different between woll vs poll
woll
English
Etymology
From Middle English wollen, a variant of Middle English wullen, willen, from Old English wyllan, willan. More at will.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /w?l/
Verb
woll
- Obsolete form of will.
- Chaucer
- I love no man in no gise, / That woll me reprove or chastise.
- Chaucer
References
- woll in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v?l/
Adverb
woll
- (regional, colloquial, otherwise obsolete) Alternative form of wohl.
Derived terms
- jawoll
Interjection
woll
- (regional, Sauerland, occasionally elsewhere in NRW) right?, isn't it?
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
woll
- Alternative form of wolle
Etymology 2
Verb
woll
- first-person singular present indicative of wollen
woll From the web:
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- what will happen in 2022
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:
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- what pollutes the air the most
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