Polled

Word POLLED
Character 6
Hyphenation polled
Pronunciations /pəʊld/

Definitions and meanings of "Polled"

What do we mean by polled?

Having no horns; hornless. adjective

Deprived of the poll; lopped, as a tree having the top cut off.

Cropped; clipped; also, bald; shaven.

Having no horns or antlers: noting a stag or other deer that has cast its antlers, or a hornless breed of cattle, or an animal that has lost its horns or whose horns have been removed: as, a polled cow. Also called, in Scotland, dodded.

Deprived of a poll, or of something belonging to the poll. Specifically: (a) Lopped; -- said of trees having their tops cut off. (b) Cropped; hence, bald; -- said of a person. “The polled bachelor.” Beau. & Fl. (c) Having cast the antlers; -- said of a stag. (d) Without horns adjective

Simple past tense and past participle of poll. verb

Lopped; said of trees having their tops cut off. adjective

Cropped; bald. adjective

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.

To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.

To cut the hair of (a creature).

To remove the horns of (an animal).

To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.

(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.

To extort from; to plunder; to strip.

To impose a tax upon.

To pay as one's personal tax.

To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.

To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation.

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The word "polled" in example sentences

However, the question SurveyUSA polled is significantly different from the ballot title, which reads: ❋ Unknown (2010)

Remember about a month ago when Palin polled HIGHER than obama ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sarah Palin polled only six percent, and Mike Huckabee came in last, with zerovotes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even among Republicans, the word polled a positive 56 to 34. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Obama could even lose California it McCain polled that number. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Carola McGiffert, co-director of the Smart Power Commission, launched in 2006 by the Center for Strategic and International Studies to examine how to restore America's image around the world, said the clarity of the phrase polled well. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In other words, every margin on every issue that CBS polled is statistically irrelevant, since the small sample size provided results within the MOE on every question. ❋ Unknown (2004)

While the sub-group polled is small, the fact that the President never seems to break 20% of this group at least suggests that he might not do as well as his advisors have suggested. ❋ Unknown (2004)

(Maybe seeing her name polled over and over again by Rasmussen compelled her to act.) ❋ Crisitunity (2010)

The terms polled are noteworthy -- Walter Lippmann invented the term "big business" as derisive, just as Marx (or his contemporaries) did for "capitalism." ❋ Unknown (2010)

There must be something going on in polled areas that aren’t very promising for him. — ❋ Unknown (2008)

If we project that 60 percent of that 25% of voters favors Obama and are not being polled, that is a gain of up to 5% for Obama beyond what the polls show. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But another poll shows that only 10 percent of the population -- polled, that is -- had heard nothing about Clarke's books and his claims. ❋ Unknown (2004)

People currently in the Administration or the House or Senate were not polled, which is odd because they actually run the country. ❋ 247wallst (2010)

Those animals without horns are referred to as polled because the top of their heads are exposed. ❋ By Oscar H. Will III (2009)

Why are genetically hornless cattle and sheep referred to as polled? ❋ By Oscar H. Will III (2009)

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