Dictionary Entry
poll
poll is a 4-letter English word with 27 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A parrot; -- familiarly so called. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 27 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A parrot; -- familiarly so called.
- 2noun
One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
- 3noun
The head; the back part of the head.
- 4noun
A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals.
- 5noun
Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election.
- 6noun
The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll.
- 7noun
The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls.
- 8noun
The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.
- 9noun
The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a).
- 10transitive verb
To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop; to shear; as, to poll the head; to poll a tree.
- 11transitive verb
To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop; -- sometimes with off; as, to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass.
- 12transitive verb
To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
- 13transitive verb
To impose a tax upon.
- 14transitive verb
To pay as one's personal tax.
- 15transitive verb
To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
- 16transitive verb
To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters; as, he polled a hundred votes more than his opponent.
- 17transitive verb
To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee/ poll.
- 18intransitive verb
To vote at an election.
- 19noun
the counting of votes (as in an election)
- 20noun
a tame parrot
- 21noun
the part of the head between the ears
- 22noun
the top of the head
- 23noun
an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
Synonyms
- 24verb
convert into a pollard
"pollard trees"
Synonyms
- 25verb
get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
- 26verb
get the votes of
- 27verb
vote in an election at a polling station
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