What's the difference between poll and unpolled?

Poll


Definition:

  • (n.) A parrot; -- familiarly so called.
  • (n.) One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
  • (n.) The head; the back part of the head.
  • (n.) A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals.
  • (n.) Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election.
  • (n.) The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll.
  • (n.) The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls.
  • (n.) The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.
  • (n.) The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a).
  • (v. t.) To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop; to shear; as, to poll the head; to poll a tree.
  • (v. t.) To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop; -- sometimes with off; as, to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass.
  • (v. t.) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
  • (v. t.) To impose a tax upon.
  • (v. t.) To pay as one's personal tax.
  • (v. t.) To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
  • (v. t.) To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters; as, he polled a hundred votes more than his opponent.
  • (v. t.) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee/ poll.
  • (v. i.) To vote at an election.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
  • (2) Many hope this week's photocalls with the two men will be a recruiting aid and provide a desperately needed bounce in the polls.
  • (3) The move comes as a poll found that 74% of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill people end their lives.
  • (4) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
  • (5) Polls indicated that anger over the government shutdown, which was sharply felt in parts of northern Virginia, as well as discomfort with Cuccinelli's deeply conservative views, handed the race to McAuliffe, a controversial Democratic fundraiser and close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
  • (6) Numerous voters reported problems at polling stations on Tuesday.
  • (7) Yet, polls have Maryland voters approving same-sex marriage by 14 to 20 points.
  • (8) It is worth noting though that the government is reaping scant reward in the polls even though the economy has expanded by more than 3% over the past year and – according to the IMF – will be the fastest growing of the G7 economies this year.
  • (9) Unfortunately for the governor, he could win both states and still face the overwhelming likelihood of failure if he doesn't take Ohio, where the poll found Obama out front 51-43.
  • (10) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have suffered a dramatic slump in support as a result of their role in the coalition and are now barely ahead of the Greens with an average rating of about 8% in the polls.
  • (12) He won the Labour candidacy for the Scottish seat of Kilmarnock and Loudon in 1997, within weeks of polling day, after the sitting Labour MP, Willie McKelvey, decided to stand down when he suffered a stroke.
  • (13) The poll – which sets the stage for a tense and dramatic run to referendum day – suggests that, among the undecideds, more are inclined to vote Remain than Leave.
  • (14) The report's authors warns that to limit their spending councils will have "an incentive to discourage low-income families from living in the area" and that raises the possibility that councils will – like the ill-fated poll tax of the early 1990s – be left to chase desperately poor people through the courts for small amounts of unpaid tax.
  • (15) The polling evidence on this is very clear: the EU is not the primary concern of Ukip voters .
  • (16) Given that a post-poll economy still registers as a crucial issue among undecided voters, and that matters economic are now his BBC day job, that was hardly surprising.
  • (17) It also cancelled the results from 21 polling stations in Libreville.
  • (18) In this vision, people will go to polling stations on 18 September with a mindset somewhere between that of a lobby correspondent and a desiccated calculating machine.
  • (19) Donald Trump and the 'war on women': GOP confident mogul will lose the battle Read more Governor Scott Walker, who recently signed a restrictive 20-week abortion ban in Wisconsin , also opposes abortion without exceptions and has said voters agree, though polls tell a different story.
  • (20) Then they look at a poll and assume that a poll is a proxy for what is really going on.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest David Cameron and Crosby during the London mayoral campaign in 2012.

Unpolled


Definition:

  • (a.) Not polled.
  • (a.) Not enumerated or registered; as, an unpolled vote or voter.
  • (a.) Not plundered.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There can be no doubt that two decades of an unwarranted, unpoliced credit boom was one of the chief causes of the poor recovery.
  • (2) We concluded that piezoelectrically active vinylidenefluoride-trifluoroethylene copolymer tubes significantly enhance nerve regeneration as compared to chemically identical, unpoled tubes and that the polarity of the corona poling procedure used to fabricate piezoelectric materials may play a role in determining biological responses.
  • (3) Overall, 24 poled grafts (P) and 24 unpoled grafts (UP) (15-22 mm in length) were implanted in the infrarenal aorta of 48 adult rats.
  • (4) Detailed surface characterization of PVDF substrates using electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA) and a comprehensive wettability profile revealed that poled and unpoled PVDF was chemically indistinguishable and showed similar surface wettabilities and adhesive properties.
  • (5) In contrast to unpoled samples, poled ones displayed a sharp endothermic peak and a greater heat of transition at the Curie temperature, indicative of an increase in crystal order and size.
  • (6) They need to work towards a situation in which the far right and other hate groups are harried enough that availability of their work is limited, but not harried to the extent that they have no option but to turn to an alternative, entirely unpoliced platform.
  • (7) Positive, negative and unpoled vinylidenefluoride-trifluoroethylene copolymer tubes were used to repair a 10 mm gap in transected sciatic nerves of adult rats.
  • (8) "It is a sinister aspect of these cases that modern technology almost certainly assisted rioters in other places to organise the rapid movement and congregation of disorderly groups in new and unpoliced areas."
  • (9) Nerves regenerated in poled channels contained a higher number of myelinated axons than those regenerated in unpoled channels at both time periods.
  • (10) Poled PVDF channels were compared to unpoled PVDF channels after 4 and 12 weeks of implantation.
  • (11) Nerves regenerated in positively poled channels had a significantly greater number of myelinated axons than those regenerated in unpoled channels 4 wk post-implantation.
  • (12) Piezoelectric PVDF substrates generated 2-3 mV at 1200 Hz when placed on standard incubator shelves and unpoled PVDF substrates showed no output.

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