poll
noun
[ pəʊl ]
• the process of voting in an election.
• "the country went to the polls on March 10"
• a person's head.
• a hornless animal, especially one of a breed of hornless cattle.
poll
verb
• record the opinion or vote of.
• "over half of those polled do not believe the prime minister usually tells the truth"
• check the status of (a device), especially as part of a repeated cycle.
• "the network manager can also use the software to poll each Mac on the net"
• cut the horns off (an animal, especially a young cow).
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘head’): perhaps of Low German origin. The original sense was ‘head’, and hence ‘an individual person among a number’, from which developed the sense ‘number of people ascertained by counting of heads’ and then ‘counting of heads or of votes’ (17th century).
