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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- An election or a survey of a particular group of people.
- (UK, dated, Cambridge University) One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
- A pet parrot.
- A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of individuals, especially electors.
- (usually, as plural) A place where voters cast ballots.
- The head, especially its top part.
- The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
- A fish, the pollard or European chub.
Adjektiivit
- (of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.
Verbit
- (transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
- (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
- (intransitive) To vote at an election.
- To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
- To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
- (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
- (transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
- To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
- (transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
- (intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
- (obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
- To impose a tax upon.
- To pay as one's personal tax.
- To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
- (legal) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation.
Esimerkit
- to poll a tree
- On election day, which candidate won at the polls?
- Otherwise, both horned and poll sheep continue to be bred from an inner stud.
- About 15000 cattle, comprising 10000 Hereford and Poll Hereford, 4000 Aberdeen Angus and 1000 Shorthorn and Poll Shorthorn, are grazed [...]
- Sheep, that is, the Horned sort, and those without Horns, called Poll Sheep [...]
- Red Poll cows
- Poll Hereford
- a polled deed
- polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms
- the man that polled but twelve pence for his head
- which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise
- 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.
- The network hub polled the department's computers to determine which ones could still respond.
- The student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria.
- His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs.
- when he [Absalom] polled his head
- Who, as he polled off his dart's head, so sure he had decreed / That all the counsels of their war he would poll off like it.
- to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass
- poll for points of faith his trusty vote
- He polled a hundred votes more than his opponent.
- And you might perceive the president and general manager, Mr. R. G. Atterbury, with his priceless polished poll, busy in the main office room dictating letters..
- ...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.
- The polls close at 8 p.m.
- The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll.
- We are the greater poll, and in true fear / They gave us our demands.
- All soldiers quartered in place are to remove [...] and not to return till one day after the poll is ended.
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