Meaning of Poll | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
2. A diminutive of the female given name Mary.
3. A disreputable woman.
   UK, obsolete, slang
4. A surname transferred from the given name.
5. A pet parrot.
6. One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
   UK, dated
7. A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.
8. A common pet name for a parrot.
9. A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
10. The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
11. The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
12. A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
13. The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
14. The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.

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Examples

“The student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria.”

“All soldiers quartered in place are to remove […] and not to return till one day after the poll is ended.”

“The other returns having come in, the result of the poll, that Sir James Graham had been superseded by Major Aglionby, was declared at Carlisle soon after 11 a.m.”

“The polls close at 8 p.m.”

“[…]the doctor, as if to hear better, had taken off his powdered wig, and sat there, looking very strange indeed with his own close-cropped black poll.”

“And you might perceive the president and general manager, Mr. R. G. Atterbury, with his priceless polished poll, busy in the main office room dictating letters..”

“The main plate is formed in two halves, the upper plate having small sideplates, ear guards, an escutcheon plate (blank), and a brass plume-holder, as well as a hinged poll plate.”

“We are the greater poll, and in true fear They gave us our demands.”

“The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll.”

“"A gentleman, please Sir," said the blushing Mary, (or Poll as some unrespective and light-minded persons have misnamed her), and the gentleman entered.”

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