poll
see also: Poll
Pronunciation Noun
Poll
Proper noun
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see also: Poll
Pronunciation Noun
poll (plural polls)
- A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
- A formal election.
- The student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria.
- All soldiers quartered in place are to remove […] and not to return till one day after the poll is ended.
- A polling place (usually, as plural, polling places)
- The polls close at 8 p.m.
- (now, rare, outside, veterinary contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- ...the doctor, as if to hear better, had taken off his powdered wig, and sat there, looking very strange indeed with his own close-cropped black poll.
- 1908, O. Henry, A Tempered Wind
- And you might perceive the president and general manager, Mr. R. G. Atterbury, with his priceless polished poll, busy in the main office room dictating letters..
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
- c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene i]:
- We are the greater poll, and in true fear / They gave us our demands.
- c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll.
- The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
- The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
- French: sondage
- German: Umfrage, Urne (ballot box)
- Italian: sondaggio, votazione, scrutinio
- Portuguese: enquete, sondagem, sugestões, inquérito, avaliação, votação, pesquisa
- Russian: опро́с
- Spanish: encuesta, sondeo
poll (polls, present participle polling; past and past participle polled)
- (transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
- (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
- (intransitive) To vote at an election.
- To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
- He polled a hundred votes more than his opponent.
- poll for points of faith his trusty vote
- To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
- to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass
- Who, as he polled off his dart's head, so sure he had decreed / That all the counsels of their war he would poll off like it.
- (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
- Bible, 2 Sam. xiv. 26
- when he [Absalom] polled his head
- His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs.
- Bible, 2 Sam. xiv. 26
- (transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
- To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
- to poll a tree
- (transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
- The network hub polled the department's computers to determine which ones could still respond.
- (intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
- 2008, Joanne McEvoy, The politics of Northern Ireland (page 171)
- The election was a resounding defeat for Robert McCartney who polled badly in the six constituencies he contested and even lost his own Assembly seat in North Down.
- 2008, Joanne McEvoy, The politics of Northern Ireland (page 171)
- (obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
- which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise
- To impose a tax upon.
- To pay as one's personal tax.
- the man that polled but twelve pence for his head
- To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
- 1649, [John] Milton, [Eikonoklastes] […], London: Printed by Matthew Simmons, […], OCLC 1044608640 ↗:
- polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms
- (legal) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation.
- a polled deed
- Italian: raccogliere voti
- Spanish: encuesta, encuestas
- Italian: tagliare le corna
- (of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.
- Poll Hereford
- Red Poll cows
- 1757, The monthly review, or, literary journal, volume 17, page 416:
- Sheep, that is, the Horned sort, and those without Horns, called Poll Sheep [...]
- 1960, Frank O'Loghlen, Frank H. Johnston, Cattle country: an illustrated survey of the Australian beef cattle industry, a complete directory of the studs, page 85:
- About 15000 cattle, comprising 10000 Hereford and Poll Hereford, 4000 Aberdeen Angus and 1000 Shorthorn and Poll Shorthorn, are grazed [...]
- 1970, The Pastoral review, volume 80, page 457:
- Otherwise, both horned and poll sheep continue to be bred from an inner stud.
- (British) IPA: /pɒl/
poll (plural polls)
- A pet parrot.
- IPA: /pɒl/
poll (plural polls)
- (UK, dated, Cambridge University) One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
Poll
Proper noun
- A female given name.
- 1833 The Pilgrim Brothers [signed Timotheus Scribewell], Romances of Chivalric Ages, H. Cope, page iv:
- "A gentleman, please Sir," said the blushing Mary, (or Poll as some unrespective and light-minded persons have misnamed her), and the gentleman entered.
- 1833 The Pilgrim Brothers [signed Timotheus Scribewell], Romances of Chivalric Ages, H. Cope, page iv:
- A common pet name for a parrot.
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