poll
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
Đồng nghĩa: survey
- 2.
A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.
The student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria.
Đồng nghĩa: vote, election
- 3.
A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
The polls close at 8 p.m.
- 4.
The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
- 5.
(now rare outside veterinary medicine contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
Đồng nghĩa: scalp
- 6.
(in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
- 7.
The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
- 8.
The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
- 9.
A pet parrot.
- 10.
(UK, dated)(UK, dated, Cambridge University) One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
- 2.
(transitive)To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
- 3.
(intransitive)To vote at an election.
- 4.
To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
He polled a hundred votes more than his opponent.
- 5.
To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass
- 6.
(transitive)To cut the hair of (a creature).
1579-1603, Thomas North, Plutarch's Lives His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs.
- 7.
(transitive)To remove the horns of (an animal).
- 8.
To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
to poll a tree
- 9.
(transitive)(transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
The network hub polled the department’s computers to determine which ones could still respond.
- 10.
(intransitive)(intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
- 11.
(obsolete)To extort from; to plunder; to strip. Especially in conjunction with pill for emphasis.
- 12.
To impose a tax upon.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.
Poll Hereford
Red Poll cows
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From Middle English pol, polle ("scalp, pate"), from or cognate with Middle Dutch pol, pōle, polle (top, summit; head), from *poll, from Proto-Germanic *pullaz (round object, head, top), from Proto-Indo-European *bolno-, *bōwl- (orb, round object, bubble), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (to blow, swell).