.S. Supreme Court. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Flagpole" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Flagpole" is used about 31 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% | 31 | 62,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "flagpole": run it up the flagpole and see who salutes. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "flagpole"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shtizë flamuri (flagstaff). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | флагщок (flagstaff). (various references) | |
Czech | stožár (flagstaff, mast, pylon, spar). (various references) | |
Danish | bjælke (beam, girder). (various references) | |
Dutch | balk (girder, beam). (various references) | |
Finnish | raita (streak, stripe), palkki (baulk, beam). (various references) | |
French | barre (flat). (various references) | |
German | Fahnenmast (flagstaff). (various references) | |
Greek | ράβδωση (stria, stripe), ιστόσ σημαίασ (flagstaff), μπάρα (bar, barrier). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוט הדגל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | zászlórúd (flagstaff). (various references) | |
Italian | stelo (stalk, stem), pennone (pennon, yard), barra (rod, bar). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 旗竿 (flagstaff). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はたざお (flagstaff). (various references) | |
Manx | croan cullee. (various references) | |
Norwegian | flaggstang. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agpoleflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mastro de bandeira (flag mast, flagstaff), barra (bar, beam, stripe). (various references) | |
Russian | флагшток (flagstaff). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | jarbol za zastavu (flagstaff). (various references) | |
Spanish | polo de bandera, barra (bar, rod), asta de bandera (flagstaff), asta (horn, pole, shaft, spear, stele). (various references) | |
Swedish | flaggstång (flagstaff). (various references) | |
Turkish | bayrak direği (flagstaff, flagstick, pole, shaft). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | флагшток (flagstaff, staff). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flagpole": flagpoles. (additional references) | |
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"Flagpole" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fagioli, Faipule, fllagpole, Folarpilo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flagpole" (pronounced fla"gpō'l) |
| 3 | -p ō' l | dipole, Tadpole, monopole, redpoll. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-l-l-o-p" | |
-2 letters: gallop. | |
-3 letters: fella, galop, lapel, legal, plage. | |
-4 letters: alef, aloe, egal, fall, feal, fell, flag, flap, flea, floe, flog, flop, foal, gale, gall, gaol, gape, glop, goal, golf, leaf, leal, leap, loaf, loge, lope, ogle, olea, olla, opal, page, pale, pall, peag, peal, pelf, plea, pole, poll. | |
-5 letters: age, ago, ale, all, alp, ape. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-g-l-l-o-p" | |
+1 letter: flagpoles. | |
+4 letters: profligately. | |
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