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# polar

adjective (polar — no comparative)

«polar» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To do with the North Pole or the South Pole, or the very cold areas around them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/#m1)
2. Completely opposite: "polar opposites". [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/#m3)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/#x1)
- Penguins live in the southern polar region. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/#x2)
- The polar ice caps are melting as the Earth warms. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/#x3)
- In polar winters the sun may not rise for weeks. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/#x5)
- Explorers need special clothes for polar journeys. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/#x6)
- We made a model of a polar habitat in class. [tree →](https://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://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «polar» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polar/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«polar» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/polar.html) on Mova free.