Meaning

15 senses
  1. (transitive)To take, record the votes of (an electorate).

    get the votes of

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

  3. (intransitive)To vote at an election.

    vote in an election at a polling station

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

    He polled a hundred votes more than his opponent.

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

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

  6. (transitive)To cut the hair of (a creature).

    1579-1603, Thomas North, Plutarch's Lives His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs.

  7. (transitive)To remove the horns of (an animal).

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

    to poll a tree

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

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

  10. (intransitive)To be judged in a poll.

  11. To impose a tax upon.

  12. To pay as one's personal tax.

Examples

75 sentences
  1. Don't believe the polls.

    Не треба вірити опитуванням.

    deGlaub nicht, was die Umfragen sagen.

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  2. Let's take a quick poll.

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  3. In the polls, both parties are on par.

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  4. The dark horse candidate was losing in the polls before the primary.

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  5. I don't trust polls.

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Translations

2 languages

Origin

From Middle English pol, polle ("scalp, pate"), from or cognate with Middle Dutch pol, pōl

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”).

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Forms

polls, polling, polled, polled
Base formpoll · to poll
3rd person singularpolls
Present participlepolling
Past simplepolled
Past participlepolled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypoll
he, she, itpolls

Past simpleLesson

all personspolled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave polled
he, she, ithas polled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill poll

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • convert into a pollard:pollard
  • get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions:canvass

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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