poll
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[edit] Etymology 1
From polle (“‘hair of the head’”), (recorded in English since c.1290), from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch pol (“‘head, top’”). Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1625, from notion of "counting heads"
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- (Australia) IPA: /paɔl/, SAMPA: /paOl/
- (UK) IPA: /pəʊl/, SAMPA: /p@Ul/
- (US) IPA: /poʊl/, SAMPA: /poUl/
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poll (plural polls)
- An election or a survey of a particular group.
- The student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria.
- The network hub polled the department's computers to determine which ones could still respond.
- A place voters cast ballots
- The polls close at 8 p.m.
- Hair
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- ...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.
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- The head, especially its top part.
- 1908, O. Henry, A Tempered Wind
- 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..
- 1908, O. Henry, A Tempered Wind
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to poll (third-person singular simple present polls, present participle polling, simple past and past participle polled)
- (transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
- (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
- (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
- (transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
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poll (plural polls)
[edit] References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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poll m. (plural polls)
- A chicken.
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poll m. (plural polls)
- A louse.
[edit] See also
- llémena (louse)
[edit] Irish
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: [pˠoːl̪ˠ], [pˠɔl̪ˠ]
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poll m.
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- First declension
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| Irish mutation | |||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis | |
| poll | pholl | bpoll | |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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- (pothole): linntreog f.
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poll
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- Finite forms
| Analytic | 1st sing. | 2d sing. | 3d sing. | Autonomous | |
| 1st pl. | 2d pl. | 3d pl. | |||
| Present | pollann | pollaim | pollair* | polltar | |
| pollaimid | pollaid* | ||||
| Imperfect | pholladh | phollainn | pholltá | pholltaí | |
| phollaimis | phollaidís | ||||
| Past | pholl | phollas* | phollais* | polladh | |
| phollamar | phollabhar* | pholladar* | |||
| Future | pollfaidh | pollfad* | pollfair* | pollfar | |
| pollfaimid; pollfam* |
pollfaid* | ||||
| Conditional | phollfadh | phollfainn | phollfá | phollfaí | |
| phollfaimis | phollfaidís | ||||
| Present subjunctive | polla | pollad* | pollair* | polltar | |
| pollaimid | pollaid* | ||||
| Past subjunctive | polladh | pollainn | polltá | polltaí | |
| pollaimis | pollaidís | ||||
| Imperative | polladh | pollaim | poll | polltar | |
| pollaimis | pollaigí | pollaidís | |||
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poll
- A head