Vote vs. Poll
Vote and Poll Definitions
Vote
A formal expression of preference for a candidate for office or for a proposed resolution of an issue
Let's decide the matter by vote.
Poll
The casting and registering of votes in an election.
Vote
The act of voting
It took several votes to decide the matter.
Poll
The number of votes cast or recorded.
Vote
A means by which such a preference is made known, such as a raised hand or a marked ballot
Looked around the room and counted the votes in favor.
Poll
The places where votes are cast and registered during an election, considered as a group
The polls close in this state at 8:00.
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Vote
The number of votes cast in an election or to resolve an issue
A heavy vote in favor of the bill.
Poll
A place where votes are cast and registered
I went to the polls before work to cast a vote.
Vote
A group of voters alike in some way
The African American vote.
The rural vote.
Poll
A survey of the public or of a sample of public opinion to acquire information.
Vote
The result of an election or referendum
The measure was defeated in a resounding negative vote.
Poll
The head, especially the top of the head where hair grows.
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Vote
The right to participate as a voter; suffrage
When the nation gave the vote to women.
Poll
The blunt or broad end of a tool such as a hammer or axe.
Vote
To express one's preference for a candidate or for a proposed resolution of an issue; cast a vote
Voting against the measure.
Poll
To receive (a given number of votes).
Vote
To express a choice or an opinion
The children voted unanimously by jumping up and down.
Poll
To receive or record the votes of
Polling a jury.
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Vote
To express one's preference for by vote
Voted the straight Republican ticket.
Poll
To cast (a vote or ballot).
Vote
To decide the disposition of by vote, as by electing or defeating
Vote in a new mayor.
Voted out their representative.
Vote down the amendment.
Poll
To question in a survey; canvass.
Vote
To bring into existence or make available by vote
Vote new funds for a program.
Poll
To cut off or trim (hair, horns, or wool, for example); clip.
Vote
To be guided by in voting
Vote one's conscience.
Poll
To trim or cut off the hair, wool, branches, or horns of
Polled the sheep.
Polled the trees.
Vote
To declare or pronounce by general consent
Voted the play a success.
Poll
To vote at the polls in an election.
Vote
(Informal) To state as a preference or opinion
I vote we eat out tonight.
Poll
A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
Vote
A formalized choice on legally relevant measures such as employment or appointment to office or a proceeding about a legal dispute.
The city council decided the matter should go to public vote.
Parliament will hold a vote of confidence regarding the minister.
One occasion indicative votes were used was in 2003 when MPs were presented with seven different options on how to reform the House of Lords.
Poll
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.
Vote
An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot
The Supreme Court upheld the principle of one person, one vote.
Poll
A polling place
The polls close at 8 p.m.
Vote
(obsolete) an ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer
Poll
The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded. can "poll" also have another sense synonymous with "electoral register"?
Vote
(obsolete) a formalized petition or request
Poll
The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
Vote
(obsolete) any judgment of intellect leading to a formal opinion, a point of view
Poll
(in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
Vote
Any judgment of intellect leading not only to a formal opinion but also to a particular choice in a legally relevant measure, a point of view as published
Poll
The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
Vote
(intransitive) to cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election
Did you vote last month?
Poll
The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
Vote
(transitive) to choose or grant by means of a vote, or by general consent
The depository may vote shares on behalf of investors who have not submitted instruction to the bank.
Poll
A pet parrot.
Vote
An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.
Poll
One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
Vote
A wish, choice, or opinion, of a person or a body of persons, expressed in some received and authorized way; the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference, or choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the person voting has an interest in common with others, either in electing a person to office, or in passing laws, rules, regulations, etc.; suffrage.
Poll
(transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
Vote
That by means of which will or preference is expressed in elections, or in deciding propositions; voice; a ballot; a ticket; as, a written vote.
The freeman casting with unpurchased handThe vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
Poll
(transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
Vote
Expression of judgment or will by a majority; legal decision by some expression of the minds of a number; as, the vote was unanimous; a vote of confidence.
Poll
(intransitive) To vote at an election.
Vote
Votes, collectively; as, the Tory vote; the labor vote.
Poll
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.
Vote
To express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either viva voce, or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations, etc., or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an interest with others.
The vote for a duelist is to assist in the prostration of justice, and, indirectly, to encourage the crime.
To vote on large principles, to vote honestly, requires a great amount of information.
Poll
To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
To poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass
Vote
To choose by suffrage; to elec ; as, to vote a candidate into office.
Poll
(transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
Vote
To enact, establish, grant, determine, etc., by a formal vote; as, the legislature voted the resolution.
Parliament voted them one hundred thousand pounds.
Poll
(transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
Vote
To declare by general opinion or common consent, as if by a vote; as, he was voted a bore.
Poll
To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
To poll a tree
Vote
To condemn; to devote; to doom.
Poll
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.
Vote
A choice that is made by voting;
There were only 17 votes in favor of the motion
Poll
To be judged in a poll.
Vote
The opinion of a group as determined by voting;
They put the question to a vote
Poll
(obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
Vote
A legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment;
American women got the vote in 1920
Poll
To impose a tax upon.
Vote
A body of voters who have the same interests;
He failed to get the Black vote
Poll
To pay as one's personal tax.
Vote
The total number of votes cast;
They are hoping for a large vote
Poll
To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
Vote
Express one's preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution; cast a vote;
He voted for the motion
None of the Democrats voted last night
Poll
(legal) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation
A polled deed
Vote
Express one's choice or preference by vote;
Vote the Democratic ticket
Poll
(of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.
Poll Hereford
Red Poll cows
Vote
Express a choice or opinion;
I vote that we all go home
She voted for going to the Chinese restaurant
Poll
A parrot; - familiarly so called.
Vote
Be guided by in voting;
Vote one's conscience
Poll
One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
Vote
Bring into existence or make available by vote;
They voted aid for the underdeveloped countries in Asia
Poll
The head; the back part of the head.
Poll
A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals.
We are the greater poll, and in true fearThey gave us our demands.
The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll.
Poll
Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election.
Poll
The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll.
All soldiers quartered in place are to remove . . . and not to return till one day after the poll is ended.
Poll
The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls.
Poll
The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.
Poll
The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a).
Poll
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.
When he [Absalom] pollled his head.
His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs.
Poll
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.
Who, as he polled off his dart's head, so sure he had decreedThat all the counsels of their war he would poll off like it.
Poll
To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise.
Poll
To impose a tax upon.
Poll
To pay as one's personal tax.
The man that polled but twelve pence for his head.
Poll
To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
Polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms.
Poll
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.
And poll for points of faith his trusty vote.
Poll
To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee poll.
Poll
To vote at an election.
Poll
An inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
Poll
The top of the head
Poll
The part of the head between the ears
Poll
A tame parrot
Poll
The counting of votes (as in an election)
Poll
Get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
Poll
Vote in an election at a polling station
Poll
Get the votes of
Poll
Convert into a pollard;
Pollard trees
