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# poll

«poll» in Mova's school dictionary: **a survey in which many people are asked the same question…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a poll, polls; the polls); verb (poll, polls, polled, polling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A poll is a survey in which many people are asked the same question to find out what most of them think. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#m1)

2) The polls are an election, the time when people vote: «go to the polls». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#m2)

3) To poll people is to ask them questions in a survey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#m3)

4) (formal) The number of votes in an election. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#m4)

5) (old use) The head; a «poll tax» is a tax that every person must pay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and data lessons, children take a class poll (for example favourite fruit), then make a tally chart and bar chart. In the news, opinion polls show who might win an election. Phrases: «opinion poll», «take a poll», «exit poll», «polling station», «go to the polls».

### examples

- We took a poll to choose the class pet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#x1)
- The poll showed that most pupils like pizza best. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#x2)
- Grown-ups vote at a polling station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#x3)
- The country goes to the polls next month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#x4)
- The newspaper polled a thousand people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#x5)
- An exit poll asks people how they voted as they leave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#x6)
- Twelve of the twenty-five children voted for a hamster in the poll. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#x7)
- Its little brothers and sisters around the bed were flat-nosed imps with pointed ears, who made faces at one another, and scratched their polls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#x8)

### note

Noun and verb, past «polled». In maths, results of a poll can be shown as numbers, fractions or percentages: 12 out of 25 is 48 per cent. A poll asks some people, not everyone, so it can be wrong. Do not confuse with «pole» (a long stick) or «Pole» (a person from Poland).

### In the corpora

- [Polls are different: they are not selling, they are guessing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/12-adverts-slogans-and-polls/3/)
- [Some countries ban new polls in the last days before voting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/12-adverts-slogans-and-polls/15/)
- [Polls in Taiwan have shown most people want to keep things as they are, neither declaring full independence nor joining China.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/29-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions/18/)
- [Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners of their hair polled;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.694/)
- [Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1192/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «poll» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.