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

1. noun. A parrot; -- familiarly so called.
2. noun. One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
3. noun. The head; the back part of the head.
4. noun. A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals.
5. noun. Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election.
6. noun. The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll.
7. noun. The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls.
8. noun. The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.
9. noun. The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a).
10. transitive 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.
11. transitive 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.
12. transitive verb. To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
13. transitive verb. To impose a tax upon.
14. transitive verb. To pay as one's personal tax.
15. transitive verb. To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
16. transitive 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.
17. transitive verb. To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee/ poll.
18. intransitive verb. To vote at an election.
19. noun. the counting of votes (as in an election)
20. noun. a tame parrot
21. noun. the part of the head between the ears
22. noun. the top of the head

    Synonyms: crown, pate

23. noun. an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people

    Synonyms: canvass

24. verb. convert into a pollard

    "pollard trees"

    Synonyms: pollard

25. verb. get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions

    Synonyms: canvas, canvass

26. verb. get the votes of
27. verb. vote in an election at a polling station

Synonyms

crown, pate, canvass, pollard, canvas

Common word forms

polls, polled, pollen, poller, polling, pollable

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