poll
poll
Definition
poll (pōl)
noun
- the head; esp., the crown, back, or hair of the head
- an individual person, esp. one among several
- a counting, listing, or register of persons, esp. of voters
- a voting or expression of opinion by individuals
- the amount of voting; number of votes recorded
- ☆ a place where votes are cast and recorded
- ☆
- a canvassing of a selected or random group of people to collect information, or to attempt to discover public opinion
- a report or record of the results of this
- the blunt or flat end, as of an ax
Etymology: ME pol < or akin to MDu, top of the head, head
transitive verb
- to cut off or cut short
- to cut off or trim the wool, hair, horns, or branches of; specif., to pollard (a tree)
- to take or register the votes of to poll a county
- to require each member of (a jury, committee, etc.) to declare his or her vote individually
- to receive (a specified number or proportion of votes)
- to cast (a vote)
- to canvass in a poll (sense )
intransitive verb
to vote in an election
poll′er noun
poll
Synonyms
poll
n.
poll
Synonyms
poll
Usage Examples
Object
- vote: In the last Swedish general election, the fascist Sweden Democrats polled 19,600 votes.
Converse of object
- conduct: I conducted a poll among my friends, texting them to ask " Who is James Blake?
- commission: Back in 2002, you may recall, the BBC commissioned a telephone poll of viewers to find the greatest Briton of all time.
- boycott: If this is so, then how come several major parties and the majority of Sunnis in central Iraq boycotted the poll?
- delete: If no one has cast a vote then users can delete the poll or edit any poll option.
Adjective modifier
- straw: A straw poll of New Insight staff in the office on one day showed that 100 per cent had tried it.
- infamous: ROCKTASTIC MONTHLY - METAL HAMMER are conducting their infamous readers poll.
- recent: The result was repeated at the most recent poll in March 2003.
- nationwide: A nationwide poll suggests most people would like the government to take more action to improve public health.
- presidential: Putin then won the presidential poll in March 2000.
- pre-election: The result is exactly in line with the pre-election polls.
Modifies a noun
- tax: A poll tax of 3d a year was also imposed from the age of twelve.
- riot: Another thing Dublin Anto was known for was being the poll tax riots most wanted.
- rating: There is already concern at the party's falling poll ratings.
Noun used with modifier
- opinion: We proved the opinion polls wrong by a factor of 50 % .
- Gallup: A 1989 Gallup poll seemed to show strong support of the use of animals in biomedical research.
- deed: The idea is to replicate the name change shown on your lost deed poll document.
- exit: Aside from the exit polls having been proven to be faulty, in the 2000 election exit polls were wrong in 8 states.
- reno: Televising any round-robin inception in the s visiting the nevada reno poll.
- phone-in: As usual with their important campaigns like this they had a phone-in poll last week.
Poll Quotes
Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll.
poll Quotes
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion.When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.
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