| 单词 | poll |
| 释义 | Word Frequency poll(pəʊl) noun 1. the casting, recording, or counting of votes in an election; a voting 2. the result or quantity of such a voting a heavy poll 3. Also called: opinion poll a. a canvassing of a representative sample of a large group of people on some question in order to determine the general opinion of the group b. the results or record of such a canvassing 4. any counting or enumeration a poll of the number of men with long hair 5. short for poll tax 6. a list or enumeration of people, esp for taxation or voting purposes 7. the striking face of a hammer 8. the occipital or back part of the head of an animal verb (mainly tr) 9. to receive (a vote or quantity of votes) she polled 10 000 votes 10. to receive, take, or record the votes of we polled the whole town 11. to canvass (a person, group, area, etc) as part of a survey of opinion 12. mainly US to take the vote, verdict, opinion, etc, individually of each member (of a jury, conference, etc) 13. (sometimes intr) to cast (a vote) in an election 14. computing (in data transmission when several terminals share communications channels) to check each channel rapidly to establish which are free, or to call for data from each terminal in turn 15. to clip or shear 16. to remove or cut short the horns of (cattle) Word origin C13 (in the sense: a human head) and C17 (in the modern sense: a counting of heads,votes): from Middle Low German polle hair of the head, head, top of a tree; compare Swedish pull crown of the head |
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