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• flag pole, flag-pole

語源

From flag +‎ pole. Cognate with West Frisian flaggepeal (“flagpole”), Dutch vlaggenpaal (“flagpole”), Low German Flaggenpohl (“flagpole”), German Flaggenpfahl (“flagpole”).

Compare also West Frisian flaggemast (“flagpole”, literally “flag-mast”), Dutch vlaggenmast (“flagpole”, literally “flag-mast”), Low German Flaggstock (“flagpole”, literally “flag-stick”), Danish flagstang (“flagpole”, literally “flag-pole”), Swedish flaggstång (“flagpole”, literally “flag-pole”), Norwegian flaggstang (“flagpole”, literally “flag-pole”), Faroese flaggstong (“flagpole”, literally “flag-pole”).

発音

• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ˈflæɡˌpoʊl/

名詞

flagpole (plural flagpoles)

1. A tall pole up which one or more flags may be raised and flown.

同意語

• flagmast
• flagstaff

派生語

• run something up the flagpole
• send it up the flagpole and see who salutes

動詞

flagpole (third-person singular simple present flagpoles, present participle flagpoling, simple past and past participle flagpoled)

1. (Canada, rare) To exit a country momentarily and reenter, usually in order to satisfy immigration requirements.
   • 2016, Beyhan Farhadi, “Identity and the City: Thinking Through Diversity”, in Jay Pitter, John Lorinc, editors, Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity:

     I understand immigrating to Canada is getting harder and harder. [The difficulty of navigating bureaucracy] might be a way to let people fall between the cracks. I really don't know. The hoops immigrants have to go through, such as flagpoling. And I don't have any political representatives. I didn't vote.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:flagpole.