Vote vs Opinion - What's the difference?
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A formalized choice on matters of administration or other democratic activities.
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An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot.
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*:The freeman casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
(label) An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.
:(Massinger)
To cast a vote; to assert a formalised choice in an election.
* F. W. Robertson
A belief that a person has formed about a topic or issue.
The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
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* South
(obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
* 1597 , , V. iv. 47:
* Milton
(obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
* 1590 , , V. i. 5:
The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
(European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible
(archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
* 1658', But if (as some '''opinion ) King ''Ahasuerus'' were ''Artaxerxes Mnemon'' [...], our magnified ''Cyrus'' was his second Brother — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Graden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 166)
As a verb vote
is .As a noun opinion is
opinion.vote
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* donkey vote * conscience vote * free vote * get out the vote * informal vote * subvote * vote mob * whipped voteVerb
(vot)- The depository may vote shares on behalf of investors who have not submitted instruction to the bank.
- To vote' on large principles, to ' vote honestly, requires a great amount of information.
Derived terms
* voter * vote in * vote out * vote with one's feetSee also
* elect * nominateAnagrams
* ----opinion
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(en noun)- I would like to know your opinions on the new systems.
- In my opinion , white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.
- Every man is a fool in some man's opinion .
- Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. -
- I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
- Friendship gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.
- Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion .
- This gained Agricola much opinion , who enterprises.
- Your reasons at / dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant / without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious / without impudency, learned without opinion , and / strange without heresy.