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# polar

«polar» in Mova's school dictionary: **To do with the North Pole or the South Pole, or the very…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (polar — no comparative)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To do with the North Pole or the South Pole, or the very cold areas around them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/#m1)

2) Completely opposite: "polar opposites". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/#m2)

3) In science, to do with the poles of a magnet or of the Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science, polar regions are the Arctic around the North Pole and the Antarctic around the South Pole; they are very cold, icy and have long days in summer and long nights in winter. Polar animals such as polar bears, penguins and seals are adapted to cold. Phrases: polar bear, polar region, polar ice caps, polar opposites, polar night.

### examples

- Polar bears live in the Arctic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/#x1)
- Penguins live in the southern polar region. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/#x2)
- The polar ice caps are melting as the Earth warms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/#x3)
- In polar winters the sun may not rise for weeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/#x4)
- My brother and I are polar opposites: he is loud and I am quiet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/#x5)
- Explorers need special clothes for polar journeys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/#x6)
- We made a model of a polar habitat in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/#x7)
- Birds from the Polar regions came flying here, and of course the stork and the swallow were not absent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/#x8)

### note

It is an adjective only; you cannot say "more polar" in normal use. "Polar" comes from "pole". Myth: polar bears and penguins do not live together; polar bears are in the Arctic (north) and penguins mostly in the Antarctic and the southern seas. "Polar opposites" means as different as can be.

### In the corpora

- [The soles of a polar bear's paws have fur and small bumps that grip the ice and keep the feet warm.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/11/)
- [Polar bears hunt seals by waiting at breathing holes for hours or even days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth/9/)
- [Polar bear skin is black and its fur is made of see-through hollow hairs that look white because they scatter light.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth/10/)
- [Utahraptor was about 6 metres long and as heavy as a polar bear, and lived earlier than Velociraptor; most raptors were small.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor/9/)
- [Polar bears live only in the Arctic and wild penguins only in the southern hemisphere, so they never meet in nature.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «polar» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.