Polling vs Protract - What's the difference?
polling | protract |
The action of taking a poll.
(computing) A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral device to see if it has data to transfer.
To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.
*2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), ‘The Men Who Made England’, The Atlantic , Mar 2010:
*:Still, form these extraordinary pages you can learn that it's very bad to be burned alive on a windy day, because the breeze will keep flicking the flames away from you and thus protract the process.
To use a protractor.
(surveying) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer.
To extend; to protrude.
As verbs the difference between polling and protract
is that polling is while protract is to draw out; to extend, especially in duration.As a noun polling
is the action of taking a poll.polling
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protract
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(en verb)- to protract a decision or duty
- (Shakespeare)
- A cat can protract and retract its claws.