Ball vs Poll - What's the difference?
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A solid or hollow sphere, or part thereof.
# A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
# (label) A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, etc.
## A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
# A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body.
# (label) The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
# The globe; the earthly sphere.
#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
#* 1717 , (Alexander Pope), ""
# (label) The set of points in a metric space lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point; specifically, the homologue of the disk in a Euclidean space of any number of dimensions.
# The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point; the analogue of the disk in a Euclidean space.
# An object, generally spherical, used for playing games.
#* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=
, passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
#* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 2, author=Aled Williams, work=BBC Sport Wales
, title= (label) The use of a round or ellipsoidal object.
# Any simple game involving a ball.
# (label) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
# (label) An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
# (label) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
# (label) A pass; a kick of the football towards a teammate.
#* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Chris Whyatt, work=BBC
, title= A testicle.
# Nonsense.
# Courage.
A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
(label) To form or wind into a ball.
(label) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
To have sexual intercourse with.
(label) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
To be hip or cool.
(label) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This is heard almost any time an opposition player is tackled, without regard to whether the rules about "prior opportunity" to dispose of the ball are fulfilled.
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.
As a noun ball
is .As a proper noun poll is
or poll can be .ball
English
(wikipedia ball)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Move round the dark terrestrial ball .
- Thus, if eternal Justice rules the ball , / Thus shall your wives, and thus your children fall;
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Swansea 2-0 Stoke, passage=Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic.}}
Chelsea 1-0 Bolton, passage=After Essien's poor attempt flew into the stands, Rodrigo Moreno - Bolton's on-loan winger from Benfica who was making his full Premier League debut - nearly exposed the Blues with a lovely ball for Johan Elmander, but it just skipped away from his team-mate's toes. }}
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Synonyms
* sphere * globe * (testicle) See * (courage) chutzpah, guts, nerveDerived terms
(solid or hollow sphere) {{der3, ball and chain , ball and socket , ball-barrow , ball bearing/ball-bearing , ball boy/ballboyball-boy , ball-cartridge , ballclay , ballcock , ball-flower , ball-game , ball-girl , ball lightning , ball machine , ball mill , ball of fire , ball of the foot , ball of the thumb , ballpark , ball-player , ballpoint , ball-proof , ball race , ball up , bandy-ball , baseball , basketball , beachball/beach ball , best-ball , billiard ball , blackball , blowball , blueball , brandy-ball , broomball , buckyball , butterball , button-ball , cannonball , coalball , cornball , cricket ball , croquet ball , crystal ball , cue ball , dust-ball , eight ball/eight-ball , eyeball , fastball , fire-ball , fishball , football , four ball , freeball , furball , fuzz-ball , game ball , get the ball rolling , goalball , golf ball , goofball , greaseball , hair-ball , half-ball , hand-ball , hardball , heel-ball , highball , holding the ball , jump ball , keep the ball rolling , kickball , korfball , matzo ball , meatball , medicine ball , , mothball , netball , no ball , object ball , oddball , on the ball , paintball , patball , pinball , ping-pong ball , pithball , play ball , puffball , punchball , push-ball , racquetball , rollerball , root-ball , rugby ball , scuzzball , silver ball , skittle-ball , sleazeball , slimeball , smoke-ball , snooker ball , snowball , soccer ball , softball , speedball , spot the ball , stink ball , stoolball , table-tennis ball , tea ball , tennis ball , tchoukball , the ball is in your court , through ball , time-ball , too many balls in the air , trackball, trackerball , trap-ball , volleyball , washball}} (testicle) {{der3, ball-breaker , ball-breaking , ball-buster , ball-busting , balls-aching , balls up (verb) , balls-up (noun) , ballsy , have someone by the balls , screwball}}Verb
(en verb)- to ball cotton
- The horse balls'''; the snow '''balls .
Synonyms
* (vulgar) bonk, fuck, lay, screw, shag (British)Interjection
(en interjection)- 2007: A good tackle (and some bad ones) will bring a cry of "Ball!" from the crowd – a plea for a holding the ball free kick. — AFL Sydney Swans Rules Zone [http://www.afl.com.au/FanZone/Rules/tabid/7892/Default.aspx]
Etymology 2
(m).Synonyms
* (very enjoyable time) blast, whale of a timeDerived terms
{{der3, ball-dress , ballgown , ballroom , have a ball , hunt ball , masked ball , open the ball}}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.