Poll

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
2. isim 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.”

3. isim A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)

   “The polls close at 8 p.m.”

4. isim The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
5. isim The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.

   “[…]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.”

6. isim A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.

   “We are the greater poll, and in true fear They gave us our demands.”

7. isim The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
8. isim The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
9. fiil To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
10. fiil To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
11. fiil To vote at an election.

    “Mr. Millbank's friends were not disheartened, as it was known that the leading members of Mr. Rigby's Committee had polled; whereas his opponent's were principally reserved.”

12. fiil 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.”

13. fiil To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.

    “to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass”

14. fiil To cut the hair of (a creature).

    “when he [Absalom] polled his head”

15. fiil To remove the horns of (an animal).
16. fiil To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.

    “to poll a tree”

17. fiil 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.”

18. fiil To be judged in a poll.

    “The election was a resounding defeat for Robert McCartney who polled badly in the six constituencies he contested and even lost his own Assembly seat in North Down.”

19. fiil To extort from; to plunder; to strip. Especially in conjunction with pill for emphasis.

    “they slew Julius Caesar, who neither pilled nor polled the country but only was a favorer and suborner of all them that did rob and spoil, by his countenance and authority.”

20. fiil To impose a tax upon.
21. fiil To pay as one's personal tax.

    “the man that polled but twelve pence for his head”

22. fiil To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.

    “polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms”

23. fiil To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation

    “a polled deed”

24. sıfat Bred without horns, and thus hornless.

    “Poll Hereford”

25. isim A pet parrot.
26. isim One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
27. özel isim A diminutive of the female given name Mary.

    “"A gentleman, please Sir," said the blushing Mary, (or Poll as some unrespective and light-minded persons have misnamed her), and the gentleman entered.”

28. özel isim A common pet name for a parrot.
29. isim A disreputable woman.
30. özel isim A surname transferred from the given name.