[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/poll/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [P](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/p/) / poll # poll noun (a poll, polls; the polls); verb (poll, polls, polled, polling) «poll» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 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://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#m3) 4. (formal) The number of votes in an election. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#m5) ### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#x1) - The poll showed that most pupils like pizza best. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#x2) - Grown-ups vote at a polling station. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#x3) - The country goes to the polls next month. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#x4) - The newspaper polled a thousand people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/#x5) - An exit poll asks people how they voted as they leave. [tree →](https://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://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://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 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. ### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/poll/#x1) - '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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/poll/#x2) - Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners of their hair polled; (Prophets JER.25.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/poll/#x3) - 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/poll/#x4) - 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/poll/#x5) ### 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). ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «poll» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poll/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«poll» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/poll.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «poll» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/poll/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«poll» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/poll.html) on Mova free.