poll

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /pəʊl/|[pɒʊl]|/pɒl/    美 /pɔl/|/poʊl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
  2. One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman. UK,dated
  3. A pet parrot.
  4. 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.
  5. A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
    — The polls close at 8 p.m.
  6. The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
  7. The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
    — […]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.
  8. A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
    — We are the greater poll, and in true fear They gave us our demands.
  9. The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
  10. The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
动词 v.
  1. To take, record the votes of (an electorate). transitive
  2. To solicit mock votes from (a person or group). transitive
  3. To vote at an election. intransitive
    — Mr. Millbank's friends were not disheartened, as it was known that the leading members of Mr. Rigby's Committee had polled; whereas his opponent's were principally reserved.
  4. 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.
  5. To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
    — to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass
  6. To cut the hair of (a creature). transitive
    — when he [Absalom] polled his head
  7. To remove the horns of (an animal). transitive
  8. To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
    — to poll a tree
  9. To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network). transitive
    — The network hub polled the department’s computers to determine which ones could still respond.
  10. To be judged in a poll. intransitive
    — 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.
  11. To extort from; to plunder; to strip. Especially in conjunction with pill for emphasis. obsolete
    — they slew Julius Caesar, who neither pilled nor polled the country but only was a favorer and suborner of all them that did rob and spoil, by his countenance and authority.
  12. To impose a tax upon.
  13. To pay as one's personal tax.
    — the man that polled but twelve pence for his head
  14. To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
    — polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms
  15. To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation
    — a polled deed
形容词 adj.
  1. Bred without horns, and thus hornless.
    — Poll Hereford

词形变化

polls plural pol alternative pole alternative polls present,singular,third-person polling participle,present polled participle,past polled past pol alternative pole alternative pol alternative pole alternative polls plural polls plural

词汇关系

衍生词
blackpoll bypoll deed poll dodipole exit poll Gallup poll go to the polls minipoll opinion poll outpoll poleaxe pollage pollarchy poll book pollbook poll card pollee pollercoaster poll evil polling pollist pollman pollmeister poll parrot pollster polltaker polltaking poll tax poll-tax poll worker prepoll push poll push-poll Red Poll redpoll robopoll straw poll stunpoll telepoll tracking poll overpoll pollable poller repoll
相关词
pollard polliwog tadpole

词源

词源 1
From Middle English pol, polle ("scalp, pate"), from or cognate with Middle Dutch pol, pōle, polle (“top, summit; head”), from Proto-West Germanic *poll, from Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“round object, head, top”), from Proto-Indo-European *bolno-, *bōwl- (“orb, round object, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”).
Akin to Scots pow (“head, crown, scalp, skull”), Saterland Frisian pol (“round, full, brimming”, adjective), German Low German Polle, Poll (“round object, ball”), German Low German Poller (“head, tree-top, bulb”), Danish puld (“crown of a hat”), Swedish dialectal pull (“head”).
Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1625, from the notion of "counting heads".
词源 2
Perhaps a shortening of Polly, a common name for pet parrots.
词源 3
From Ancient Greek πολλοί (polloí, “the many, the masses”), as in hoi polloi.
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