How to pronounce “poll”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
• A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.
• A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
• The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
• (now rare outside veterinary medicine contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
• (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
• The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
• The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
• (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
• (intransitive) To vote at an election.
• To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
• To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
• (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
• (transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
• To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
• (transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
• (intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
• (obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip. Especially in conjunction with pill for emphasis.
• To impose a tax upon.
• To pay as one's personal tax.
• To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
• (law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation[2]
• [Adjective]
• (of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.

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