Poll vs. Ping
Pollnoun
A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
Pingnoun
A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
‘My car used to make an odd ping, but after the last oil change it went away.’;
Pollnoun
A formal election.
‘The student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria.’;
Pingnoun
(submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
‘The submarine sent out a ping and got an echo from a battleship.’;
Pollnoun
A polling place
‘The polls close at 8 p.m.’;
Pingnoun
(networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
‘The network is overloaded from all the pings going out.’;
Pollnoun
The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
Pingnoun
An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
‘I sent a ping to the insurance company to see if they received our claim.’;
Pollnoun
(in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
Pingnoun
(networking) Latency.
Pollnoun
The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
Pingnoun
(WMF jargon) A notification.
Pollnoun
The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
Pingverb
To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
‘My car was pinging until my last oil change.’;
Pollnoun
A pet parrot.
Pingverb
(submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
Pollnoun
One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
Pingverb
(networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
‘I'm pinging their server.’; ‘The server pings its affiliates periodically.’;
Pollverb
(transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
Pingverb
(networking) To send a network packet to another host and receive an acknowledgement in return.
‘I can't ping their server: perhaps it's been switched off.’;
Pollverb
(transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
Pingverb
To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
‘I'll ping the insurance company again to see if they've received our claim.’;
Pollverb
(intransitive) To vote at an election.
Pingverb
(colloquial) To flick.
‘I pinged the crumb off the table with my finger.’;
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.’;
Pingverb
To bounce.
‘The ball pinged off the wall and came hurtling back.’;
Pollverb
To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
‘to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass’;
Pingverb
To cause something to bounce.
Pollverb
(transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
Pingverb
To call out audibly.
Pollverb
(transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
Pingverb
(WMF jargon) To send a notification to (another user) when commenting on a public page.
Pollverb
To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
‘to poll a tree’;
Pingnoun
The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.
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.’;
Pingverb
To make the sound called ping.
Pollverb
To be judged in a poll.
Pingnoun
a river in western Thailand; a major tributary of the Chao Phraya
Pollverb
(obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
Pingnoun
a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)
Pollverb
To impose a tax upon.
Pingverb
hit with a pinging noise;
‘The bugs pinged the lamp shade’;
Pollverb
To pay as one's personal tax.
Pingverb
sound like a car engine that is firing too early;
‘the car pinged when I put in low-octane gasoline’; ‘The car pinked when the ignition was too far retarded’;
Pollverb
To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
Pingverb
make a short high-pitched sound;
‘the bullet pinged when they struck the car’;
Pollverb
(legal) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation.
‘a polled deed’;
Pingverb
contact, usually in order to remind of something;
‘I'll ping my accountant--April 15 is nearing’;
Polladjective
(of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.
‘Poll Hereford’; ‘Red Poll cows’;
Pingverb
send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active;
‘ping your machine in the office’;
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’;
