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Poll   /poʊl/   Listen
Poll

noun
1.
An inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people.  Synonyms: canvass, opinion poll, public opinion poll.
2.
The top of the head.  Synonyms: crown, pate.
3.
The part of the head between the ears.
4.
A tame parrot.  Synonym: poll parrot.
5.
The counting of votes (as in an election).
verb
(past & past part. polled; pres. part. polling)
1.
Get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions.  Synonyms: canvas, canvass.
2.
Vote in an election at a polling station.
3.
Get the votes of.
4.
Convert into a pollard.  Synonym: pollard.



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"Poll" Quotes from Famous Books



... honours in Nature's university, who learn the laws which govern men and things and obey them, are the really great and successful men in this world. The great mass of mankind are the "Poll,"[10] who pick up just enough to get through without much discredit. Those who won't learn at all are plucked; and then you can't come up again. Nature's ...
— English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice • Frederick William Roe (edit. and select.)
... been in here examining the poll for the Immortals ("Literature," March 24,) in the hope, I think, that at last she should find me at the top and you in second place; and if that is her ambition she has suffered disappointment for the third time—and will never fare any better, I hope, for you ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... word departed, His virtues were so rare, His friends were many and true-hearted, His Poll was kind and fair; And then he'd sing so blithe and jolly, Ah, many's the time and oft! But mirth is turned to melancholy, For ...
— Lyra Heroica - A Book of Verse for Boys • Various
... "Exactly; the poll is on Wednesday, and the poor man will have worked himself to a shadow by that time. Imagine what electioneering must be like in this awful soaking rain, going along slushy country roads and speaking to damp audiences in draughty schoolrooms, day after day for ...
— Beasts and Super-Beasts • Saki
... interesting just because they are vitalized by this practical difficulty which he faced. Like all party men Woodrow Wilson had thrust upon him here a danger that haunts every political program. The more issues a party meets the less votes it is likely to poll. And for a very simple reason: you cannot keep the citizenship of a nation like this bound in its allegiance to two large parties unless you make the grounds of allegiance very simple and very obvious. If you are to hold five or six million voters enlisted under one emblem ...
— A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann


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