Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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perch | Yes | No | Yes | No |
pole | Yes | No | Yes | No |
perch (noun) | pole (noun) |
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spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes | a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic |
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes | one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated |
support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird) | a long fiberglass sports implement used for pole vaulting |
any of numerous fishes of America and Europe | a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves |
an elevated place serving as a seat | one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions |
a linear measure of 16.5 feet | one of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface |
a square rod of land | one of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and the celestial sphere |
a linear measure of 16.5 feet | |
a square rod of land |
perch (verb) | pole (verb) |
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sit, as on a branch | deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole |
cause to perch or sit | propel with a pole |
to come to rest, settle | support on poles |