Meaning

6 senses
  1. Of or having a pole or polarity, as:

    (not comparable)Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles.

    polar, polar

    поля́рныйpoljárnyj, по́люсныйpóljusnyj

    поля́рнийpoljárnyj, по́люснийpóljusnyj

    of or existing at or near a geographical pole or within the Arctic or Antarctic Circles

  2. (not comparable)Of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles.

    located at or near or coming from the earth's poles

  3. (not comparable)Having a dipole; ionic.

    polar

  4. (not comparable)Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and an angle.

    polar

    поля́рныйpoljárnyj

  5. (not comparable)Having but two possible answers, yes and no.

  6. (not comparable)Of or relating to a pole (extreme) on any spectrum or field, such as an ideologically pure dogmatic position as opposed to any syncretic integration or balancing of competing principles.

    polar viewpoints

Examples

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  1. Tom and Mary are polar opposites.

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  2. Are polar bears bigger than grizzlies?

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  3. Is that a polar bear?

    ruЭто белый медведь?

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  4. The penguin was eaten by a polar bear.

    Пінгвіна з'їв білий ведмідь.

    ruПингвина съел белый медведь.

    deDer Pinguin wurde von einem Eisbären gefressen.

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  5. A polar bear's nose is keen.

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Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
relating to a geographic pole:
Русский
By meaning 1
relating to a geographic pole:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
relating to a geographic pole:

Origin

Learned borrowing from Late Latin polāris. By surface analysis, pole + -ar.

Learned borrowing from Late Latin polāris. By surface analysis, pole + -ar.

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