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▸ noun: A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.
▸ noun: A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
▸ noun: The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
▸ noun: (now rare outside veterinary contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
▸ noun: (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
▸ noun: The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
▸ noun: The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
▸ verb: (transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
▸ verb: (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To vote at an election.
▸ verb: To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
▸ verb: To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
▸ verb: To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
▸ verb: (transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
▸ verb: (intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip. Especially in conjunction with pill for emphasis.
▸ verb: To impose a tax upon.
▸ verb: To pay as one's personal tax.
▸ verb: To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
▸ verb: (law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation
▸ adjective: (of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.
▸ noun: A pet parrot.
▸ noun: (UK, dated, Cambridge University) One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
▸ noun: A diminutive of the female given name Mary.
▸ noun: A common pet name for a parrot.
▸ noun: (UK, slang, obsolete) A disreputable woman.
▸ noun: A surname transferred from the given name.
Similar:
canvass,
crown,
pate,
Pollard,
poll parrot,
public opinion poll,
demoscopy,
populomics,
opinionmaking,
statistics,
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Opposite:
Types:
exit poll,
opinion poll,
straw poll,
online poll,
telephone poll,
mail-in poll,
tracking poll,
deliberative poll,
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