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poll /ˈpol/
民意調查,民意測驗;得票數;人頭,人頭稅,選舉名冊(v.)投票,作民意調查
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Poll, n. One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman. [Cambridge Univ., Eng.]
Poll n. A parrot; -- familiarly so called.
Poll n.
1. The head; the back part of the head. “All flaxen was his poll.”
2. A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals.
We are the greater poll, and in true fear
They gave us our demands. --Shak.
The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll. --Shak.
3. Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election.
4. The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll.
All soldiers quartered in place are to remove . . . and not to return till one day after the poll is ended. --Blackstone.
5. pl. The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls.
6. The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.
7. Zool. The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a).
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.
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.
When he [Absalom] pollled his head. --2 Sam. xiv. 26.
His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs. --Sir T. North.
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.
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.
3. To extort from; to plunder; to strip. [Obs.]
Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise. --Spenser.
4. To impose a tax upon. [Obs.]
5. To pay as one's personal tax.
The man that polled but twelve pence for his head. --Dryden.
6. To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
Polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms. --Milton.
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.
And poll for points of faith his trusty vote. --Tickell.
8. Law To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee░ poll.
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.
Poll, v. i. To vote at an election.
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poll
n 1: an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a
random sample of people [syn: opinion poll, public
opinion poll, canvass]
2: the top of the head [syn: pate, crown]
3: the part of the head between the ears
4: a tame parrot [syn: poll parrot]
5: the counting of votes (as in an election)
v 1: get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
[syn: canvass, canvas]
2: vote in an election at a polling station
3: get the votes of
4: convert into a pollard; "pollard trees" [syn: pollard]