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Definition poll

Etymology 1

From Middle English pol, polle ("scalp, pate"), probably from or else cognate with Middle Dutch pol, p?le, polle (“top, summit; head”), from Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“round object, head, top”), from Proto-Indo-European *bolno-, *b?wl- (“orb, round object, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Akin to Scots pow (“head, crown, skalp, skull”), Saterland Frisian pol (“round, full, brimming”), Low German polle (“head, tree-top, bulb”), Danish puld (“crown of a hat”), Swedish dialectal pull (“head”). Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1625, from notion of "counting heads".

Noun

poll (plural polls)

1. A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
2. A formal election.
3. A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
4. (now rare outside veterinary contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
5. (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
6. The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
7. The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.

Verb

poll (third-person singular simple present polls, present participle polling, simple past and past participle polled)

1. (transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
2. (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
3. (intransitive) To vote at an election.
4. To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
5. To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
6. (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
7. (transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
8. To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
9. (transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
10. (intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
11. (obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
12. To impose a tax upon.
13. To pay as one's personal tax.
14. To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
15. (law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation.

Adjective

poll

1. (of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.

Etymology 2

Perhaps a shortening of Polly, a common name for pet parrots.

Noun

poll (plural polls)

1. A pet parrot.

Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek ?????? (polloí, “the many, the masses”)

Noun

poll (plural polls)

1. (Britain, dated, Cambridge University) One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.

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