Crossword clues for polling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poll \Poll\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Polled; p. pr. & vb. n. Polling.]
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To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop; to shear; as, to poll the head; to poll a tree.
When he [Absalom] pollled his head.
--2 Sam. xiv. 26.His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs.
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To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop; -- sometimes with off; as, 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.
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To extort from; to plunder; to strip. [Obs.]
Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise.
--Spenser. To impose a tax upon. [Obs.]
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To pay as one's personal tax.
The man that polled but twelve pence for his head.
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To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
Polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms.
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To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters; as, he polled a hundred votes more than his opponent.
And poll for points of faith his trusty vote.
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(Law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee? poll.
--Burrill.To poll a jury, to call upon each member of the jury to answer individually as to his concurrence in a verdict which has been rendered.
Polling \Poll"ing\, n. [See Poll the head.]
The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges.
Plunder, or extortion. [Obs.]
--E. Hall.-
The act of voting, or of registering a vote.
Polling booth, a temporary structure where the voting at an election is done; a polling place.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The action of taking a poll. 2 (context computing English) A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral device to see if it has data to transfer. vb. (present participle of poll English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Polling, or polled operation, in computer science, refers to actively sampling the status of an external device by a client program as a synchronous activity. Polling is most often used in terms of input/output , and is also referred to as polled or software-driven .
Usage examples of "polling".
There was a chance they might salvage something of the case but not if Polling had a tantrum.
So when Polling showed up here, not wearing any, no one would suspect him.
Taylor stared with fascination as Polling thrashed like a spine-cracked animal, spraying his blood on the floor and walls.
Lon Sellitto was the case officer but an incident like this needed a captain on board and Polling had volunteered for the job.
Promoted to captain after that very public collar, Polling went through one of those embarrassing midlife changes—giving up blue jeans and Sears suits for Brooks Brothers (today he wore navy-blue Calvin Klein casual)—and began his dogged climb toward a plush corner office high in One Police Plaza.
Rhyme hadn’t had any contact with Polling over the past few years—not since the cop-killer case in which Rhyme had been hurt.
It had been Polling who’d run the case and eventually collared Dan Shepherd.
Sellitto was a bulldog and Polling was a psycho—though Dellray could handle them.
Their team was back in Rhyme’s bedroom—all except Polling and Haumann.
Meaning Sellitto and Polling, after she’d told them that Rhyme had agreed to remain on the case for another day.
You and Jerry, me, Cooper, Haumann, Polling, we’re all on his list, betcha.
Rhyme tried to look but Polling kept his hands jammed into his pockets.
If Polling was the unsub he’d have to wear the mask of course—because one of the vics might see him later.
They'd be practicing the fine art of distancing and when the Beta-cams rolled their press conferences would be peppered with words likedelegated andassigned andtaking the advice of and they'd be fast to glance at Polling when it came time to field the hardball questions.
Promoted to captain after that very public collar, Polling went through one of those embarrassing midlife changes-giving up blue jeans and Sears suits for Brooks Brothers (today he wore navy-blue Calvin Klein casual)-and began his dogged climb toward a plush corner office high in One Police Plaza.