Poll

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Poll, polled, or polling may refer to:

Forms of voting and counting

  • Poll, a formal election
    • Election verification exit poll, a survey taken to verify election counts
    • Polling, voting to make decisions or determine opinions
    • Polling places or polling station, a.k.a. the polls, where voters cast their ballots in elections
  • Poll, a non-formal election:
    • Opinion poll, a survey of public opinion
    • Exit poll, a survey of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations
    • Straw poll, an ad-hoc or unofficial vote
    • Survey (human research)

Agriculture

  • Poll (livestock), the top of an animal's head
  • Polled livestock, hornless livestock of normally horned species
  • Polling, livestock dehorning

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Poll (band), a Greek pop group of the 1970s
  • Poll, the German title for the 2010 film The Poll Diaries

Mathematics, science, and technology

  • poll (Unix), a Unix system call
  • POLL, DNA polymerase lambda
  • Polling (computer science), actively and synchronously sampling an external device's status
  • Polling system, a mathematical model where a single server visits a set of queues in some order

People

Given name or middle name

  • Silvia Poll Ahrens (born 1970), Central American swimmer with Olympic medal
  • Poll Ashokanand (born 1940), Indian former cricketer
  • Poll Shyamsunder (1924–1988), Indian cricketer

Surname

  • Brian Poll (1941–1999), English cricketer
  • Claudia Poll (born 1972), Central American swimmer with Olympic gold medal
  • George St Poll (died 1550s), an English politician
  • Graham Poll (born 1963), British referee
  • Jana Franziska Poll (born 1988), German volleyball player
  • Jon Poll (born 1958), American film director
  • Martin Poll (1922–2012), American film and television producer
  • Max Poll (1908–1991), Belgian ichthyologist
  • Mihkel Poll (born 1986), Estonian pianist
  • Richard D. Poll (1918–1994), American historian, academic, author
  • Thomas St Poll (died 1582), member of Parliament
  • Kim Polling (born 1991), Dutch judoka

Places

Austria

Germany

Other uses

  • Deed poll, a legal document binding only to a single person or party
  • Poll, the part of a claw hammer head containing its driving face
  • Poll tax (disambiguation), several related forms of taxation
  • Polling (usually spelled "poleing"), standing up with arms to the sides in unusual public spaces; a variant of planking
  • Polling or pollarding, cutting the upper part of a tree and allowing it to regrow
  • Push poll, an interactive marketing technique or political [mis-]information campaign designed to appear as an opinion poll

See also

  • Paul (disambiguation)
  • Pohl (disambiguation)
  • Pohle (disambiguation)
  • Pol (disambiguation)
  • Pole (disambiguation)
  • Poling (disambiguation)
    • Poling (metallurgy), removing oxides when refining a metal
  • Pollard (disambiguation)
  • Polly (disambiguation)
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