Poll in a sentence as a noun

"Yeah, well, I guess that is a bit too long to be a poll entry.

Although this is "just" a poll it isn't meaningless.

This poll exemplifies the problem with all of these polls: it doesn't say what it's measuring.

+1 to the non-existent poll entry that says:"I know C thoroughly, though I barely ever use it these days.

", "What if too many people give implausible answers, can it be corrected for or will the poll be junked?

Total bitcoins in existence ~12MBitcoins claimed to be owned by people participating in this poll ~35M

In fact, I can predict right now that the winner of this poll will be the most commonly-used language which isn't widely considered to be "nice".

Poll in a sentence as a verb

This was not a referendum, nor even a proper opinion poll - just a partisan petition.

Any time one client writes into the database and another reads it, you have to poll, since the DB won't give you notifications.

I don't think downvoting/upvoting should be a poll on whether someone agrees with a message; it's a decision of interesting/unhelpful.

The most significant result of this poll is that HN now seems to be past the point where we can rely on an honor system to prevent users from giving junk answers to polls.

Today it is feasible to directly poll everybody about every issue, so we no longer need the proxy.

Because a random subset of fanboyish social networking addicts in the follower list of the kind of person who finds this stuff interesting enough to create a poll, is a representative sample of the average user.

Poll definitions

noun

an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people

See also: canvass

noun

the top of the head

See also: pate crown

noun

the part of the head between the ears

noun

a tame parrot

noun

the counting of votes (as in an election)

verb

get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions

See also: canvass canvas

verb

vote in an election at a polling station

verb

get the votes of

verb

convert into a pollard; "pollard trees"

See also: pollard