poll
Significado (inglés)
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- A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
- A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.
- A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
- The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
- The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
- A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
- The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
- The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
Sinónimos
public opinion poll
straw vote
digging tool at base of spear shaft
roll polling
election returns
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/pɔl/
Etimoloxía (inglés)
From Middle English pol, polle ("scalp, pate"), from or cognate with Middle Dutch pol, pōle, polle (“top, summit; head”), from Proto-West Germanic *poll, from Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“round object, head, top”), from Proto-Indo-European *bolno-, *bōwl- (“orb, round object, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Akin to Scots pow (“head, crown, scalp, skull”), Saterland Frisian pol (“round, full, brimming”, adj), German Low German Polle, Poll (“round object, ball”), German Low German Poller (“head, tree-top, bulb”), Danish puld (“crown of a hat”), Swedish dialectal pull (“head”). Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1625, from the notion of "counting heads".
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