Pole vs. Poll — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pole and Poll
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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 , any point for which as .
The function has a single pole at .
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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