Pole vs Poll - What's the difference?

Poll is a alternative form of pole.

In transitive terms the difference between pole and poll

is that pole is to induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles while poll is to remove the horns of (an animal).

In obsolete terms the difference between pole and poll

is that pole is the firmament; the sky while poll is to extort from; to plunder; to strip.

As nouns the difference between pole and poll

is that pole is originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes while poll is an election or a survey of a particular group of people.

As verbs the difference between pole and poll

is that pole is to propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole while poll is to take, record the votes of (an electorate).

As an adjective poll is

bred without horns, and thus hornless.

As a proper noun Poll is

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pole

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) pole, pal, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.

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(angling) A type of basic fishing rod.

A long fiberglass sports implement used for pole-vaulting.

(slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.

(historical) A unit of length, equal to a perch (¼ chain or 5½ yards).

(auto racing) Pole position.

(analysis) a singularity that behaves like

\frac{1}{z^n}

z = 0

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* (analysis) root, zero

Derived terms

(terms derived from pole) * flagpole * maypole * poleaxe * pole vault

Verb

(pol)

To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.

Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.

To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.

He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.

To furnish with poles for support.

to pole beans or hops

To convey on poles.

to pole hay into a barn

To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) pole, .

Noun

(en noun)

Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.

A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).

(geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.

(electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.

(complex analysis) For a meromorphic function

f(z)

: a point

a

for which

f(z) \rightarrow \infty

z \rightarrow a

The function $f(z) = \frac{1}{z-3}$ has a single pole at $z = 3$ .

(obsolete) The firmament; the sky.

* Milton

shoots against the dusky pole

Antonyms

* (complex analysis) zero

Derived terms

* polar * polarity * dipole * monopole * north pole * south pole * poles apart * polestar, pole star * pole vault

Verb

(pol)

To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.

Anagrams

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poll

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) pol, polle . Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1625, from notion of "counting heads".

Alternative forms

* pol, pole

Noun

(en noun)

An election or a survey of a particular group of people.

The student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria.

* Blackstone

All soldiers quartered in place are to remove and not to return till one day after the poll is ended.

A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of individuals, especially electors.

* Shakespeare

We are the greater poll , and in true fear / They gave us our demands.

* Shakespeare

The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll .

(usually, as plural) A place where voters cast ballots.

The polls close at 8 p.m.

Hair

* 1883 ,

...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 .

The head, especially its top part.

* 1908 ,

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..

The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.

A fish, the pollard or European chub.

Synonyms

* (election or survey) election, survey * (hair) hair

Derived terms

* opinion poll * polling * rolly polly * straw poll * tadpole

Verb

(en verb)

To take, record the votes of (an electorate).

To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).

To vote at an election.

(Beaconsfield)

To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.

He polled a hundred votes more than his opponent.

* Tickell

poll for points of faith his trusty vote

To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.

to poll''' the hair; to '''poll''' wool; to '''poll grass

* Chapman

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.

To cut the hair of (a creature).

* Bible, 2 Sam. xiv. 26

when he [Absalom] polled his head

* Sir T. North

His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs.

To remove the horns of (an animal).

To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.

to poll a tree

(transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).

The network hub polled the department's computers to determine which ones could still respond.

(with adverb) To be judged in a poll.

* 2008 , Joanne McEvoy, The politics of Northern Ireland (page 171)

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.

(obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.

* Spenser

which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise

To impose a tax upon.

To pay as one's personal tax.

* Dryden

the man that polled but twelve pence for his head

To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.

* Milton

polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms

(legal) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation.

a polled deed

(Burrill)

Adjective

(head)

(of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.

Poll Hereford

Red Poll cows

* 1757 , The monthly review, or, literary journal , volume 17, page 416:

Sheep, that is, the Horned sort, and those without Horns, called Poll Sheep [...]

* 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:

About 15000 cattle, comprising 10000 Hereford and Poll' Hereford, 4000 Aberdeen Angus and 1000 Shorthorn and ' Poll Shorthorn, are grazed [...]

* 1970 , The Pastoral review , volume 80, page 457:

Otherwise, both horned and poll sheep continue to be bred from an inner stud.

Etymology 2

Perhaps a shortening of (Polly), a common name for pet parrots.

Noun

(en noun)

A pet parrot.

Etymology 3

From (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

(UK, dated, Cambridge University) One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.

References

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