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- （常作the polls）the process of voting in an election投票：
the country went to the polls on March 10.
该国于3月10日举行投票。
1.1
- a record of the number of votes cast in an election票数：
the ruling party won 24 seats, narrowly topping the poll.
执政党赢得了24席, 勉强获得最高票数。
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the polls
the places where votes are cast in an election投票站：the polls have only just closed.
投票站刚刚才关闭。
1.3
- short for OPINION POLL.OPINION POLL的简称。
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- dialect a person's head〈方〉人头。
2.1
- the part of the head on which hair grows; the scalp头顶; 头皮。
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- a hornless animal, especially one of a breed of hornless cattle无角动物（尤指无角牛）。参见RED POLL.
with obj.
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- （常作be polled）record the opinion or vote of对…做民意调查; 记…票数：
over half of those polled do not believe the prime minister usually tells the truth.
半数以上接受民意调查的人认为首相经常不说真话。
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- no obj., with adverbial(of a candidate in an election) receive a specified number of votes（候选人）获得票数：
the Green candidate polled 3.6 per cent.
绿党候选人获得了3.6%的票数。
1.2
- Telecommunications & Computing check the status of (a measuring device, part of a computer, or a node in a network), especially as part of a repeated cycle【电信, 计算机】轮询, 探询。
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- cut the horns off (an animal, especially a young cow)截掉（动物, 尤指小牛）的角。
2.1
- archaic cut off the top of (a tree or plant), typically to encourage further growth; pollard〈古〉（尤指为了促进生长而）截去（树或植物）的梢; 修枝。
派生词
pollee
/pəʊˈliː/ noun （限动词义项1）词源
Middle English （in the sense 'head'）： perhaps of Low German origin. The original sense was 'head', and hence 'an individual person among a number', from which developed the sense 'number of people ascertained by counting of heads' and then 'counting of heads or of votes' （17th cent.）.