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Pole vs. Poll — What's the Difference?

Pole vs. Poll — What's the Difference?

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Pole

Either extremity of an axis through a sphere.

Poll

The casting and registering of votes in an election.

Pole

Either of the regions contiguous to the extremities of the earth's rotational axis, the North Pole or the South Pole.

Poll

The number of votes cast or recorded.

Pole

(Physics) See magnetic pole.
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Poll

The places where votes are cast and registered during an election, considered as a group
The polls close in this state at 8:00.

Pole

(Electricity) Either of two oppositely charged terminals, as in an electric cell or battery.

Poll

A place where votes are cast and registered
I went to the polls before work to cast a vote.

Pole

(Astronomy) See celestial pole.

Poll

A survey of the public or of a sample of public opinion to acquire information.

Pole

Either extremity of the main axis of a nucleus, cell, or organism.

Poll

The head, especially the top of the head where hair grows.

Pole

Either end of the spindle formed in a cell during mitosis.

Poll

The blunt or broad end of a tool such as a hammer or axe.

Pole

The point on a nerve cell where a process originates.

Poll

To receive (a given number of votes).

Pole

Either of two antithetical ideas, propensities, forces, or positions.

Poll

To receive or record the votes of
Polling a jury.

Pole

A fixed point of reference.

Poll

To cast (a vote or ballot).

Pole

The origin in a polar coordinate system; the vertex of a polar angle.

Poll

To question in a survey; canvass.

Pole

A point in the complex plane at which a given function is not defined.

Poll

To cut off or trim (hair, horns, or wool, for example); clip.

Pole

A long, relatively slender, generally rounded piece of wood or other material.

Poll

To trim or cut off the hair, wool, branches, or horns of
Polled the sheep.
Polled the trees.

Pole

The long tapering wooden shaft extending up from the front axle of a vehicle to the collars of the animals drawing it; a tongue.

Poll

To vote at the polls in an election.

Pole

See rod.

Poll

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

Pole

A unit of area equal to a square rod.

Poll

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.

Pole

(Sports) The inside position on the starting line of a racetrack
Qualified in the time trials to start on the pole.

Poll

A polling place
The polls close at 8 p.m.

Pole

A native or inhabitant of Poland.

Poll

The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded. can "poll" also have another sense synonymous with "electoral register"?

Pole

A person of Polish ancestry.

Poll

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

Pole

To propel with a pole
Boatmen poling barges up a placid river.

Poll

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

Pole

To propel (oneself) or make (one's way) by the use of ski poles
"We ski through the glades on corn snow, then pole our way over a long one-hour runout to a road" (Frederick Selby).

Poll

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

Pole

To support (plants) with a pole.

Poll

The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.

Pole

To strike, poke, or stir with a pole.

Poll

A pet parrot.

Pole

To propel a boat or raft with a pole.

Poll

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

Pole

To use ski poles to maintain or gain speed.

Poll

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

Pole

Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.

Poll

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

Pole

A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.

Poll

(intransitive) To vote at an election.

Pole

(angling) A type of basic fishing rod.

Poll

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.

Pole

A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.

Poll

To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
To poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass

Pole

A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.

Poll

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

Pole

(historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (4 chain or 2 yards).

Poll

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

Pole

(motor racing) Pole position.

Poll

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

Pole

A gun.

Poll

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.

Pole

(vulgar) A penis

Poll

To be judged in a poll.

Pole

Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.

Poll

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

Pole

A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).

Poll

To impose a tax upon.

Pole

(geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.

Poll

To pay as one's personal tax.

Pole

(electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.

Poll

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

Pole

(complex analysis) For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z) \rightarrow \infty as z \rightarrow a.
The function f(z) = \frac{1}{z-3} has a single pole at z = 3.

Poll

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

Pole

(obsolete) The firmament; the sky.

Poll

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

Pole

Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.

Poll

A parrot; - familiarly so called.

Pole

To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.

Poll

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

Pole

To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.

Poll

The head; the back part of the head.

Pole

(transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
To pole beans or hops

Poll

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.

Pole

(transitive) To convey on poles.
To pole hay into a barn

Poll

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

Pole

(transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

Poll

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.

Pole

To strike (the ball) very hard.

Poll

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

Pole

(transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.

Poll

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

Pole

A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.

Poll

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

Pole

A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.

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.
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.

Pole

A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5 yards, or a square measure equal to 30 square yards; a rod; a perch.

Poll

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.

Pole

Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.

Poll

To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise.

Pole

A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian.

Poll

To impose a tax upon.

Pole

One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle.

Poll

To pay as one's personal tax.
The man that polled but twelve pence for his head.

Pole

The firmament; the sky.
Shoots against the dusky pole.

Poll

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.

Pole

To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops.

Poll

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.

Pole

To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.

Poll

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

Pole

To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.

Poll

To vote at an election.

Pole

To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

Poll

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

Pole

A long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic

Poll

The top of the head

Pole

A native or inhabitant of Poland

Poll

The part of the head between the ears

Pole

One of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions;
They are at opposite poles
They are poles apart

Poll

A tame parrot

Pole

A linear measure of 16.5 feet

Poll

The counting of votes (as in an election)

Pole

A square rod of land

Poll

Get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions

Pole

One of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and the celestial sphere

Poll

Vote in an election at a polling station

Pole

One of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface

Poll

Get the votes of

Pole

A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves

Poll

Convert into a pollard;
Pollard trees

Pole

A long fiberglass sports implement used for pole vaulting

Pole

One of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated

Pole

Propel with a pole;
Pole barges on the river
We went punting in Cambridge

Pole

Support on poles;
Pole climbing plants like beans

Pole

Deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole

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