Appoint vs Poll - What's the difference?
appoint | poll |
(obsolete) To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
* 1611 , (King James Version) Proverbs 8.29
To fix the time and place of a meeting (by a decree, order, command etc.)
* 8 November 2014 , Ivan Hewett in The Telegraph'', ''
*:We have to wait until they're ready to receive us, and make sure we turn up at the appointed time.
* 1820 , The Edinburgh Annual Register
*:His Royal Highness called to pay his respects to her Majesty ; but, from the unexpected nature of his visit, her Majesty was not in a state then to receive him ; but soon after sent a letter to Prince Leopold, to appoint one o'clock this day for an interview.
* 1611 , (King James Version) 2 Samuel 15.15
To give a job or a role to somebody
* 3 November 2014 , Fredric U. Dicker in the (New York Post), ''
*:Neal Kwatra, appointed by Cuomo to be the state Democratic Party's chief campaign strategist, was identified by two key Democratic insiders
* 1611 , (King James Version) Numbers 4.19
To furnish completely; to provide with all the equipment necessary; to equip or fit out.
* 2009 , Donald Olson, Germany for Dummies
*:The hotel is beautifully designed and beautifully appointed in a classic, modern style that manages to be both serene and luxurious at the same time.
(archaic, transitive, legal) To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance;—said of an estate already conveyed.
:(Alexander Mansfield Burrill)
To point at by way of censure or commendation; to arraign.
* Milton
An election or a survey of a particular group of people.
* Blackstone
A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of individuals, especially electors.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
(usually, as plural) A place where voters cast ballots.
Hair
* 1883 ,
The head, especially its top part.
* 1908 ,
The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
A fish, the pollard or European chub.
To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
To vote at an election.
To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
* Tickell
To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
* Chapman
To cut the hair of (a creature).
* Bible, 2 Sam. xiv. 26
* Sir T. North
To remove the horns of (an animal).
To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
(transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
(with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
* 2008 , Joanne McEvoy, The politics of Northern Ireland (page 171)
(obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
* Spenser
To impose a tax upon.
To pay as one's personal tax.
* Dryden
To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
* Milton
(legal) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation.
(of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.
* 1757 , The monthly review, or, literary journal , volume 17, page 416:
* 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:
* 1970 , The Pastoral review , volume 80, page 457:
(UK, dated, Cambridge University) One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
In transitive terms the difference between appoint and poll
is that appoint is to furnish completely; to provide with all the equipment necessary; to equip or fit out while poll is to remove the horns of (an animal).As verbs the difference between appoint and poll
is that appoint is to fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out while poll is to take, record the votes of (an electorate).As a noun poll is
an election or a survey of a particular group of people.As an adjective poll is
bred without horns, and thus hornless.As a proper noun Poll is
{{given name|female|diminutive=Mary}}.appoint
English
Verb
(en verb)- When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Art on demand makes emperors of us all
- Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint .
Cuomo appointed 'vote or else' strategist
- Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service.
- Appoint not heavenly disposition.
Derived terms
* appointee * appointer * appointive * appointment * self-appointedExternal links
* *poll
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pol, polle . Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1625, from notion of "counting heads".Alternative forms
* pol, poleNoun
(en noun)- The student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria.
- All soldiers quartered in place are to remove and not to return till one day after the poll is ended.
- We are the greater poll , and in true fear / They gave us our demands.
- The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll .
- The polls close at 8 p.m.
- ...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 .
- 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..
Synonyms
* (election or survey) election, survey * (hair) hairDerived terms
* opinion poll * polling * rolly polly * straw poll * tadpoleVerb
(en verb)- (Beaconsfield)
- He polled a hundred votes more than his opponent.
- poll for points of faith his trusty vote
- to poll''' the hair; to '''poll''' wool; to '''poll grass
- Who, as he polled' off his dart's head, so sure he had decreed / That all the counsels of their war he would ' poll off like it.
- when he [Absalom] polled his head
- His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs.
- to poll a tree
- The network hub polled the department's computers to determine which ones could still respond.
- 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.
- which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise
- the man that polled but twelve pence for his head
- polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms
- a polled deed
- (Burrill)
Adjective
(head)- Poll Hereford
- Red Poll cows
- Sheep, that is, the Horned sort, and those without Horns, called Poll Sheep [...]
- About 15000 cattle, comprising 10000 Hereford and Poll' Hereford, 4000 Aberdeen Angus and 1000 Shorthorn and ' Poll Shorthorn, are grazed [...]
- Otherwise, both horned and poll sheep continue to be bred from an inner stud.
