{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "poʊl" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/poll.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/poll.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/poll.wav" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English pol, polle (\"scalp, pate\"), probably from or else cognate with Middle Dutch pol, pōle, polle (“top, summit; head”), 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”).\nAkin to Scots pow (“head, crown, skalp, skull”), Saterland Frisian pol (“round, full, brimming”), Low German polle (“head, tree-top, bulb”), Danish puld (“crown of a hat”), Swedish dialectal pull (“head”). Meaning \"collection of votes\" is first recorded 1625, from notion of \"counting heads\".", "Perhaps a shortening of Polly, a common name for pet parrots.", "From Ancient Greek πολλοί (polloí, “the many, the masses”), as in hoi polloi." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Alternative_forms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "pol, pole" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.\nSynonym: survey" }, { "mean": "A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.\nSynonyms: vote, election\nThe student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria." }, { "mean": "A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)\nThe polls close at 8 p.m." }, { "mean": "The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded." }, { "mean": "(now rare outside veterinary contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.\nSynonym: scalp" }, { "mean": "(in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count." }, { "mean": "The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer." }, { "mean": "The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate)." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group)." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To vote at an election." }, { "mean": "To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.\nHe polled a hundred votes more than his opponent." }, { "mean": "To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.\nto poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature)." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal)." }, { "mean": "To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.\nto poll a tree" }, { "mean": "(transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).\nThe network hub polled the department’s computers to determine which ones could still respond." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip." }, { "mean": "To impose a tax upon." }, { "mean": "To pay as one's personal tax." }, { "mean": "To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one." }, { "mean": "(law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation\na polled deed" } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.\nPoll Hereford\nRed Poll cows\n1757, The monthly review, or, literary journal, volume 17, page 416:\nSheep, that is, the Horned sort, and those without Horns, called Poll Sheep \n1960, Frank O'Loghlen, Frank H. Johnston, Cattle country: an illustrated survey of the Australian beef cattle industry, a complete directory of the studs, page 85:\nAbout 15000 cattle, comprising 10000 Hereford and Poll Hereford, 4000 Aberdeen Angus and 1000 Shorthorn and Poll Shorthorn, are grazed \n1970, The Pastoral review, volume 80, page 457:\nOtherwise, both horned and poll sheep continue to be bred from an inner stud." } ] }, { "name": "References", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "^ Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. \"poll, n.1\" Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2006.\n\n ^ 1859, Alexander Mansfield, Law Dictionary" } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A pet parrot." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(UK, dated, Cambridge University) One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman." } ] }, { "name": "References_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.C. 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