Election vs. Poll

Electionnoun

A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.

‘The parliamentary elections will be held in March.’;

Pollnoun

A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.

Electionnoun

The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.

‘The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.’;

Pollnoun

A formal election.

‘The student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria.’;

Electionnoun

An option that is selected.

‘W-4 election’;

Pollnoun

A polling place

‘The polls close at 8 p.m.’;

Electionnoun

(archaic) Any conscious choice.

Pollnoun

The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.

Electionnoun

(theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.

Pollnoun

(in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.

Electionnoun

(obsolete) Those who are elected.

Pollnoun

The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.

Electionnoun

The act of choosing; choice; selection.

Pollnoun

The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.

Electionnoun

The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.

‘Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom.’;

Pollnoun

A pet parrot.

Electionnoun

Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.

Pollnoun

One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.

Electionnoun

Discriminating choice; discernment.

‘To use men with much difference and election is good.’;

Pollverb

(transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).

Electionnoun

Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; - one of the "five points" of Calvinism.

‘There is a remnant according to the election of grace.’;

Pollverb

(transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).

Electionnoun

The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.

Pollverb

(intransitive) To vote at an election.

Electionnoun

Those who are elected.

‘The election hath obtained it.’; ‘He has made his election to walk, in the main, in the old paths.’;

Pollverb

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.’;

Electionnoun

a vote to select the winner of a position or political office;

‘the results of the election will be announced tonight’;

Pollverb

To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.

‘to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass’;

Electionnoun

the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice;

‘her election of medicine as a profession’;

Pollverb

(transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).

Electionnoun

the status or fact of being elected;

‘they celebrated his election’;

Pollverb

(transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).

Electionnoun

the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)

Pollverb

To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.

‘to poll a tree’;

Election

An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century.

Pollverb

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.’;

Pollverb

To be judged in a poll.

Pollverb

(obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.

Pollverb

To impose a tax upon.

Pollverb

To pay as one's personal tax.

Pollverb

To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.

Pollverb

(legal) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation.

‘a polled deed’;

Polladjective

(of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.

‘Poll Hereford’; ‘Red Poll cows’;

Pollnoun

A parrot; - familiarly so called.

Pollnoun

One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.

Pollnoun

The head; the back part of the head.

Pollnoun

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.’;

Pollnoun

Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election.

Pollnoun

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.’;

Pollnoun

The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls.

Pollnoun

The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.

Pollnoun

The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a).

Pollverb

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.’;

Pollverb

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.’;

Pollverb

To extort from; to plunder; to strip.

‘Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise.’;

Pollverb

To impose a tax upon.

Pollverb

To pay as one's personal tax.

‘The man that polled but twelve pence for his head.’;

Pollverb

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.’;

Pollverb

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.’;

Pollverb

To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee poll.

Pollverb

To vote at an election.

Pollnoun

an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people

Pollnoun

the top of the head

Pollnoun

the part of the head between the ears

Pollnoun

a tame parrot

Pollnoun

the counting of votes (as in an election)

Pollverb

get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions

Pollverb

vote in an election at a polling station

Pollverb

get the votes of

Pollverb

convert into a pollard;

‘pollard trees’;