'Poll' definitions:
Definition of 'poll'
From: WordNet
noun
An inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people [syn: poll, opinion poll, public opinion poll, canvass]
noun
noun
The part of the head between the ears
noun
A tame parrot [syn: poll, poll parrot]
noun
The counting of votes (as in an election)
verb
verb
Vote in an election at a polling station
verb
Get the votes of
verb
Convert into a pollard; "pollard trees" [syn: poll, pollard]
Definition of 'Poll'
From: GCIDE
- Poll \Poll\, n. [From Polly, The proper name.] A parrot; -- familiarly so called. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Poll'
From: GCIDE
- Poll \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.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Poll'
From: GCIDE
- Poll \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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals. [1913 Webster]
- We are the greater poll, and in true fear They gave us our demands. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll. [1913 Webster]
- All soldiers quartered in place are to remove . . . and not to return till one day after the poll is ended. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- 5. pl. The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls. [1913 Webster]
- 6. The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Zool.) The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a) . [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Poll'
From: GCIDE
- Poll \Poll\, v. i. To vote at an election. --Beaconsfield. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Poll'
From: GCIDE
- Poll \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. [1913 Webster]
- When he [Absalom] pollled his head. --2 Sam. xiv. 26. [1913 Webster]
- His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs. --Sir T. North. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To extort from; to plunder; to strip. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To impose a tax upon. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 5. To pay as one's personal tax. [1913 Webster]
- The man that polled but twelve pence for his head. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one. [1913 Webster]
- Polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- And poll for points of faith his trusty vote. --Tickell. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'poll'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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