different between inquiry vs poll
inquiry
English
Alternative forms
- enquiry
Etymology
From Middle English enquery, from the Old French verb enquerre, from Latin inqu?r?. Later respelled to conform to the original Latin spelling, as opposed to the Old French spelling.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?kwa???i/, /??-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?kwa?(?)?i/, /??nkw??i/, /???-/
- Hyphenation: in?qui?ry
- Rhymes: -a??ri
Noun
inquiry (countable and uncountable, plural inquiries)
- The act of inquiring; a seeking of information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.
- Search for truth, information, or knowledge; examination of facts or principles; research; investigation
Derived terms
- line of inquiry
Usage notes
According to Fowler's Modern English Usage (1926), inquiry should be used in relation to a formal inquest, and enquiry to the act of questioning. Many (though not all) British writers maintain this distinction; the Oxford English Dictionary, in its entry not updated since 1900, lists inquiry and enquiry as equal alternatives, in that order. Some British dictionaries, such as Chambers 21st Century Dictionary [1], present the two spellings as interchangeable variants in the general sense, but prefer inquiry for the "formal inquest" sense. In Australian English, inquiry represents a formal inquest (such as a government investigation) while enquiry is used in the act of questioning (eg: the customer enquired about the status of his loan application). Both spellings are current in Canadian English, where enquiry is often associated with scholarly or intellectual research. (See Pam Peters, The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, p. 282.)
American English usually uses inquiry.
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “inquiry”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
inquiry From the web:
- what inquiry mean
- what inquiry based learning
- what inquiry means in spanish
- what inquiry letter
- what's inquiry notice
- what inquiry method
- what inquiry definition
- what inquiry science
poll
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English pol, polle ("scalp, pate"), probably from or else cognate with Middle Dutch pol, p?le, polle (“top, summit; head”), from Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“round object, head, top”), from Proto-Indo-European *bolno-, *b?wl- (“orb, round object, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”).
Akin to Scots pow (“head, crown, skalp, skull”), Saterland Frisian pol (“round, full, brimming”), Low German polle (“head, tree-top, bulb”), Danish puld (“crown of a hat”), Swedish dialectal pull (“head”). Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1625, from notion of "counting heads".
Alternative forms
- pol, pole
Pronunciation
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /p?l/
- (UK) IPA(key): /p??l/, /p??l/
- (US) IPA(key): /po?l/
- Homophones: pole, Pole
Noun
poll (plural polls)
- A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
- Synonyms: election, survey
- A formal election.
- All soldiers quartered in place are to remove […] and not to return till one day after the poll is ended.
- A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
- The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
- (now rare outside veterinary contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
- Synonym: scalp
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- […] the doctor, as if to hear better, had taken off his powdered wig, and sat there, looking very strange indeed with his own close-cropped black poll.
- 1908, O. Henry, A Tempered Wind
- And you might perceive the president and general manager, Mr. R. G. Atterbury, with his priceless polished poll, busy in the main office room dictating letters..
- (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
- The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
- The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
Derived terms
- go to the polls
- opinion poll
- polling
- straw poll
- deed poll
Related terms
- pollard
- polliwog
- tadpole
Translations
Verb
poll (third-person singular simple present polls, present participle polling, simple past and past participle polled)
- (transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
- (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
- (intransitive) To vote at an election.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaconsfield to this entry?)
- 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.
- 1717, Thomas Tickell, An Epistle from a Lady in England to a Gentleman at Avignon
- poll for points of faith his trusty vote
- To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
- to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass
- (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
- when he [Absalom] polled his head
- 1579-1603, Thomas North, Plutarch's Lives
- His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs.
- (transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
- To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
- to poll a tree
- (transitive, computing, communication) 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.
- (intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
- 2008, Joanne McEvoy, The politics of Northern Ireland (page 171)
- The election was a resounding defeat for Robert McCartney who polled badly in the six constituencies he contested and even lost his own Assembly seat in North Down.
- 2008, Joanne McEvoy, The politics of Northern Ireland (page 171)
- (obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
- To impose a tax upon.
- To pay as one's personal tax.
- the man that polled but twelve pence for his head
- To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
- (law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation.
- a polled deed
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)
Translations
Adjective
poll
- (of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.
- Poll Hereford
- Red Poll cows
- 1757, The monthly review, or, literary journal, volume 17, page 416:
- Sheep, that is, the Horned sort, and those without Horns, called Poll Sheep [...]
- 1960, Frank O'Loghlen, Frank H. Johnston, Cattle country: an illustrated survey of the Australian beef cattle industry, a complete directory of the studs, page 85:
- About 15000 cattle, comprising 10000 Hereford and Poll Hereford, 4000 Aberdeen Angus and 1000 Shorthorn and Poll Shorthorn, are grazed [...]
- 1970, The Pastoral review, volume 80, page 457:
- Otherwise, both horned and poll sheep continue to be bred from an inner stud.
References
Etymology 2
Perhaps a shortening of Polly, a common name for pet parrots.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p?l/
Noun
poll (plural polls)
- A pet parrot.
Etymology 3
From Ancient Greek ?????? (polloí, “the many, the masses”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?l/
Noun
poll (plural polls)
- (Britain, dated, Cambridge University) One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
See also
- gentleman's C
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?po?/
Etymology 1
From Old Occitan, from Latin pullus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”).
Noun
poll m (plural polls)
- chicken (bird)
Derived terms
- polla
- pollam
- pollet
- pollís
Related terms
- pollastre
Etymology 2
From Old Occitan, from Late Latin peduclus < peduculus, variant of Latin p?d?culus, from p?dis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pesd-.
Noun
poll m (plural polls)
- louse (insect)
Derived terms
- pollós
See also
- llémena
Further reading
- “poll” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
poll
- first-person singular present indicative of pollen
- imperative of pollen
German
Verb
poll
- singular imperative of pollen
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of pollen
Icelandic
Noun
poll
- indefinite accusative singular of pollur
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish poll (“hole”), from Old English p?l (compare English pool).
Pronunciation
- (Galway) IPA(key): /p??ul??/
Noun
poll m (genitive singular poill, nominative plural poill)
- hole
- storage pit; disposal pit; extraction pit
- pool, puddle; pond, sea
- burrow, lair
- dark, mean place (of prison)
- shaft, vent hole
- aperture
- (anatomy) orifice, cavity
- perforation
- (figuratively) leak
- pothole
Declension
Synonyms
- (pothole): linntreog
Derived terms
Verb
poll (present analytic pollann, future analytic pollfaidh, verbal noun polladh, past participle pollta)
- (transitive, intransitive) hole; puncture, pierce, bore, perforate (make a hole in)
Conjugation
Derived terms
- polltóir (“perforator”)
- uchtbhalla pollta (“machicolation”)
Mutation
References
Further reading
- "poll" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “poll”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Middle English
Noun
poll
- A head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which the hair (normally) grows
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse pollr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?l?/
Noun
poll m (definite singular pollen, indefinite plural pollar, definite plural pollane)
- a small branch of a fjord, often with a narrow inlet
Further reading
- “poll” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
Possibly borrowed from Old English p?l (“pool”). Or, from Late Latin *padulus, metathesis of paludis, palus (“marsh, swamp, bog”). See also Welsh pwll (“pool swamp”), Irish poll, Middle Breton poull.
Noun
poll m (genitive singular puill, plural puill)
- mud, mire
- pond, pool, bog
Derived terms
- poll-caca
Mutation
References
poll From the web:
- what pollen is high today
- what pollutes the air
- what pollen is out now
- what pollutants cause acid rain
- what pollutes the air the most
- what pollutants do cars emit
- what pollutants do electrostatic precipitators remove
- what pollutant does this image convey
you may also like
- inquiry vs poll
- poll vs suffrage
- appoint vs poll
- referendum vs poll
- fatting vs matting
- fasting vs fatting
- fatting vs fatling
- fatting vs ratting
- fatting vs tatting
- catting vs fatting
- fitting vs fatting
- natting vs fatting
- vatting vs fatting
- fatting vs gatting
- terms vs masting
- matting vs masting
- basting vs masting
- masting vs mashing
- masing vs masting
- masting vs lasting