poll

Meaning

Noun

1. A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
2. A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.
3. A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
4. The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
5. The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
6. A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
7. The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
8. The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.

Verb

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) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
10. (intransitive) To be judged in a poll.
11. (obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip. Especially in conjunction with pill for emphasis.
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. To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation

Adj

Bred without horns, and thus hornless.

Synonyms

survey

vote

ballot

voting

canvass

polling

probe

pollard

inquiry

pate

public opinion poll

questionnaire

opinion poll

enquiry

crown

👑

sound out

investigation

head

election

poll parrot

register

electing

sound

🔉

parrot

🦜

study

suffrage

top

🔝

popinjay

canvas

elect

census

research

record

referendum

report

sampling

shear

skull

💀

sounding

straw vote

strip

terminal

tip

vertex

write down

write in

Gallup poll

vote in

digging tool at base of spear shaft

paroquet

Translations

encuesta

sondage

Umfrage

inchiesta

scrutin

enquête

sondaggio

sondeo

votar

scrutinio

vote

ψηφοφορία

votazione

Abstimmung

votare

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɔl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: pol

Cognate with Scots: pow

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: pol

Cognate with Danish: puld

Cognate with Swedish: -

In summary

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”, adjective), 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".