poll
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 →
2) The polls are an election, the time when people vote: «go to the polls». tree →
3) To poll people is to ask them questions in a survey. tree →
4) (formal) The number of votes in an election. tree →
5) (old use) The head; a «poll tax» is a tax that every person must pay. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Counting heads in the census showed that each person counts. Priests in Ezekiel's vision were told only to poll their heads, neither shaving nor letting hair grow long, and some nations were marked by hair polled at the corners. Interpretation: The rabbis noted that the half-shekel was given so that people were counted by coins and not directly. The rules on priests' hair are read as a sign of order and dignity in the Temple service. In the primary 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
- thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll; after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them — the shekel is twenty gerahs. (Torah NUM.3.47, JPS 1917) tree →
- 'Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, by their polls; (Torah NUM.1.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners of their hair polled; (Prophets JER.25.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. (Prophets EZK.44.20, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand. (Writings 1CH.23.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- We took a poll to choose the class pet. tree →
- The poll showed that most pupils like pizza best. tree →
- Grown-ups vote at a polling station. tree →
- The country goes to the polls next month. tree →
- The newspaper polled a thousand people. tree →
- An exit poll asks people how they voted as they leave. tree →
- Twelve of the twenty-five children voted for a hamster in the poll. tree →
- 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 →
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
- Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners of their hair polled;
- Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
- Polls are different: they are not selling, they are guessing.
- Some countries ban new polls in the last days before voting.
- Polls in Taiwan have shown most people want to keep things as they are, neither declaring full independence nor joining China.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «poll» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.