Definitions for polls

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polls poll

Spelling: [pohl]

IPA: /poʊl/

Polls is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in polls (llops).

Definitions for polls

noun

1. a sampling or collection of opinions on a subject, taken from either a selected or a random group of persons, as for the purpose of analysis.
2. Usually, polls. the place where votes are taken.
3. the registering of votes, as at an election.
4. the voting at an election.
5. the number of votes cast.
6. the numerical result of the voting.
7. an enumeration or a list of individuals, as for purposes of taxing or voting.
8. poll tax.
9. a person or individual in a number or list.
10. the head, especially the part of it on which the hair grows.
11. the back of the head.
12. the rear portion of the head of a horse; the nape.
13. the part of the head between the ears of certain animals, as the horse and cow.
14. the broad end or face of a hammer.
15. (especially at Cambridge University, England)
16. the body of students who read for or obtain a degree without honors.
17. Also called poll degree. pass degree.
18. polly.

verb (used with object)

1. to take a sampling of the attitudes or opinions of.
2. to receive at the polls, as votes.
3. to enroll (someone) in a list or register, as for purposes of taxing or voting.
4. to take or register the votes of (persons).
5. to deposit or cast at the polls, as a vote.
6. to bring to the polls, as voters.
7. to cut short or cut off the hair, wool, etc., of (an animal); crop; clip; shear.
8. to cut short or cut off (hair, wool, etc.).
9. to cut off the top of (a tree); pollard.
10. to cut off or cut short the horns of (cattle).

verb (used without object)

1. to vote at the polls; give one's vote.

Origin of polls

1250-1300; Middle English polle (hair of the) head Middle Low German: hair of the head, top of a tree or other plant; akin to Danish puld, Swedish pull crown of the head

Examples for polls

In an Oct. 31 poll from Washington, 12 percent of women claimed they were undecided about Initiative 502.

But somebody must have dealt you some hearty thwacks on the poll, my boy.

The first time I ever see that boy,' said poll, 'I charged him too much for a red-poll.

Unaware of his funeral, Timmins himself stood scratching his poll.

When a politician reached the top of the poll he got £400 a year.

"It is as unfair to brand women with chastity as with unchastity," said poll.

poll a bunch of random youths today, and nine out of ten will say they know the name Robert Downey Jr.

But so-called jungle primaries are notoriously hard to predict or poll.

And this is a poll, remember, not of Latinos, or of Cuban-Americans across the country.

It was the kind of political illegality that Doar and his 500 poll watchers had been looking for.