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Polling vs Pushing - What's the difference?

polling | pushing |

As verbs the difference between polling and pushing

is that polling is present participle of lang=en while pushing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between polling and pushing

is that polling is the action of taking a poll while pushing is the act by which something is pushed.

As an adjective pushing is

that pushes forward; pressing, driving.

polling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • The action of taking a poll.
  • (computing) A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral device to see if it has data to transfer.

    • pushing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Dealing illicit drugs, especially to minors.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That pushes forward; pressing, driving.
  • Aggressively assertive; pushy.
  • *1890 , (Oscar Wilde), (The Picture of Dorian Gray) , Ch.XV:
  • *:Mrs. Erlynne, a pushing nobody, with a delightful lisp and Venetian-red hair
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  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is pushed.

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