poll

• n. 投票; 投票数; 投票所
• vt.投票する；短くする；...を投票する；票を得る
• vi.
• adj.角がない；切り取られた；剪定された
• n. （独?ハンガリー?ローマ?英語の）人名；（独?ハンガリー?ローマ?英語の）世論調査

中世英語のpolle, 頭皮, 頭, 頭, 中世ドイツ語のpol, 頭, 頂点, 頂上から, 原語ゲルマン語の *pullaz, 頭, 頭頂, 丸い物体, PIE *boul, 丸い物体, 膨らみ, 泡, PIE *beu, 吹き, 膨らみ, 膨らみから, 語源は ball, pouch, と同じ.headcount、vote、ballot、poll、および頭を切る、剪定する、刈り込むなどの動詞の意味に由来する。

poll

poll: [13] ‘Head’ is the original and central meaning of poll, from which all its modern uses have derived. The ‘voting’ sort of poll, for instance, which emerged in the 17th century, is etymologically a counting of ‘heads’, and the poll tax is a ‘per capita’ tax. The verb poll originally meant ‘cut someone’s hair’, a clear extension of the notion of ‘top’ or ‘head’ (the derived pollard [16] denotes an ‘animal with its horns removed’ or a ‘tree with its top branches cut off’); this later developed to ‘cut evenly across’, which is what the poll of deed poll means (originally it was a legal agreement cut evenly across, signifying that only one person was party to it – agreements made between two or more people were cut with a wavy line).
=> pollard

poll (n.)

"head," early 14c., polle "hair of the head; piece of fur from the head of an animal," also "head," from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch pol "head, top." Sense extended early 14c. to "person, individual." Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1620s, from notion of "counting heads;" meaning "survey of public opinion" is first recorded 1902. Poll tax, literally "head tax," is from 1690s. Literal use in English tends toward the part of the head where the hair grows.

poll (v.1)

"to take the votes of," 1620s, from poll (n.). Related: Polled; polling. A deed poll "deed executed by one party only," is from earlier verbal meaning "cut the hair of," because the deed was cut straight rather than indented (see indent).

poll (v.2)

"to cut, trim," late 14c., "to cut short the hair" (of an animal or person), from poll (n.). Of trees or plants from 1570s. Related: Polled; polling.

Poll

fem. proper name, short for Polly. Noted from 1620s as a parrot's name.

1. He will have been heartened by the telephone opinion poll published yesterday.

彼は昨日発表された電話世論調査の結果に励まされるだろう。

2.The poll canvassed the views of almost eighty economists.

世論調査では80人近くの経済学者から意見が寄せられた。

3.Labour was top of the poll with forty-six percent.

労働党が46%の得票数でトップに立った。

4.An independent opinion poll published today shows growing discontent with the government.

今日発表された独立した世論調査によると、政府に対する民衆の不満は日に日に高まっている。

5.A national poll shows the presidential race in a dead heat.

大統領選挙で対立していることを示す全国世論調査。