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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polly \Pol"ly\, n. A woman's name; also, a popular name for a parrot.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, a rhyming collateral form of Molly, pet form of Mary.
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Polly is a nickname for Mary, and is derived from another nickname for Mary, Molly. It is sometimes used as a name in its own right.
Polly, sometimes called Polly Wright in spin-off material, is a fictional character played by Anneke Wills in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A young woman from the year 1966, she was a companion of the First and Second Doctors and a regular in the programme from 1966 to 1967. Polly appeared in 9 stories (36 episodes). The only serial featuring Polly which is currently complete in the BBC archive is her first, The War Machines.
"Polly" is a song by American grunge band Nirvana. It is the sixth song on their 1991 album, Nevermind.
Polly is a chick lit novel by Freya North about a young Englishwoman—the eponymous Polly.
As a teacher, Polly takes part in an exchange scheme that brings her to Vermont for a year. There, she fits in quite nicely and starts an affair with one of her male colleagues although she has left a boyfriend behind in London. In the end they are able to sort out their differences and make up.
Polly was a robot created at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Ian Horswill for his PhD and published in 1993 as a technical report.
Polly was the first mobile robot to move at animal-like speeds (1m per second) using computer vision for its navigation. It was an example of behavior based robotics. Horswill's PhD supervisors were Rodney Brooks and Lynn Andrea Stein. For a few years Polly gave tours of the AI laboratory's seventh floor, using canned speech to point out landmarks such as Anita Flynn's office. When someone approached Polly, it would introduce itself and offer a tour, asking them to answer by waving their foot.
The "Polly algorithm" is a way to navigate in a cluttered space using very low resolution vision to find uncluttered areas to move forward into, assuming that the pixels at the bottom of the frame (the closest to the robot) show an example of an uncluttered area. Since this could be done 60 times a second, the algorithm only needed to discriminate three categories: telling the robot at each instant to go straight, towards the right or towards the left.
Polly was built from minimalist machinery and runs on a hardware platform that could be duplicated for less than $10,000. The machine was intended to show that very simple visual machinery can be used to solve real tasks in unmodified environments.
Polly is a musical television movie that originally aired in November 1989 on NBC. Adapted from the book Pollyanna, Polly was directed and choreographed by Debbie Allen and stars Keshia Knight Pulliam and Phylicia Rashad. It also featured the final performance of actress Butterfly McQueen.
Polly is a series of peanut-based snacks made by KiMs Norge, a subsidiary of the Orkla Group, sold throughout Norway. In addition to the traditional peanut products, other producs include cashewnuts, chilinuts in addition to a number of mixed producs including various nuts and raisins.
Originally Polly AS was a Skien-based company that eventually was bought by Sætre. In 1991 the Sætre corporation was bought by Orkla and two years later the production was moved to the KiMs plant at Skreia.
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Polly: A Novel is a first novel by Amy Bryant, published in 2006 by Harper Perennial (ISBN 9780060898045).
It is about a young girl in the 1980s hard core punk scene in Washington DC. Polly tries to sort out her life with her dysfunctional family and her complicated relationships.
Polly is a female given name.
Polly may also refer to:
Polly, sometimes mislabeled as Pretty Polly, is a song by British rock group The Kinks. It was released as the B-side of their 1968 single " Wonderboy". "Wonderboy" peaked at number 36 on the UK Singles Charts, becoming the first major Kinks single since 1964 to be a relative commercial failure. It also peaked at number six in The Netherlands.
"Polly" later appeared as a bonus track on the 1998 and 2004 CD reissues of Something Else by The Kinks.
Polly is a ballad opera with text by John Gay and music by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is a sequel to Gay's The Beggar's Opera. Due to censorship, the opera was not performed in Gay's lifetime. It had its world premiere on 19 June 1777 at the Haymarket Theatre in London. A revised and edited version of the score by Clifford Bax and Frederic Austin premiered on 30 December 1922 at the Kingsway Theatre in London.
Usage examples of "polly".
Polly lived in a studio-style maisonette and had set the rent accordingly.
The young doctor eyed her searchingly but did not question her decision, and on November 3 she was transferred with Melia, Polly, and four of the others to the Lady Penrhyn, the bunks they had occupied broken up, in order to make room for thirty Cape ewes.
Tom Jenkins went to his company commander, Captain Tench, and twenty-four hours later Jenny, with Melia, Polly, and Ann Inett, were offered a choice of plots, and after inspecting these, they settled on one on high ground near the head of the next cove, to the east of the main colony.
Polly had told Melrose all this, in a rancorous tone as if he were partially responsible, since he himself had suggested a church fete as a setting with some sort of situation involving a terrier chasing after the sack-racers.
The misapprehension, though instantly corrected, stuck in my mind, so that I persistently thought of the woman at the center of these group marriages as a Polly.
Garstin, Naomi Harries, Gent Koco, Polly Mackwood, Olly Marshall, John Morrice, John Roe, Tim Shephard, Poppy Thomas.
Professor, so readily that Polly wondered uneasily if they had outstayed their welcome.
Harold was to talk it over with Captain Pennell and phone out to Severndale the next morning, and if all went well, Peggy would go to Annapolis to take up certain branches of the work with Polly, and in the intervening mornings continue her work with Dr.
Harold, as the wife of an officer, was at liberty to take out a party of friends in one of the Academy launches, so she promptly got together a congenial dozen, Ralph, Happy, Shortie, Wheedles and Durand, Captain Pennell and four others besides Polly and herself, and in the crispness of the Indian Summer afternoon, steamed away up the Severn to Round Bay.
Teacher knew before her death that Polly and Helen had to stay together but all that last week when Lenore was there in Forest Hills she spent the time when she took Helen out for a daily walk persuading Helen to try it with Polly--at least for a while.
All Jack ever admitted to reading was the sports pages, and Polly had dreamt of politicizing him.
The only similarity of the two freighter sightings was that both ships were owned by the Polly Propylene line and had followed the same approach vector to Dzhou.
Polly Propylene line thought they could reduce the overall cost of maintenance by putting a thin ceramic coating on their hulls.
Miller, quickly sensing the distress it caused Polly to have anyone else do anything for Helen, had refrained from learning the alphabet.
Polly saw a knife, a wooden stake and a hammer, in neatly stitched little pockets.