ice bear
polar bear
Ursus Maritimus
Thalarctos maritimus | white bear of Arctic regions |
polar hare
Arctic hare
Lepus arcticus | a large hare of northern North America, it is almost completely white in winter |
| distance | the property created by the space between two objects or points |
| mean distance | the arithmetic mean of the maximum and minimum distances of a celestial body (satellite or secondary star) from its primary |
focal distance
focal length | the distance from a lens to its focus |
| hyperfocal distance | the distance in front of a lens that is focused at infinity beyond which all objects are well defined and clear |
| distance length | size of the gap between two places, the distance from New York to Chicago, he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points |
| skip distance | the shortest distance that permits radio signals (of a given frequency) to travel from the transmitter to the receiver by reflection from the ionosphere |
| polar body | a small cell containing little cytoplasm that is produced along with the oocyte and later discarded |
| distance vision | vision for objects that afeet or more from the viewer |
| middle distance | the part of a scene between the foreground and the background |
| polar coordinate | either of two values that locate a point on a plane by its distance from a fixed pole and its angle from a fixed line passing through the pole |
long distance
long-distance call
trunk call | a telephone call made outside the local calling area, I talked to her by long distance |
distance
aloofness | indifference by personal withdrawal, emotional distance |
| polar circle | a line of latitude at the north or south poles |
| distance | a distant region, I could see it in the distance |
Frigid Zone
polar zone
polar region | the part of the Earth's surface forming a cap over a pole, characterized by frigid climate |
| polar glacier | a glacier near the Arctic or Antarctic poles |
Polaris
North Star
pole star
polar star
polestar | the brightest star in Ursa Minor, at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper, the northern axis of the earth points toward it |
marathoner
marathon runner
road runner
long-distance runner | someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons) |
cold front
polar front | the front of an advancing mass of colder air |
| polar opposition | an opposition that can be graded between two extremes or poles |
| angular distance | the angular separation between two objects as perceived by an observer, he recorded angular distances between the stars |
distance
space | the interval between two times, the distance from birth to death, it all happened in the space ofminutes |
| distance | a remote point in time, if that happens it will be at some distance in the future, at a distance of ten years he had forgotten many of the details |
outdistance
outstrip
distance | go far ahead of, He outdistanced the other runners |
stand back
keep one's eyes off
keep one's distance
keep one's hands off
stay away | stay clear of, avoid, Keep your hands off my wife!, Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous |
| distance | keep at a distance, we have to distance ourselves from these events in order to continue living |
| polar | having a pair of equal and opposite charges |
| long-distance | covering a long distance, a long-distance runner, a long-distance freight train, she ran off with a long-distance truck driver |
pivotal
polar | being of crucial importance, a pivotal event, Its pivotal location has also exposed it to periodic invasions- Henry Kissinger, the polar events of this study, a polar principal |
arctic
frigid
gelid
glacial
icy
polar | extremely cold, an arctic climate, a frigid day, gelid waters of the North Atlantic, glacial winds, icy hands, polar weather |
diametric diametrical opposite
polar | characterized by opposite extremes, completely opposed, in diametric contradiction to his claims, diametrical (or opposite) points of view, opposite meanings, extreme and indefensible polar positions |
| polar | of or existing at or near a geographical pole or within the Arctic or Antarctic Circles, polar regions |
north-polar
Arctic | of or relating to the Arctic, the Arctic summer |
south-polar
Antarctic | at or near the south pole |
| long-distance | of or relating to or being a long-distance telephone call, a long-distance call, a long-distance transmission line, a long-distance operator |
| polar | located at or near or coming from the earth's poles, polar diameter, polar zone, a polar air mass, Antarctica is the only polar continent |