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a telegraph/electricity pole; A flag fluttered from a 40-foot pole; a tent pole; These poles will be easier to carry if we lash them together with a rope.

She won silver in the pole vault; World pole vault champion; Four years later he finished fourth in the pole vault contest.

He vaulted over the gate.; She vaulted the wall and kept running; He has vaulted 6.02 m in indoor competitions this year.

The speech vaulted him into the national spotlight; His impressive fundraising vaulted him into the top tier of candidates; vault into sth - Can these small firms vault into the big league?

The museum keeps many of its treasures in temperature-controlled storage vaults.; a bank vault; She entered the vault with an armed guard.; Buyers often store gold in a bank vault; The storage vaults will be able to store 100,000 metric tons of gas.

a vaulted ceiling; a vaulted room

After the explosion, nothing of the walls or vaulting remained intact.

He sacrificed his marriage to his vaulting political ambition.

paper money and coins that are kept by a bank to use to pay customers exchanging cheques for money, etc

The rich spend more than the poor on VATable goods; You must add VAT to any VATable sales,

Ceilings are placed on interest rates by the government to provide firms with cheap capital.; The $7.4 trillion national debt ceiling is likely to be reached in the next few days.

Women have made scant progress in breaking through the glass ceiling to reach top corporate executive and boardroom positions; In practice, however, many women are still hitting their head against the so-called glass ceiling.

These two men might be thought to represent the opposite poles of economic ideology.

My sister and I are poles apart in personality.

Alonso is in pole position for today's Monaco Grand Prix.

Details of the payout will be contained in a circular to be sent to shareholders next month. To raise awareness the committee distributed 10,000 circulars and spent £100 per week on advertisements in fourteen different newspapers.

One man built a circular barn for his cows.; The circular area is used for parking.

The property includes two fine twelfth-century timber barns, once used for storing grain. (raczej nie dotyczy zwierząt - w przykładach jest tylko jedno o zwierzętach)

Bees pollinate the plants by carrying the pollen from one flower to another; Many species of tree depend on the wind for pollination.

She gets really bad hay fever; hay fever sufferers

Activities include fishing, paddle boat rentals, hayrides, dances, miniature golf and a 27-hole golf course

grains of wheat/rice; A tornado destroyed grain crops across much of the Midwest.; Wheat and rye are two common grains used in making bread.

Definition: a crop such as wheat and corn that is grown for food; Ultra-high prices of metals, grains and energy spurred production and stifled consumption.

grains of sand; There wasn't a grain of truth in anything she said.; Anyone with a grain of common sense would have known what to do.; You haven’t got a grain of sense.

to cut something along/against the grain

he main crops grown for export are coffee and rice; The carrots have cropped (= grown) well this year.; Apple growers celebrated their biggest crop ever last year.

Definition - another - a plant such as a grain, vegetable, or fruit grown in large amounts on a farm, or the total amount gathered of such a plant

We’ve got a new crop of students coming in every year.

The main crops grown for export are coffee and rice; Genetically modified crops continue to be controversial; Last year there was a bumper crop of maize (= a very large one).

Cotton was our cash crop.; Rice is now the main cash crop of nine-tenths of the farmers in Punjab.

These days it goes against the grain to show too much respect for authority.

With this new book, she is going against the flow.

Her name keeps cropping up in conversation.

Wheat and rye are two common grains used in making bread.

to make good use of an opportunity while it lasts

He polished the hardwood floor. I'll just give my shoes a quick polish.

It's a lively, good-hearted film but it lacks a little polish.; This is a musical with polish and wit.

He rubbed (at) the stain on his trousers and made it worse; We rubbed some polish into the surface of the wood; She was rubbing her hands (together) at the thought of winning; My new shoes are rubbing (against/on my toe) and now I've got blisters.

She got good reviews for her original cooking, but the rub was that people wanted very traditional dishes.

You can't get a job unless you have experience, but there's the rub, you can't get experience unless you have a job.

He gave her hair a good rub to dry it.

He polished off two burgers and a mountain of French fries.

I write a rough draft on the computer and then polish it up a bit.