Word Finder - poll

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A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.

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• election
• survey

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A formal election.

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The student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria.

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A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)

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The polls close at 8 p.m.

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(now rare outside veterinary medicine contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.

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• scalp

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(in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.

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The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.

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The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.

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To take, record the votes of (an electorate).

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To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).

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To vote at an election.

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To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.

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He polled a hundred votes more than his opponent.

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To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.

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to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass

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To cut the hair of (a creature).

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To remove the horns of (an animal).

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To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.

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to poll a tree

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(communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).

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The network hub polled the department's computers to determine which ones could still respond.

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(with adverb) To be judged in a poll.

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To extort from; to plunder; to strip.

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To impose a tax upon.

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To pay as one's personal tax.

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To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.

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To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation.

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a polled deed

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

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Poll Hereford

If a second poll is necessary a relative majority is sufficient.

Poll results listed a mixed bag.

The hut and poll taxes yield about £62,000 a year.

Any subdistrict, town or city of the fifth or sixth class may provide for a graded school by voting for an ad valorem and poll tax which is limited as to amount.

Poll taxes are levied by the counties and townships for school and local purposes.

A poll tax is required of all males between the ages of 21 and 60 years, one half of which goes to the county in which it is collected and the rest to the state.

One Gallup poll at the time said more people knew about the trial than knew the full name of the president.

There is no doubt but that in the Maccabean times and onward 218 was the shekel; but the use of the word darkemon by Ezra and Nehemiah, and the probabilities of their case, point to the daragmaneh, 1/60 maneh or shekel of Assyria; and the mention of 1/3 shekel by Nehemiah as poll tax nearly proves that the 129 and not 218 grains is intended, as 218 is not divisible by 3.

The contest resulted in his return at the head of the poll.

If this is so, then how come several major parties and the majority of Sunnis in central Iraq boycotted the poll?

If no one has cast a vote then users can delete the poll or edit any poll option.

Election officials reported a 75 per cent turnout in the poll.

Take Part in our poll Have you visited a zoo during the past 2 years?

Why not do a straw poll in your office or a quick vox pop to see what the local picture is like.

In Conde Nast Traveler magazine's ninth annual "Reader's Cruise Poll," Disney Magic scored a Top 5 in the Large Cruise Ship category with an overall rating of 85.9 (only 2.5 points from the top spot, held by Disney Wonder).

The poll reflected the opinions of 90,000 readers.

I think the greatest disservice done was Thatcher with the Poll Tax.

The poll also suggests that the public are increasingly distrustful of what ministers tell them about the terror threat facing the country.

Section 6 will allow electors to register closer to the date of the poll.

The following month saw Mike come eleventh in a Welsh Assembly Government-backed poll of the top 100 Welsh heroes!

The milk of the Red Poll is higher in protein and has smaller fat globules than other breeds such as the Fresian.

Kay tops TV one-liner poll Peter Kay's ' garlic bread ' catchphrase has been named the best comedy one-liner in British TV history.

The poll showed that 59 percent of respondents thought that Australian troops should be withdrawn and 36 percent of respondents thought that Australian troops should be withdrawn and 36 percent said they should stay.

A straw poll of New Insight staff in the office on one day showed that 100 per cent had tried it.

The result was repeated at the most recent poll in March 2003.

A nationwide poll suggests most people would like the government to take more action to improve public health.

Putin then won the presidential poll in March 2000.

A 1989 Gallup poll seemed to show strong support of the use of animals in biomedical research.

The idea is to replicate the name change shown on your lost deed poll document.

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As usual with their important campaigns like this they had a phone-in poll last week.

Originally set up to fight the poll tax, they decided to carry on after the tax was defeated.

Basil's road rage tops poll Source - Thursday, October 21, 1999.

Mexico full poll recount rejected Mexico's electoral body rejects a request for a full recount of votes from July's disputed election.

The ID card lunacy alone should have the free citizens of Britain pouring into the streets à la poll tax riots.

The point I stressed in my book is that Peter ended this sort of slavery by making former slaves subject to the poll tax.

The poll will take place once a shortlist has been compiled following informal soundings within the partnership.

A YouGov poll for The Daily Telegraph on Friday showed that the " trust " factor remains a thorn in Blair's side.

And don't forget to make your opinion count in this month's online poll with regards to " Who is a better tipper?

A Joseph Rowntree Poll in 2000 found that 30 per cent of those polled agreed or tended to agree with compulsory turnout.

The latest poll also found nearly one in five respondents expects turnover to grow by more than 15% .

Back on ship Neil still tussled with getting his e-mail to poll correctly after getting rather clogged up with attachments.

Usdaw, the shopworkers ' union with many members in Tesco stores, produced a similar NOP poll result.

The legislature has the right to make the payment of the poll tax a requirement for voting, but no such provision is in force.

In 1897 a law was passed making the right of suffrage dependent on the payment of poll taxes for the preceding two years; but in the following year the State Supreme Court declared this act unconstitutional because the title was not descriptive of the matter.

All persons otherwise qualified may place their names on the voting register, provided they can read and write any section of the constitution in the English language and have paid on or before the ist of May the poll tax for the previous year.

Basil 's road rage tops poll Source - Thursday, October 21, 1999.

Mexico full poll recount rejected Mexico 's electoral body rejects a request for a full recount of votes from July 's disputed election.

The 1837 poll book describes him as a redware potter.

A Birmingham newspaperâs poll also revealed more than 50 per cent expect Villa to be fighting relegation again.