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 |
polar body | a small cell containing little cytoplasm that is produced along with the oocyte and later discarded |
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 |
taps lights-out | (military) signal to turn the lights out |
polar circle | a line of latitude at the north or south poles |
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 |
Aurora | (Roman mythology) goddess of the dawn, counterpart of Greek Eos |
aurora | an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force |
aurora australis southern lights | the aurora of the southern hemisphere |
aurora borealis northern lights | the aurora of the northern hemisphere |
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 |
lights-out | a prescribed bedtime |
c dawn dawning morning aurora first light daybreak break of day break of the day dayspring sunrise sunup cockcrow a | the first light of day, we got up before dawn, they talked until morning |
b Hanukkah Hanukah Hannukah Chanukah Chanukkah Channukah Channukkah Festival of Lights Feast of Lights Feast of Dedication Feast of the Dedication | (Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in BC |
polar | having a pair of equal and opposite charges |
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 |
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 |