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.
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
- has multiple meanings: 1 a survey or sampling of people's opinions Many opinion polls are taken before an upcoming election to try and predict the public's voting patterns 2 ridings are broken into multiple polling districts, also called polls for short People in ridings vote in these polling stations You may hear a reporter say on election night "there are six polls reporting final results in this district "
v ,n 1 [techspeak] The action of checking the status of an input line, sensor, or memory location to see if a particular external event has been registered 2 To repeatedly call or check with someone: "I keep polling him, but he's not answering his phone; he must be swapped out " 3 To ask "Lunch? I poll for a takeout order daily "
the counting of votes (as in an election) a tame parrot the part of the head between the ears an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people convert into a pollard; "pollard trees"
The highest point of the horse's skull (the occipital crest) In common dressage usage, flexion "at the poll" refers to the longitudinal or lateral flexion of the joint immediately behind the poll
A poll is a survey in which people are asked their opinions about something, usually in order to find out how popular something is or what people intend to do in the future. Polls show that the European treaty has gained support in Denmark We are doing a weekly poll on the president, and clearly his popularity has declined see also opinion poll, straw poll