Poll vs. Ping — What's the Difference?

The casting and registering of votes in an election.

A sharp, high-pitched sound, as that made by a bullet striking metal.

The number of votes cast or recorded.

A protocol that sends a message to another computer and waits for acknowledgment, often used to check if another computer on a network is reachable.

The places where votes are cast and registered during an election, considered as a group

See knock.

A place where votes are cast and registered

To make a sharp, high-pitched, metallic sound.

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

To test the connectivity of (a computer) to a network by using the ping protocol

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

(Informal) To reach out to (someone), as by text message or email, to establish or maintain communication

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

A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.

To receive (a given number of votes).

(submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.

To receive or record the votes of

(networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.

To cast (a vote or ballot).

An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.

To question in a survey; canvass.

(networking) Latency.

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

(video games) A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.

To trim or cut off the hair, wool, branches, or horns of

(WMF jargon) A notification.

To vote at the polls in an election.

To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.

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

(submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.

A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.

(networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.

A polling place

(by extension) To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.

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

(colloquial) To flick.

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

To bounce.

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

To cause something to bounce.

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

To call out audibly.

The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.

To penalize.

A pet parrot.

The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.

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

To make the sound called ping.

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

A river in western Thailand; a major tributary of the Chao Phraya

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

A sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)

(intransitive) To vote at an election.

Hit with a pinging noise;

To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.

Sound like a car engine that is firing too early;

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

Make a short high-pitched sound;

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

Contact, usually in order to remind of something;

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

Send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active;

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

To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).

To be judged in a poll.

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

To impose a tax upon.

To pay as one's personal tax.

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

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

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

A parrot; - familiarly so called.

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

The head; the back part of the head.

A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals.

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

The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll.

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

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

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

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.

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.

To extort from; to plunder; to strip.

To impose a tax upon.

To pay as one's personal tax.

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

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.

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

To vote at an election.

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

The top of the head

The part of the head between the ears

A tame parrot

The counting of votes (as in an election)

Get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions

Vote in an election at a polling station

Get the votes of

Convert into a pollard;