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poll

(pōl)

1. The casting and registering of votes in an election.

2. The number of votes cast or recorded.

3. polls

a. The places where votes are cast and registered during an election, considered as a group: The polls close in this state at 8:00.

b. A place where votes are cast and registered: I went to the polls before work to cast a vote.

4. A survey of the public or of a sample of public opinion to acquire information.

5. The head, especially the top of the head where hair grows.

6. The blunt or broad end of a tool such as a hammer or axe.

v. polled, poll·ing, polls

v.tr.

1. To receive (a given number of votes).

2. To receive or record the votes of: polling a jury.

3. To cast (a vote or ballot).

4. To question in a survey; canvass.

5. To cut off or trim (hair, horns, or wool, for example); clip.

6. To trim or cut off the hair, wool, branches, or horns of: polled the sheep; polled the trees.

v.intr.

To vote at the polls in an election.

[Middle English pol, head, from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch.]

poll′er n.

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polling

(ˈpəʊlɪŋ)

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy)

a. the casting or registering of votes at an election

b. (as modifier): polling day.

2. the conducting of a public opinion poll

3. (Computer Science) computing the automatic interrogation of terminals by a central controlling machine to determine if they are ready to receive or transmit messages

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Translations

kiertokysely

électioninvitation à émettrescrutation

anketiranje

interrogazione ciclica votazione

polling

[ˈpəʊlɪŋ]

A. N → votación f
polling will be on Thursday → las elecciones se celebrarán el jueves, se votará el jueves
polling has been heavy → ha votado un elevado porcentaje de los electores

B. CPD polling booth N → cabina f electoral
polling day N → día m de las elecciones
polling place N (US) = polling station polling station N → centro m electoral

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polling

[ˈpəʊlɪŋ] n

(British) (= voting) → scrutin m

(= opinion surveying) → sondages mpl
Their polling indicates that → Leurs sondages indiquent que ...polling booth n (British) → isoloir mpolling day n (British) → jour m des électionspolling place (US) n → bureau m de votepolling station n (British) → bureau m de votepoll rating n → cote f de popularité

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polling

→ Stimmabgabe f, → Wahl f; polling will be on Thursday → die Wahl ist am Donnerstag; polling has been heavy → die Wahlbeteiligung war (sehr) hoch or stark; the polling was extremely low → die Wahlbeteiligung war äußerst gering

(Comput, Internet) → Polling nt

polling

polling booth

n → Wahlkabine f, → Wahlzelle f

polling card

n → Wahlausweis m

polling day

n (esp Brit) → Wahltag m

polling station

n (Brit) → Wahllokal nt

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polling

[ˈpəʊlɪŋ] n

a. (Brit) (Pol) → votazioni fpl
polling has been heavy → c'è stata un'alta percentuale di votanti

b. (Comput) → interrogazione f ciclica, polling m

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During the whole time of the polling, the town was in a perpetual fever of excitement.

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For certainly grapes (as the Scripture saith) will not be gathered of thorns or thistles; either can justice yield her fruit with sweetness, amongst the briars and brambles of catching and polling clerks, and ministers.

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They seemed to our poor wits, and according to their own accounts, to be constantly polling people by tens of thousands, yet never bringing their candidates in for anything.

There had been a quantity of printing, and promising, and proxying, and polling, and it appeared to have imparted great liveliness to all concerned, except the pensioners--who were not elected yet.

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A month or two later Jurgis had another interview with this same man, who told him where to go to "register." And then finally, when election day came, the packing houses posted a notice that men who desired to vote might remain away until nine that morning, and the same night watchman took Jurgis and the rest of his flock into the back room of a saloon, and showed each of them where and how to mark a ballot, and then gave each two dollars, and took them to the polling place, where there was a policeman on duty especially to see that they got through all right.

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I will fling a hint at it from the stump on the polling day.

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A total of 1,897 polling stations have been notified by the ECP including 1,039 combined, 366 female and 482 male polling stations in all merged districts of FATA.

313 candidates contesting elections on 16 merged districts PA seats of erstwhile FATA

PESHAWAR/DI KHAN -- Most polling stations, which were observed ahead of Saturday's elections in the newly-merged tribal districts (NMTDs), lack ramps while a few polling stations lack critical infrastructures such as water and washrooms, notes a report prepared by an independent election observer.

Many NMD polling stations lack ramps

Confirmation of the poll method design and of the verification method; only if there is a clear verification method for the polling procedure (such as the casting and counting of ballots), can there be opinion poll fairness.

'Opinion poll fairness' will decide life and death of Taiwan's 'Democratic Progressive Party'

The distribution of votes is not even across different polling stations.

India exit polls: Structured questionnaire is the key

Summary: New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI): Election Commission of India (EC) has declared "void", the polls held on May 6 at polling station no-116 in Barrackpur parliamentary constituency and polling station no-110 in Arambag parliamentary constituency of West Bengal.

EC orders re-polling at two polling stations in West Bengal on May 12

ISLAMABAD -- People in Central Kashmir rejected the second phase of the election in Indian occupied Kashmir, drama enacted by India on Thursday as 90 polling booths saw no voting in the polling held for the Srinagar constituency of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament.