Poll

Noun

 * 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.
 * 1) as plural A place voters cast ballots.
 * The polls close at 8 p.m.
 * 1) Hair
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) The head, especially its top part.
 * 2) * 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..

Synonyms

 * election, survey
 * hair

Derived terms

 * polling


 * straw poll
 * opinion poll
 * tadpole

Verb

 * 1)  To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
 * 2)  To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
 * 3)  To cut the hair of (a creature).
 * 4)  To remove the horns of (an animal).
 * 5)  To (repeatedly) ask status of other machine(s) in network.
 * The network hub polled the department's computers to determine which ones could still respond.

Adjective

 * 1)  bred without horns (when horned is normal for the breed).
 * The Poll Hereford was first developed in significant numbers by Hereford breeders in the USA. The breeders (from the Mid-West) saw benefits in a hornless breed, so naturally occurring ‘hornless’ Herefords were selected and bred. By 1907 there were sufficient numbers to establish the first Poll Hereford register. NSW Department of Primary Industy
 * The Red Poll Cow is one of the traditional native British dual purpose breeds (beef & milk). It is naturally polled (hornless). Red Poll Cattle Society

Noun

 * 1) A pet parrot.

Noun

 * 1)  One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.

Adjectives for Poll
taxable; voting; straw; nation-wide.

Thesaurus
Australian ballot, Hare system, VAT, abbreviate, abridge, abstract, ad valorem duty, agenda, alcohol tax, amusement tax, ask, assessment on default, aye, ballot, ballot box, balloting place, beadroll, bean, belfry, bob, boil down, book, brow, cadastre, calendar, call off, call over, call the roll, canvass, canvassing, capital gains tax, capitation, capitation tax, capsulize, carve, cast a ballot, casting vote, catalog, census, census report, chalk, chalk up, check in, checklist, checkroll, chronicle, chump, clip, compress, condense, conduct a poll, conk, consumer research, consumer-preference survey, contract, corporation tax, count, counting heads, crop, crown, cumulative voting, curtail, customs, customs duty, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, death duty, death tax, deciding vote, divide, division, dock, docket, dome, doomage, dramatis personae, duty, election returns, elide, enfranchisement, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, enumerate, epitomize, estate duty, estate tax, excess profits tax, excise, excise tax, export tax, fagot vote, federal tax, figures, file, fill out, foliate, foreshorten, franchise, gabelle, get, gift tax, grave, graveyard vote, hand vote, head, head count, head tax, headpiece, honor roll, impanel, import tax, incise, income tax, index, inheritance tax, inquiry, inscribe, insert, internal revenue tax, interview, jot down, jury list, jury panel, land tax, landslide, lineup, liquor tax, list, list system, local tax, log, luxury tax, make a memorandum, make a note, make a survey, make an entry, make out, mark down, matriculate, measure, minute, mow, muster, muster roll, nay, nip, no, noddle, noggin, nontransferable vote, noodle, nose count, note, note down, nuisance tax, number, numerate, official count, opinion poll, order of business, page, paginate, pate, personal property tax, place upon record, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plump, plumper, plural vote, poll tax, pollard, pollbook, polling, polling booth, polling place, polling station, polls, post, post up, preferential voting, program, property roll, property tax, property-increment tax, proportional representation, protective tariff, provincial tax, proxy, prune, public-opinion poll, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, quantify, quantize, question, questionary, questionnaire, rates, reap, recap, recapitulate, receive, record, record vote, recount, reduce, reduce to writing, referendum, register, representation, retrench, returns, revenue tariff, ridge, right to vote, rising vote, roll, roll call, roster, rota, run over, sales tax, salt tax, sample, say, school tax, sconce, scroll, secret ballot, set down, severance tax, shave, shear, shorten, show of hands, single vote, snap vote, snub, specific duty, state tax, straw vote, stunt, suffrage, sum up, summarize, survey, synopsize, tabulate, take down, take in, tally, tape, tape-record, tariff, tariff duty, tax roll, telephone tax, telescope, tell, tidal wave, transferable vote, trim, truncate, use tax, value added tax, videotape, viva voce, voice, voice vote, vote, voting, voting booth, voting machine, voting right, win, window tax, write, write down, write in, write out, write up, write-in, write-in vote, yea, yeas and nays, yes

Etymology 1
pol: "head, hair of the head" (recorded in English since c.1290), from poll: "head" or  pole: "head, top", both from  from. Akin to puld: "crown of a hat",  dialectal pull: "head". Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1625, from notion of "counting heads".

Etymology 2
Perhaps a shortening of Polly:, a common name for pet parrots.

Etymology 3
From undefined:

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 投票, 選舉, 选举
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: anketa
 * Finnish: äänestys, mielipidemittaus
 * French: sondage


 * German: Umfrage
 * Greek: (dimoskópisi)
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ポール
 * Russian: опрос


 * Finnish: äänestyspaikka
 * Greek: (kálpi)


 * Russian: избирательный участок, избирательный пункт

Verb

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: suorittaa mielipidetutkimus


 * Italian: voti
 * Spanish: encuesta, encuestas


 * Finnish: leikata sarvet
 * Irish: dí-adharc


 * Italian: le corna

Noun

 * 1) A chicken.

Noun

 * 1) A louse.

Etymology 1
pullus:.

Etymology 2
Ultimately from pedis:.

Noun

 * 1) hole
 * 2) pothole

Verb

 * 1)  puncture, pierce, make a hole in

Etymology
From poll: <  pol: (compare  pool:).

Noun

 * 1) A head

Noun

 * 1) mud, mire
 * 2) pond, pool, bog