poll

Определение poll в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: To cut the hair of (a creature); Hair
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.; One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman; To take, record the votes of (an electorate); The head, especially its top part
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.; To remove the horns of (an animal); A place voters cast ballots
The polls close at 8 p.m.; An election or a survey of a particular group
The student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria.; A pet parrot; To (repeatedly) ask status of other machine(s) in network
The network hub polled the department's computers to determine which ones could still respond.; To solicit mock votes from (a person or group); vote in an election at a polling station; {n} the head, a register of heads or of votes; {v} to lop the tops of trees, cut off or shorten hair, shear, take a list of voters, vote, strip; 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 "; The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax; A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals; 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 "; To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc; 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 head; the back part of the head; A parrot; familiarly so called; To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed; the top of the head; To extort from; to plunder; to strip; 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; for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one; To impose a tax upon; Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election; an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people; What Tools would you like to see in the next release? Versioning WYSIWYG Interface Page Caching Better Document Handling Members Areas [ Results | Polls ] Comments: 0 | Votes: 593; (v ) To check periodically the condition or state of a hardware device, data item, or software subsystem; get the votes of; To pay as one's personal tax; See Pollard, 3 (a); To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp; get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions get the votes of vote in an election at a polling station; get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions; the part of the head between the ears; The sending of an NTP packet from a host to an NTP time server to request the current time The server responds by recording the current time in the packet, then sending it back to the originating host See also ``NTP packet''; convert into a pollard; "pollard trees"; List or record of persons, especially for taxing or voting; Repeatedly trying a call on a non-blocking socket until it succeeds Example; The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll; Français : Scrutation Deutsch : Fahrzeugaufruf The process of automatically requesting information from a vehicle See also : Poll cycle; {f} receive votes; vote, elect; count votes, make a survey; survey of public opinion, as in: The poll shows that your candidate is taking the lead; See Dee&?; poll; The polls means an election for a country's government, or the place where people go to vote in an election. In 1945, Winston Churchill was defeated at the polls Voters are due to go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president; the counting of votes (as in an election); A mechanism used to determine if an event has occurred by periodically checking for a particular status Typical events include arrival of data, completion of an action, and errors; An explicit request to a device for the value of one of its network variables; a tame parrot; The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls; Most often used for political research in which the electorate’s likely behavior is investigated Often asks "horse race" kinds of questions about candidates or ballot measures; This is the highest point on the top of the head of a horse; To vote at an election; to mow or crop; sometimes with off; as, to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass; The space between the ears on top of the head; A term used in early tax records to indicate a person A person eligible to vote; {f} trim tree branches, prune a tree; cut off the horns of an animal; the place people go to vote OR the counting of votes; The European chub; {i} voting, electing; list of voters; counting of votes; number of votes; referendum; used in early tax records denoting a taxable person; person eligible to vote; A canvassing of people's opinions on some question; 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; Joint between head and neck, behind the horse's ears where the headstall is placed Flexed when the horse is on the bit, it theoretically is the highest point of the neck In fact, the angle and height depend on the build of the horse
poll book: Lists of voters and who they voted for at Parliamentary and other elections, before the introduction of the secret ballot
poll book: An official register, formerly used to record votes at an election
poll books: plural form of poll book
poll evil: an inflammation identical with fistulous withers except that it is on the poll of a horse
poll parrot: A tame parrot
poll parrot: to chatter like a parrot
poll parrot: to speak, repeat, or imitate something like a parrot
poll tax: A tax required in order to vote
poll tax: A tax determined as a uniform, fixed amount per individual
poll tax: tax of a fixed amount that is imposed on every individual citizen
poll tax: A state-imposed tax upon the voters as a prerequisite to registration It was rendered unconstitutional in national elections by the Twenty-fourth Amendment and in state elections by the Supreme Court in 1966
poll tax: Payment required to vote Some states formerly required a poll tax, but it is now outlawed
poll tax: a uniform per capita payment or fee
poll tax: A tax levied on people rather than on property, often as a requirement for voting. a tax of a particular amount that is collected from every citizen of a country (poll ; POLL). Tax of a uniform amount levied on each individual. The most famous British poll tax was the one levied in 1380, a main cause of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt. In the U.S., poll taxes were used as a voting prerequisite in the southern states; when payment was made a prerequisite to voting, impoverished blacks (and often poor whites) were effectively denied the vote. In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could not levy a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in state and local elections
poll tax: Fee that allowed one to vote
poll tax: a tax of a fixed amount per person and payable as a requirement for the right to vote
population poll: survey of the population, referendum
Gallup poll: A poll of the opinion of randomly chosen persons, used to represent the opinion of the public, conducted by or one the companies he founded
Gallup poll: Any poll of the opinion of randomly chosen persons, used to represent the opinion of the public
I just new I wouldn't have to keep sending Gallup polls out to Negroes all around the country. And that is how I found myself starting my junior year in Ms. Gruwell's class.
exit poll: A poll taken of a sample of voters as they leave a voting station; used to predict the outcome of an election
opinion poll: A poll organized in an attempt to quantify public opinion on a subject
poller: One who registers voters or conducts a poll
poller: One who votes
polling: present participle of the verb to poll
polling: A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral device to see if it has data to transfer
polls: A place where votes are cast in elections
On the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, American voters go to the polls for general elections.
polls: plural form of poll
polls: Third-person singular simple present indicative form of poll
push poll: a campaign technique in which a fake poll is used to alter the views of respondents. Push polls are generally viewed as form of negative campaigning. The term is also sometimes used incorrectly to refer to actual polls which test political messages, some of which may be negative
straw poll: A survey of opinion which is unofficial, casual, or ad hoc
poller: {n} one who voter, a robber, a plunderer
Gallup poll: opinion poll carried out by taking a sample of people as representative cross section of society with regard to a specific matter or issue
Red Poll: Any of a breed of reddish, hornless cattle developed in England and raised for milk and meat
clod poll: {i} blockhead, clod; dolt; stupid person
deed poll: A deed signed only by the grantor
deed poll: A deed which is ; polled; or smooth; i e not indented: a unilateral deed; e g for publishing a change of names
deed poll: A deed of one part, or executed by only one party, and distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the parchment or paper cut even, or polled as it was anciently termed, instead of being indented
deed poll: In Britain, if you change your name by deed poll, you change it officially and legally. a legal document signed by only one person, for example in order to officially change your name
deed poll: A legal instrument which conveys title and is made by only one party
deed poll: a deed made and executed by only one party
deed poll: A deed made by only one party who binds only himself or herself to the deed
eve-of-poll speech: speech made the night before elections
exit poll: A poll taken of a sample of voters as they leave a polling place, used especially to predict the outcome of an election or determine the opinions and characteristics of the candidates' supporters. the activity of asking people how they have voted in an election in order to discover the likely result
exit poll: a poll of voters as they leave the voting place; usually taken by news media in order to predict the outcome of an election
exit poll: informal survey of voters as they leave the polling place (used as an early indicator of the outcome of the election)
have one's name on the poll: appear on the list of candidates for an election
internal poll: internal survey which is taken within an institution
keep people from the poll: prevent people from voting
opinion poll: An opinion poll involves asking people's opinions on a particular subject, especially one concerning politics. Nearly three-quarters of people questioned in an opinion poll agreed with the government's decision. = poll. the process of asking a large group of people the same questions in order to find out what most people think about something
opinion poll: an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
opinion poll: survey of people's opinions
polled: & Fl
polled: (b) Cropped; hence, bald; said of a person
polled: "The polled bachelor
polled: past of poll
polled: Having no horns; hornless
polled: (d) Without horns; as, polled cattle; polled sheep
polled: " Beau
polled: Specifically: (a) Lopped; said of trees having their tops cut off
polled: Deprived of a poll, or of something belonging to the poll
polled: (c) Having cast the antlers; said of a stag
polled: Beau
polled: {s} sampled, counted, included in a survey
poller: One who polls; specifically: (a) One who polls or lops trees
poller: One who cuts hair; a barber
poller: (d) One who registplws votplws, or one who enters his name as a voter
poller: ] (c) One who extorts or plunders
poller: {i} person who takes surveys, one who samples public opinion by conducting a survey
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poller: [Obs
poller: One who votes]]
poller: One who polls or lops trees
poller: (b) One who polls or cuts hair; a barber
polling: Access method in which a primary network device inquires weather secondaries have data to transmit The inquiry message gives the secondary device the right to transmit
polling: A process in which a device polls the terminals connected to it, asking whether or not they have data to be sent to the host
polling: A feature which permits a fax machine to call another machine and request it to transmit documents Pages must be left in the document feeder or in memory and the polling unit must have the passcode of the unit it is calling
polling: A control message sent from a master terminal to a slave terminal as an invitation for the slave to transmit
polling: During the night provided you have completed the 'end of day' procedure correctly, details of card payments will be collected via your equipment through a phone line This process is known as polling, and relates to off-line terminals only
polling: Connecting to another system to check for e-mail and messages
polling: - Sending pull messages at preprogrammed rates Often used to simulate push Polling is problematic because if the pull rate is too low then information may be stale when you receive it If the pull rate is too high then you waste time and bandwidth sending unneeded pull requests An example of polling is setting your computer to check the POP server every 5 minutes for new email Your computer sends a message "is anything new? Give it to me"...how about now? how about now?..." This results in a lot of network traffic An application or person that does this is a network hog
polling: A method of updating data in a system, where one task sends a message to a second task on a regular basis, to check if a data point has changed If so, the change in data is sent to the first task This method is most effective when there are few data points in the system Otherwise, exception reporting is generally faster Although it has an exception-reporting architecture, the Cascade DataHub can support polling as needed
polling: A centrally controlled technique of sequentially calling a number of drops to permit them to transmit information back to a field master or to the traffic operations center
polling: The transmission of a signal from the BTS to the mobile station to find out if the mobile station is still within the vicinity of the BTS
polling: A process in which a number of peripheral devices, remote stations, or nodes in a computer network are interrogated, one at a time, to determine if service is required
polling: This is the approach used most often for task management Using this approach, a task attempts to execute during regular intervals Based on its status, the task will leave some sort of marker (a file or a db record) indicating if any dependent task should be executed Dependent tasks must also be scheduled on a polling basis to check for the marker and determine whether they need to run This approach leads to extremely high latency for task startup On average, the time between the original event (that the first task was watching for) and the execution of the dependent task is 1/2 of the sum of the polling intervals for both tasks This means that if the first task is set to poll on 1 minute intervals, and the second on 5 minute intervals, on average there will be a 3 minute latency between the originating event and the execution of the second task
polling: a certificate revocation list (CRL) delivery model which requires the certificate user to request the current CRL whenever verifying a digital certificate One polling problem is the time delay between certificate authority (CA) certificate revocation and CA publication of a new CRL
polling: A media-access-control strategy in which a controlling computer mediates access to the communication channel
polling: Interrogation of devices for purposes such as to avoid contention, to determine operational status, or to determine readiness to send or receive data
polling: The process of repeatedly testing until a condition becomes true Polling can be inefficient if the time between tests is short compared with the time it will take for the condition to become true A polling thread should sleep between consecutive tests in order to give other threads a chance to run An alternative approach to polling is to arrange for an interrupt to be sent when the condition is true, or to use the wait and notify mechanism associated with threads
polling: Polling is the act of voting in an election. There has been a busy start to polling in today's local elections = voting
polling: the action of taking a poll
polling: The ability of the fax machine to call remote locations and to retrieve any waiting fax messages
polling: Mechanism to handle asynchronous events by actively checking to determine if an event has occurred
polling: Primary link station systematic interrogation of secondary link stations Used to avoid contention/collisions, determine operational status, and determine preparedness to transmit data
polling: The process or collecting call and network event records by periodically contacting a storage device, mediation system or file storage unit and requesting data transmission Can be performed on a dial-up basis or using dedicated data communications facilities or local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs) or the Internet
polling: Plunder, or extortion
polling: Polling is the fax mode of operation where the caller requests the remote answering machine to send a fax
polling: The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges
polling: Connecting to another system to check for things like mail or news
polling: A communications control method used by some computer/terminal systems whereby a "master" station asks many devices attached to a common transmission medium, in turn, whether they have information to send
polling: The act of voting, or of registering a vote
polling: a process in which the status of devices attached to a bus system is periodically sampled
polling: Polling is a routine that is constantly being performed by your computer It checks each device individually to see if there is any new information or if the device is ready to send or receive data
polling: {i} voting, electing; elections
polls: Refers to the polls on the CyberStitchers EGA Yahoo! Groups page These are used for voting and indicating attendance Voting is limited to current chapter members
polls: the place where people vote
polls: {i} place where people vote
polls: If popularity is equated with goodness, then James Last, Elvis Prestley and Elton John must be the best Fortunately, there are some listeners who are aware enough to treat popularity polls with the contempt they deserve, and not follow the sheep As with political opinion polls, the main function of musical polls is to influence opinion rather than reflect it
polls: plural of poll
polls: third-person singular of poll
polls: A place where votes are cast and recorded
pollster: A pollster is a person or organization who asks large numbers of people questions to find out their opinions on particular subjects. someone who works for a company that prepares and asks questions to find out what people think about a particular subject
pollster: A professional whose primary job is conducting pre-election polls
pollster: {i} one who conducts surveys, one who conducts a poll
pollster: someone who conducts surveys of public opinion; "a pollster conducts public opinion polls"; "a headcounter counts heads
public opinion poll: poll: an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
public opinion poll: survey of general public opinion
push poll: pseudo-poll in which supporters of a candidate conduct biased surveys intended to disparage the opponent (the questions are formed in a way that highlights the opponent's faults)
red poll: hornless short-haired breed of beef and dairy cattle
straw poll: A straw poll is the unofficial questioning of a group of people to find out their opinion about something. A straw poll conducted at the end of the meeting found most people agreed with Mr Forth. an informal test of several people's opinions to see what the general feeling about something is
straw poll: informal or unofficial opinion poll
tracking poll: An opinion poll in which the same sample, such as a small number of voters, is questioned periodically to measure shifts in opinion

poll

Турецкое произношение

pōl

Синонимы

election, survey, hair, ballot, canvass, count, figures, opinion, returns, sampling, vote, voting, enroll, examine, interview

Произношение

/ˈpōl/ /ˈpoʊl/

Этимология

[ pOl ] (noun.) 14th century. Middle English pol, polle "head, hair of the head" (recorded in English since c.1290), from Middle Low German pol, poll "head" or Middle Dutch pōle "head, top", both from Proto-Germanic *pūliō(n), *pull-, *puls- (“head, top, round”) from Proto-Indo-European *bōul- (“orb, round object, bubble”). Akin to Danish puld "crown of a hat", Swedish dialectal pull "head". Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1625, from notion of "counting heads".