poll

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Pronunciation 1.1.1.1 Homophones 1.1.2 Noun 1.1.2.1 Synonyms 1.1.2.2 Derived terms 1.1.2.3 Translations 1.1.3 Verb 1.1.3.1 Translations 1.1.3.2 Translations 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Pronunciation 1.2.2 Noun 1.3 References 2 Catalan 2.1 Etymology 1 2.1.1 Noun 2.2 Etymology 2 2.2.1 Noun 2.2.1.1 See also 3 Irish 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Noun 3.2.1 Declension 3.2.2 Mutation 3.2.3 Synonyms 3.3 Verb 3.3.1 Inflection 4 Middle English 4.1 Noun

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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"

[edit] Pronunciation

• (Australia) IPA: /paɔl/, SAMPA: /paOl/
• (UK) IPA: /pəʊl/, SAMPA: /p@Ul/
• (US) IPA: /poʊl/, SAMPA: /poUl/

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• pole
• Pole

[edit] Noun

poll (plural polls)

1. 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.

2. A place voters cast ballots

   The polls close at 8 p.m.

3. 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.

4. 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..

[edit] Synonyms

• (election or survey): election, survey
• (hair): hair

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• polling
• straw poll
• opinion poll

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[edit] Verb

to poll (third-person singular simple present polls, present participle polling, simple past and past participle polled)

1. (transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
2. (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
3. (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
4. (transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).

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[edit] Etymology 2

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[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /pɒl/, SAMPA: /pQl/

[edit] Noun

poll (plural polls)

1. A tame parrot.

[edit] References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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[edit] Catalan

[edit] Etymology 1

Latin pullus.

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poll m. (plural polls)

1. A chicken.

[edit] Etymology 2

Ultimately from Latin pedis.

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poll m. (plural polls)

1. A louse.

[edit] See also

• llémena (louse)

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[edit] Irish

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [pˠoːl̪ˠ], [pˠɔl̪ˠ]

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poll m.

1. A hole
2. A pothole

[edit] Declension

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative poll poill Vocative a phoill a pholla Genitive poill poll Dative poll poill

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an poll na poill Genitive an phoill na bpoll Dative leis an bpoll don pholl leis na poill

[edit] Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
poll	pholl	bpoll
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

[edit] Synonyms

• (pothole): linntreog f.

[edit] Verb

poll

1. (transitive) puncture, pierce, make a hole in

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[edit] Middle English

[edit] Noun

poll

1. A head