Dictionary Definition
poll
Noun
1 an inquiry into public opinion conducted by
interviewing a random sample of people [syn: opinion
poll, public
opinion poll, canvass]
3 the part of the head between the ears
4 a tame parrot [syn: poll
parrot]
5 the counting of votes (as in an election)
Verb
2 vote in an election at a polling station
3 get the votes of
4 convert into a pollard; "pollard trees" [syn:
pollard]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology 1
From polle, (recorded in English since c.1290), from or pol. Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1625, from notion of "counting heads"Noun
- An election or a
survey of a particular
group.
- The student council had a poll to see what people want served
in the cafeteria.
- The network hub polled the department's computers to determine which ones could still respond.
- The student council had a poll to see what people want served
in the cafeteria.
- a place voters cast
ballots
- The polls close at 8 p.m.
- Hair
- 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.
- 1883: Robert
Louis Stevenson, Treasure
Island
Synonyms
- sense election or survey election, survey
- sense hair hair
Derived terms
Translations
An election or a survey of a particular group
- Croatian: anketa
- Finnish: äänestys, mielipidemittaus
- Greek: δημοσκόπηση (dimoskópisi)
place to vote
- Greek: κάλπη (kálpi)
Verb
- To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
Translations
To solicit mock votes from (a person or group)
- Dutch: peilen
- Finnish: suorittaa mielipidetutkimus
Translations
Noun
- A tame parrot.
References
- Websters}}
Etymology 1
Extensive Definition
Poll or polling may refer to:
Figurative head counts
- Polling, voting
- Opinion poll
- The polls, polling stations
- Poll tax, a tax on each person
- Polling (computer science), sequential interrogation of devices
Other
- Poll (livestock), the top of the head
- Polled livestock, normally-horned animals that have no horns
- Polling or pollarding, cutting the upper part of a tree and allowing it to regrow
- Polling (metallurgy), removing oxides when refining a metal
People
- Graham Poll (born 1963), British referee
- Silvia Poll Ahrens (born 1970), Central American swimmer – with Olympic medal
- Claudia Poll (born 1972), Central American swimmer – with Olympic gold medal
Places
- German towns in Bavaria
- Austrian municipalities
- Polling in Tirol
- Polling im Innkreis, in Upper Austria
poll in German: Polling
poll in Dutch: Poll
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Australian ballot, Hare system, VAT, abbreviate, abridge, abstract, ad valorem duty,
agenda, alcohol tax,
amusement tax, ask,
assessment on default, aye,
ballot, ballot box,
balloting place, beadroll, bean, belfry, bob, boil down, book, brow, cadastre, calendar, call off, call over,
call the roll, canvass,
canvassing, capital
gains tax, capitation, capitation tax,
capsulize, carve, cast a ballot, casting
vote, catalog, census, census report, chalk, chalk up, check in,
checklist, checkroll, chronicle, chump, clip, compress, condense, conduct a poll,
conk, consumer research,
consumer-preference survey, contract, corporation tax,
count, counting heads,
crop, crown, cumulative voting, curtail, customs, customs duty, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off
short, cut short, death duty, death tax, deciding vote, divide, division, dock, docket, dome, doomage, dramatis personae,
duty, election returns,
elide, enfranchisement,
engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, enumerate, epitomize, estate duty, estate
tax, excess profits tax, excise, excise tax, export tax,
fagot vote, federal tax, figures, file, fill out, foliate, foreshorten, franchise, gabelle, get, gift tax, grave, graveyard vote, hand vote,
head, head count, head tax,
headpiece, honor roll,
impanel, import tax,
incise, income tax,
index, inheritance tax,
inquiry, inscribe, insert, internal revenue tax,
interview, jot down,
jury list, jury panel, land tax, landslide, lineup, liquor tax, list, list system, local tax,
log, luxury tax, make a
memorandum, make a note, make a survey, make an entry, make out,
mark down, matriculate, measure, minute, mow, muster, muster roll, nay, nip, no, noddle, noggin, nontransferable vote,
noodle, nose count,
note, note down, nuisance
tax, number, numerate, official count,
opinion poll, order of business, page, paginate, pate, personal property tax, place
upon record, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plump, plumper, plural vote, poll tax,
pollard, pollbook, polling, polling booth, polling
place, polling station, polls, post, post up, preferential voting,
program, property roll,
property tax, property-increment tax, proportional representation,
protective tariff, provincial tax, proxy, prune, public-opinion poll, put
down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, quantify, quantize, question, questionary, questionnaire, rates, reap, recap, recapitulate, receive, record, record vote, recount, reduce, reduce to writing,
referendum, register, representation, retrench, returns, revenue tariff,
ridge, right to vote,
rising vote, roll, roll
call, roster, rota, run over, sales tax, salt
tax, sample, say, school tax, sconce, scroll, secret ballot, set down,
severance tax, shave,
shear, shorten, show of hands, single
vote, snap vote, snub,
specific duty, state tax, straw vote, stunt, suffrage, sum up, summarize, survey, synopsize, tabulate, take down, take in,
tally, tape, tape-record, tariff, tariff duty, tax roll,
telephone tax, telescope, tell, tidal wave, transferable
vote, trim, truncate, use tax, value added
tax, videotape, viva
voce, voice, voice vote,
vote, voting, voting booth, voting
machine, voting right, win,
window tax, write, write
down, write in, write out, write up, write-in, write-in vote,
yea, yeas and nays, yes