Poll

Definition: Poll

Poll

Noun

1. An inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people.

2. The top of the head.

3. The part of the head between the ears.

4. A tame parrot.

5. The counting of votes (as in an election).

Verb

1. Get the opinions of people, for example.

2. Vote in an election at a polling station.

3. Get the votes of.

4. Convert into a pollard, as of trees.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "poll" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Computing

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Poll

Choice

Vote, poll, hold up one's hand; divide.

Preference, prelation, opinion poll, survey; predilection; (desire).

Experiment

Poll, survey, opinion poll.

Government

Election, poll, ballot, vote, referendum, recall, initiative, voice, suffrage, plumper, cumulative vote, plebiscitum, plebiscite, vox populi; electioneering; voting; Verb: elective franchise; straight ticket; opinion poll, popularity poll.

Loquacity

Talker; chatterer, chatterbox; babbler; Verb: rattle; ranter; sermonizer, proser, driveler; blatherskite; gossip; (converse); magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel; moulin a paroles.

Numeration

Verb: number, count, tally, tell; call over, run over; take an account of, enumerate, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate; sum; sum up, cast up; tell off, score, cipher, compute, calculate, suppute, add, subtract, multiply, divide, extract roots. algebraize.

Dead reckoning, muster, poll, census, capitation, roll call, recapitulation; account; (list).

Price

Dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess, sess, tallage, levy; abkari; capitation tax, poll tax; doomage, likin; gabel, gabelle; gavel, octroi, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tenths, exactment, ransom, salvage, tariff; brokerage, wharfage, freightage.

Security

Muniment, instrument; deed, deed poll; assurance, indenture; charter; (compact); charter poll; paper, parchment, settlement, will, testament, last will and testament, codicil.

Crosswords: Poll

Irish (hole), Scottish (a pool, mire, mud, pool, puddle).

The Wallace people did a poll. (Joe; writing credit: Norman Wexler)

Taking the Punishment Poll (2002)

Pineapple Poll (1979)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Farm Publication Editorial Poll : Summary Statistics from a Survey of 600 Farmers and Ranchers about Product Editorial Needs (reference)

• Gallup Poll Public Opinion 200 (reference)

• Poll Books c. 1696-1872 A Directory of Holdings in Great Britain 3rd Edition (reference)

• Poll Tax Rebellion (reference)

• The Gallup Poll Cumulative Index: Public Opinion, 1935-1997 (Gallup Poll. Cumulative Index, 1935-1997) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Field Poll (reference)

• Student Poll (reference)

• Texas Poll Report (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Disarmament: A Public Opinion Poll (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Poll Winners (20 Bit Mastering) (reference)

• Poll Winners (Extended Resolution) (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The poll watcher. Credit: Library of Congress.

It would be less painful just to pay all poll taxes!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Vote bill trying to clear the Poll Tax amendment] / Gib Crockett. Credit: Library of Congress.

Caged monkey on platform with sign reading "Congressman Poll Tax" displayed by the NAACP Detroit branch during their "Parade for Victory" march. Credit: Library of Congress.

Top four in democratic poll. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay poll tax or other tax. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

A "eurobarometer 2000" poll exemplifies this hostility against genetically modified food. Common sentiments echoed by respondents were that, “even if GM-food has advantages, it is against nature;” “if something went wrong, it would be a global disaster;” and “GM-food is simply not necessary. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kazakhstan

In May journalist Andrey Sviridov published findings of a poll conducted among journalists, media experts and representatives of human rights organizations on the media. (references)

Hong Kong

However, the academic no longer issued public releases to announce his poll results but rather posted them on a Web site. (references)

Russia

In May and June, a poll conducted among adults throughout the country by the Institute for Comparative Social Research reported that 7 percent of adults have access to the Internet and that Moscow and St. Petersburg have the highest number of users. (references)

Economic History

Benin

Kérékou's principal opponent at the presidential poll, and the ultimate victor, was Prime Minister Nicéphore Soglo. (references)

Croatia

A public opinion poll by the Center for Market Research in August 2001 found that fully 83 percent of Croatians believed that their country is corrupt. (references)

Sweden

In a poll taken in May 1997, however, many Swedes indicated that they were unhappy with Sweden's membership in the EU, and, if given the choice, would not join the EU again. (references)

Human Rights

Uruguay

A poll showed that more than 80 percent of the population approves of the Peace Commission, which consists of six members appointed by the President and operates under the supervision of the office of the President. (references)

Minorities

Slovak Republic

The poll also indicated that persons under 30 years of age are more tolerant towards Roma than older persons. (references)

Slovak Republic

For example, 66 percent of the population would not want to have a Roma neighbor, compared to 86 percent in a 1999 poll. (references)

Political Economy

Morocco

While there are no accurate election or opinion poll results upon which to base an estimate, it is likely that followers of non-violent political Islam probably account for nearly one fourth of the population. (references)

Guatemala

Six months later, however, Portillo received only a 31 percent favorable rating (and a 65 percent negative rating) in a respected national poll. (references)

Turkey

The Republic People's Party (CHP), under the leadership of Deniz Baykal, did not poll sufficient votes to win parliamentary representation in the April 1999 elections. (references)

Political Rights

Ukraine

Pollsters reported that exit poll results on turnout were notably lower than results reported by the Government. (references)

Peru

The majority of complaints concerned the congressional election, and many were related to mistakes by poll workers filling out the vote tally sheets on election night. (references)

Indonesia

The numerous technical problems, due to inadequate preparations and ambiguities in the regulations, included inadequate supplies of ballots and reporting forms, poor training of poll workers, confusion over procedures, and insufficient funds to pay poll workers. (references)

Women

Slovak Republic

A national poll from 2000 indicated that as many as one in five women are subjected to some form of physical violence in the home. (references)

Georgia

A 1998 NGO poll of women found a gap between the perceptions of older and younger women; older women tended to view their place in traditional society as an honored one, while younger women reported that although there were no real barriers to a professional life or to a good education, discrimination and harassment in the workplace were problems. (references)

Albania

In 1999 the Advice Center for Women and Girls, an NGO, conducted a poll which showed that 64 percent of women surveyed had experienced some form of physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "poll": declare the poll ♦ deed poll ♦ demand a poll ♦ exit poll ♦ gallup poll ♦ go to the poll ♦ head the poll ♦ heavy poll ♦ little curly poll ♦ mori poll ♦ opinion poll ♦ poll book ♦ poll card ♦ poll degree ♦ poll evil ♦ poll for ♦ poll parrot ♦ poll pick ♦ poll taker ♦ poll tax ♦ poor poll ♦ popularity poll ♦ public opinion poll ♦ red poll ♦ straw poll ♦ To poll a jury. Additional references.

Beginning with "poll": poll-axed, poll-capped, poll-capping, poll-cow, poll-defying, poll-led, poll-ox, poll-parrots, poll-pry, poll-rigging, poll-sapping, poll-shocker, poll-takers, poll-tax, poll-tax-capping, poll-taxes, poll-tax-payers, poll-topping.

Ending with "poll": anti-poll, deed-poll, eve-of-poll, opinion-poll, pre-poll, re-poll.

Containing "poll": bit-of-a-poll-tax, yellow-poll warbler.

Albanian

pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, clip, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mince, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack), zgjedhje (choice, discretion, election, exposition, matching, option, pick, selection), votues (voter), votoj (cast a ballot, resolve, vote through), votim (ballot, polling, vote, voting), vota, tepe (vertex), sondazh (feeler, scan, sounding), shkurtoj (abbreviate, abridge, ax, axe, buck, clip, compress, condense, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, detruncate, dock, epitomize, pare, prune, razee, retrench, shorten, truncate, undercut, whittle down), qendër votimi, marr vota, kokë (block, bulb, catchword, conk, dome, head, loaf, nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, nut, onion, pate, pommel), bëj sondazh. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نال عددا معينا من الأصوات, ‏تصويت (ballot, polling, vote, voting), ‏طرف المطرقة العريض, ‏صندوق الاقتراع, ‏إنتخاب (election, voting), ‏إنتخب (cull, elect, pick out, select, vote, vote in), ‏إقتراع (vote, voting), ‏إستفتى أشخاصا, ‏إستفتاء الرأي العام (gallup poll, public opinion polls), ‏أنتخاب, ‏رأس (apex, bean, cos, head, noggin, pate, point, preside, superintend, tip, top, trunk, vertex), ‏درج في جدول, ‏ببغاء (parrot). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отбелязване на гласовете, избирателен пункт, избирателен списък (register), папагал (copy-cat, parrot, popinjay), подкастрен, подстриган (shaven, shorn), получавам гласове, проверка на общественото мнение, без рога, броене на гласовете, брой на гласовете, диплома без отличие (poll degree, polly degree), животно без рога, участвувам в изборна кампания, отрязан (cut off, truncate), вписвам в данъчен списък, вписвам в избирателен списък, глава (attic, beer, bulb, chief, chump, compartment, conk, crumpet, head, knob, loaf, nob, noddle, noggin, nut, onion, pate, sconce, topknot), гласувам (divide, enact, vote), гласуване (ballot, suffrage, vote, voting), шут (cutup, fool, jester, merry andrew, mime, scaramouch, shot, zany), шуто животно, теме (corona, crown, pate, pericranium, sconce, vertex), чело на чук (cheek), участвувам в изборна анкета, анкета на общественото мнение. (various references)

Chinese 

調查 (inquiry, investigation, survey, to investigate, to survey), 民意测验 (polls). (various references)

Czech

poèet hlasù, uříznout vrchol stromu, sèítat hlasy, sèítání hlasù, obdržet hlasy, hlasovat (vote), hlasování (ballot, plebiscite, vote). (various references)

Danish

nakke (back of the neck, nape). (various references)

Dutch

P (parent, Peta, pico, poll bit, pressure), SPE (Serial Poll Enable, solid phase extraction, Solid Polymer Electrolyte), Serial Poll Enable (Serial Poll Enable), opvraagbit (poll bit), controle van de stembus voor de aanvang van de stemming (before the poll opens, to verify that the ballot box is empty). (various references)

Farsi 

فهرست نامزدهای انتخاباتی (Slate), پهنه (Arena, Palm, Sheet, Width), مراجعه به اراء عمومی , تعداداراء اخذاراء , اخذرای دسته جمعی , رای جوءی , رای دادن یااوردن , رای (Award, Dictum, Discretion, Judgment(Gement), Opinion, Sentence, Verdict, Vote), راس کلاه . (various references)

Finnish

latvoa (top), hamara (back). (various references)

French

voter, vote (polling), voix, talon (pole), suffrage, sonder, sondage (gallup poll), scrutin (polling), obtenir, liste électorale, bureau de vote, élire, élection. (various references)

German

Abstimmung (agreement, balancing, ballot, coordination, matching, suiting, tuning, vote, voting). (various references)

Greek 

κεφαλή (head, nob, noodle, pate), καταγράφω (catalogue, list, log, note down, record, register, set down, take down, write down), γκάλοπ (gallup), παπαγάλοσ (parrot, popinjay), πτέρνη (back, pole), εκλογικόσ κατάλογοσ, εγγράφω (book, enroll, matriculate, record, register), λαμβάνω ψήφουσ, λαμβάνω ψήφους, αριθμώ ψήφουσ, ψηφοφορία (ballot, suffrage, voting), ψηφίζω (ballot, vote, vote for). (various references)

Hebrew 

משאל (desire, referendum, request, wish), לערוך משאל, לערוך הצבעה, קלפי (ballot, ballot box, polling station). (various references)

Hungarian

szavazás (ballot, polling, vote, voting). (various references)

Indonesian

pengumpulan pendapat, menanyai (interrogate), angket (inquiry, questionnaire). (various references)

Italian

voti, votazione (marks, polling, score, tuning, vote, voting), sondare opinione, sondaggio (probing, sounding, survey), seggio elettorale (polling station), scrutinio (assignment of marks, ballot, scrutiny), ottenere voti, lista di elettori, inchiesta (assize, enquiry, inquest, inquiry, investigation), elezione (election, joyce, vote), dorso (back, spine). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ポーランド語 (beeper, death, drink, drip, fall drop by drop, fried potato, mail box, making up only parts of one's face instead of doing a full make-up job, pager, pocket, pocket bell, pocket bike, pocket computer, pocket money, pocket monster, pocketable, pocket-size, pod, poem, poetic, poetical, poetry, point, point and shoot, point getter, point of sales system, point of view, point size, pointer, pointing, poison, pole, Polish, polling, ponytail, pop, pop art, pop country, pop fly, pop gospel, pop jazz, popgroup, poppy, pops, popular, popular music, pop-up, pop-up window, POS system, position, positioning, positive, positive film, positron, possibility, post, post-, post office, postcard, post-doc, poster, poster color, poster session, poster value, Post-It, postmaster, postmodern, post-process, postscript, post-season, pot, potato, potato chip, potato chips, pot-au-feu, potency, potential, pottering, soup, to break down, to fail), 投票　 (voting), 投票 (voting). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ポール (pole), とうひょう (voting). (various references)

Korean 

투표 (Ballot, Balloted, Balloting, Polling, polls, Vote, Voting). (various references)

Manx

teiys, pollal (clip, clip on ticket, crop, dress, prune, pruning), kione (bottom, chief, close, closing, dyke, end, extreme, extremity, finish, head, headland, point, point of argument, ringleader, termination, top, top of flower, top-end, tribune), geddyn voteyn, claigeen, ceau voteyn, baarey (bare, clip, cut, dress, paring knife, prune, shave). (various references)

Pig Latin

ollpay.(various references)

Portuguese

cabeça (brain, chief, chunk, coconut, head, leader, nob, noddle, nut, pate, ringleader, top, topknot). (various references)

Romanian

votare (carriage, passage, vote, voting), vota (divide, elect, go to the polls, pass, record one's vote, vote), tãia vârful (head down), obţine (achieve, acquire, attain, coax, come by, elicit, find it easy to, get, obtain, procure, realize, secure, take, whip), numãrãtoarea voturilor, listã de alegãtori, efectua alegeri în, înscriere în registrele electorale. (various references)

Russian 

срезать рога, список избирателей, регистрация избирателей, число голосов, комолое животное, голосование (ballot, inconclusive vote, polling, vote, voting), обычная кличка попугая, опрашивать опрос (canvass, interviewing, polling), баллотировка (voting), проводить голосование, получать голоса, подсчет голосов, подрезать верхушку. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

potkresati (lop, prune, top), uneti u birački spisak, teme (subjects, top), glasanje (vote, voting), glasačko mesto, dobiti glasove, biralište, birački spisak, anketirati, anketa (questionnaire). (various references)

Spanish

votación (ballot, division, polling, vote, voting). (various references)

Swedish

topphugga, röstning (vote, voting), rösta (ballot, vote). (various references)

Thai

การสำรวจความคิดเห็น (opinion poll). (various references)

Turkish

kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), anket yapmak, boynuzsuz (hornless, Hummel, muley), boynuzsuz sığır (Pollard), boynuzu kesilmiş, boynuzu kesilmiş sığır (Pollard), boynuzunu kesmek, budamak (amputate, chip, chop off, cut, cut back, lop, nip, nip off, pare, Pollard, prune, prune away, prune off, trim, truncate), halkın nabzını yoklamak, kafa (bean, brains, cast of mind, chump, coconut, conk, costard, end, head, headpiece, intelligence, knob, nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, nut, onion, pate, potato, savvy, sconce), kamuoyu yoklaması (gallup poll, public opinion poll, straw vote), anket (gallup poll, inquiry, questionary, questionnaire, survey), kelle (bean, chump, head, nob, pate, sconce), tepesini kesmek (truncate), kişi (cad, head, individual, person, persona, self, soul, Wallah, Wight), oy sayısı (ballot), oy toplamak, oy verme (polling, voting), oy vermek (ballot, cast one's vote, give vote, plump for, poll for, vote, vote for), oyların sayımı, seçim (choice, election, elective, polling, selection), seçim yeri (poll tax, polls), seçmen (constituent, elector, electress, voter), seçmen listesi (pollbook), kamuoyu yoklaması yapmak (canvass). (various references)

Ukrainian

список виборців, результат голосування, голосувати (ballot, divide, thumb a lift, vote), голосування (ballot, division, polling, suffrage, vote, voting), включати до списку виборців, опитування (canvass, interrogation), одержувати голоси, маківка (cupola, pate), підрахунок голосів. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự bầu cử (voting), nơi bầu cử số phiếu bầu, không sừng (hornless), con vẹt, bò không sừng (pollard), bị xén ngọn bị cưa sừng, bị cắt ngọn. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "poll": pollack, pollacks, pollard, pollarded, pollarding, pollards, polled, pollee, pollees, pollen, pollened, pollening, pollenizer, pollenizers, pollenoses, pollenosis, pollens, poller, pollers, pollex, pollical, pollices, pollinate, pollinated, pollinates, pollinating, pollination, pollinations, pollinator, pollinators, polling, pollinia, pollinic, pollinium, pollinizer, pollinizers, pollinoses, pollinosis, pollist, pollists, polliwog, polliwogs, pollock, pollocks, polls, pollster, pollsters, pollutant, pollutants, pollute, polluted. (additional references)

Words ending with "poll": blackpoll, catchpoll, clodpoll, outpoll, redpoll, repoll. (additional references)

Words containing "poll": antipollution, antipollutions, apollo, apollos, blackpolls, catchpolls, clodpolls, equipollence, equipollences, equipollent, equipollently, equipollents, nonpolluting, outpolled, outpolling, outpolls, postpollination, redpolls, repolled, repolling, repolls, sporopollenin, sporopollenins, unpolled, unpolluted. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Poll" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apoll, ioll, ipol, opl, pbl, pcl, pell, Phol, pillu, piol, pjl, pll, plo, pnl, poal, Pobl, podl, poel, Poell, pohl, Poil, pola, poli, polla, polle, polli, pollo, pollr, polm, Posl, pul, pulli, pwll. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lop, pol.

-2 letters: lo, op.

+1 letter: polls.

+2 letters: apollo, collop, dollop, gallop, lollop, pallor, phyllo, pillow, polled, pollee, pollen, poller, pollex, repoll, wallop.

+3 letters: apollos, bellhop, collops, dollops, gallops, hilltop, lollops, outpoll, outpull, pallors, payroll, phyllos, pillbox, pillion, pillory, pillows, pillowy, plimsol, plugola, pollack, pollard, pollees, pollens, pollers, polling, pollist, pollock, pollute, pullout, redpoll, repolls, rollmop, rolltop, scallop, scollop, shallop, topfull, trollop, wallops.