Race vs Poll - What's the difference?
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A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Several horses run in a horse race , and the first one to reach the finishing post wins
* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
A progressive movement toward a goal.
A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel.
Swift progress; rapid course; a running.
* Francis Bacon
Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
* Milton
Travels, runs, or journeys. (rfex)
The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.
To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
To compete against in such a race.
To move or drive at high speed.
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* 1891 (December) (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Man with the Twisted Lip :
A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common heritage or characteristics:
# A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
#* 1913', Martin Van Buren Knox, ''The religious life of the Anglo-Saxon '''race
# A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
# (controversial usage) One of the categories from the many subcategorizations of the human species. See Wikipedia's article on .
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# A large group of sentient beings distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage .
#* 1898 , Herman Isidore Stern, The gods of our fathers: a study of Saxon mythology , page 15)
(biology) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; (an informal term for) a subspecies.
A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) A category or species of something that has emerged or evolved from an older one (with an implied parallel to animal breeding or evolutionary science).
Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavour.
* Shakespeare
* Massinger
Characteristic quality or disposition.
* Shakespeare
* Sir W. Temple
A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
* 1842 , Gibbons Merle, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper's Manual , page 433:
English terms with multiple etymologies
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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 nouns the difference between race and poll
is that race is a contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective several horses run in a horse race , and the first one to reach the finishing post wins or race can be a group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common heritage or characteristics: or race can be a rhizome or root, especially of ginger while poll is an election or a survey of a particular group of people or poll can be a pet parrot or poll can be (uk|dated|cambridge university) one who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.As verbs the difference between race and poll
is that race is to take part in a race (in the sense of a contest) while poll is to take, record the votes of (an electorate).As an adjective poll is
(of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) bred without horns, and thus hornless.race
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , (etyl) and (etyl) (m).Noun
(racing)- The race around the park was won by Johnny, who ran faster than the others.
- We had a race to see who could finish the book the quickest.
- After days of intensifying pressure from runners, politicians and the general public to call off the New York City Marathon in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, city officials and the event’s organizers decided Friday afternoon to cancel the race .
- The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of any beasts.
- My race' of glory run, and ' race of shame.
Derived terms
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- "My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built."
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), of uncertain origin. According to philologist Gianfranco Contini,Devoto, Giacomo, Avviamento all'etimologia italiana , Mondadori. the Italian word comes from (etyl) (m) . Some authorities suggest derivation from (etyl) (m), (m), from earlier (m), . This, however, is difficult to support, since Italian (m) predates the Spanish word.Diez, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der romanischen Sprachen, "Razza." Another possible source is (etyl) . A fourth possibility is that the Italian razza'' derives from (etyl) ratio through an unattested intermediate form *''razzo .Noun
(wikipedia race)- Race was a significant issue during apartheid in South Africa.
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- The Native Americans colonized the New World in several waves from Asia, and thus they are considered part of the same Mongoloid race .
- A treaty was concluded between the race''' of elves and the '''race of men.
- There are two distinct races of gods known to Norse mythology[.]
- For do but note a wild and wanton herd, / Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, / Fetching mad bounds.
- The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of entrepreneur.
- Recent developments in artificial intelligence has brought about a new race of robots that can perform household chores without supervision.
- a race of heaven
- Is it [the wine] of the right race ?
- And now I give my sensual race the rein.
- Some great race of fancy or judgment.
Synonyms
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(Terms derived from the noun "race") * * * * * *Etymology 3
From (etyl), from (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)- On the third day after this second boiling, pour all the syrup into a pan, put the races of ginger with it, and boil it up until the syrup adheres to the spoon.
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* '' Diez, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der romanischen Sprachen, "Razza." * Notes: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.
