poll
a survey or opinion questionnaire
TRANSLATION
poll = die Befragung, die Umfrage --- GOOGLE INDEX poll: approximately 300,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
POLLS have shown that a wide majority of Americans oppose giving Obama fast track authority.
(Wall Street Journal)
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Among Catholics, 86 percent viewed the pope favorably, compared with 64 percent of Americans overall, the POLL found.
(Reuters news service)
(Wall Street Journal)
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Among Catholics, 86 percent viewed the pope favorably, compared with 64 percent of Americans overall, the POLL found.
(Reuters news service)
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poll
noun
- a survey of the public
(American Heritage Dictionary)
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Simply put a poll, short for opinion poll, is a study of a group’s opinion on a subject, in which people are questioned and their answers examined.
The term stems from the Middle English "polle," meaning the hair on the head or simply head. The sense was eventually expanded to mean a person or individual and in the mid 17th century it took on the meaning of a "collection of votes," which derives from the notion of counting heads.
The expression "poll tax," literally a head tax, is a tax that a government requires citizens to pay before they can vote. This was a controversial practice in the United States in the late 19th century that was instituted as a way to keep especially black minorities from voting.
Poll is sometimes still used as a synonym for a person's head or the part of the head on which the hair grows (the scalp). If you really want to impress friends and colleagues or swot up for a crossword puzzle, a rather obscure sense of poll is a hornless animal, particularly a breed of hornless cattle.
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SYNONYMS
canvass, questionnaire, sampling, survey
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"According to the polls, many Scots want more independence for Scotland."
noun
- a survey of the public
(American Heritage Dictionary)
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Simply put a poll, short for opinion poll, is a study of a group’s opinion on a subject, in which people are questioned and their answers examined.
The term stems from the Middle English "polle," meaning the hair on the head or simply head. The sense was eventually expanded to mean a person or individual and in the mid 17th century it took on the meaning of a "collection of votes," which derives from the notion of counting heads.
The expression "poll tax," literally a head tax, is a tax that a government requires citizens to pay before they can vote. This was a controversial practice in the United States in the late 19th century that was instituted as a way to keep especially black minorities from voting.
Poll is sometimes still used as a synonym for a person's head or the part of the head on which the hair grows (the scalp). If you really want to impress friends and colleagues or swot up for a crossword puzzle, a rather obscure sense of poll is a hornless animal, particularly a breed of hornless cattle.
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SYNONYMS
canvass, questionnaire, sampling, survey
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"According to the polls, many Scots want more independence for Scotland."
