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Polar   /pˈoʊlər/   Listen
Polar

adjective
1.
Having a pair of equal and opposite charges.
2.
Characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed.  Synonyms: diametric, diametrical, opposite.  "Diametrical (or opposite) points of view" , "Opposite meanings" , "Extreme and indefensible polar positions"
3.
Located at or near or coming from the earth's poles.  "Polar zone" , "A polar air mass" , "Antarctica is the only polar continent"
4.
Of or existing at or near a geographical pole or within the Arctic or Antarctic Circles.  Antonym: equatorial.
5.
Extremely cold.  Synonyms: arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy.  "A frigid day" , "Gelid waters of the North Atlantic" , "Glacial winds" , "Icy hands" , "Polar weather"
6.
Being of crucial importance.  Synonym: pivotal.  "Its pivotal location has also exposed it to periodic invasions" , "The polar events of this study" , "A polar principal"



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"Polar" Quotes from Famous Books



... hurried home to our dug-out. Doe was already in possession of his mail, so, having wrapped ourselves in blankets to defeat the polar atmosphere, we crouched over a smoking oil-stove and ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond
... follows of the employments of the Polar night—of the journeys of the natives by moonlight, drawn by rein-deer, and of the return of ...
— Lectures on the English Poets - Delivered at the Surrey Institution • William Hazlitt
... hallow'd fane, Stranger to Phoebus, and the tuneful train? Far from the Muses' academic grove 'Twas his the vast and trackless deep to rove; Alternate change of climates has he known, And felt the fierce extremes of either zone: Where polar skies congeal the eternal snow, Or equinoctial suns for ever glow, 50 Smote by the freezing, or the scorching blast, 'A ship-boy on the high and giddy mast,' [1] From regions where Peruvian billows roar, To the bleak coasts of savage Labrador; ...
— The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer - With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes • Rev. George Gilfillan [Ed.]
... and to triumph shy, Fair Victory named him from the polar sky. Fanes to the gods, to men he manners gave; Rest to the sword, and respite to the brave; So high could ne'er Herculean power aspire: The god should bend his looks to the Tarpeian fire." [Footnote: Book ix. ...
— The Old Roman World • John Lord
... suspecting that the north star was somewhat wilfully shifting from the magnetic pole, now to a distance of 5 deg. and then of 10 deg., the calculations of modern astronomers have gauged the polar distance existing in 1492 at 3 deg. 28', as against the 1 deg. 20' of to-day. The confusion of Columbus was very like his confounding an old world with a new, inasmuch as he supposed it was the pole star and not ...
— Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers • Various


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