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Poll

Poll Meaning & Definition
Poll Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Poll?

[n] the counting of votes (as in an election)
[n] a tame parrot
[n] the part of the head between the ears
[n] the top of the head
[n] an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
[v] convert into a pollard, as of trees
[v] get the opinions of people, for example
[v] get the votes of
[v] vote in an election at a polling station

Synonyms | Synonyms for Poll: canvas | canvass | canvass | crown | opinion poll | pate | poll parrot | pollard | public opinion poll

Related Terms | Find terms related to Poll: abbreviate | abridge | abstract | ad valorem duty | agenda | alcohol tax | amusement tax | ask | assessment on default | Australian ballot | 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 | Hare system | 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 | VAT | 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

See Also | acquire | circularise | circularize | clip | count | counting | cow | crop | cut back | dress | enquiry | enumeration | Equus caballus | get | horse | human head | inquiry | lop | moo-cow | numeration | parrot | prune | reckoning | research | snip | straw poll | straw vote | survey | tally | tonsure | top | top side | trim | upper side | upside | vote

Poll In Webster's Dictionary

\Poll\, n. [From Polly, The proper name.] A parrot; -- familiarly so called.
\Poll\, n. [Gr. ? the many, the rabble.] One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman. [Cambridge Univ., Eng.]
\Poll\, n. [Akin to LG. polle the head, the crest of a bird, the top of a tree, OD. pol, polle, Dan. puld the crown of a hat.] 1. The head; the back part of the head. ``All flaxen was his poll.'' --Shak. 2. A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals. We are the greater poll, and in true fear They gave us our demands. --Shak. The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll. --Shak. 3. Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election. 4. The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll. All soldiers quartered in place are to remove . . . and not to return till one day after the poll is ended. --Blackstone. 5. pl. The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls. 6. The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax. 7. (Zo["o]l.) The European chub. See {Pollard}, 3 (a) . {Poll book}, a register of persons entitled to vote at an election. {Poll evil} (Far.), an inflammatory swelling or abscess on a horse's head, confined beneath the great ligament of the neck. {Poll pick} (Mining), a pole having a heavy spike on the end, forming a kind of crowbar. {Poll tax}, a tax levied by the head, or poll; a capitation tax.
\Poll\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Polled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Polling}.] 1. To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop; to shear; as, to poll the head; to poll a tree. When he [Absalom] pollled his head. --2 Sam. xiv. 26. His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs. --Sir T. North. 2. To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop; -- sometimes with off; as, 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. --Chapman. 3. To extort from; to plunder; to strip. [Obs.] Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise. --Spenser. 4. To impose a tax upon. [Obs.] 5. To pay as one's personal tax. The man that polled but twelve pence for his head. --Dryden. 6. To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one. Polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms. --Milton. 7. To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters; as, he polled a hundred votes more than his opponent. And poll for points of faith his trusty vote. --Tickell. 8. (Law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See {Dee? poll}. --Burrill. {To poll a jury}, to call upon each member of the jury to answer individually as to his concurrence in a verdict which has been rendered.
\Poll\, v. i. To vote at an election. --Beaconsfield.

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