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Poll, polled or polling may refer to:
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- Polling, voting Voting is a method for a group such as a meeting or an electorate to make a decision or express an opinion—often following discussions, debates, or election campaigns. It is often found in democracies and republics
- Show of hands, voting Voting is a method for a group such as a meeting or an electorate to make a decision or express an opinion—often following discussions, debates, or election campaigns. It is often found in democracies and republics
- Opinion poll An opinion poll is a survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or within confidence intervals
- The polls, polling places A polling place or polling station is where voters cast their ballots in elections
- Poll, an election An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local
- Polling (computer science) Polling, or polled operation, in computer science, refers to actively sampling the status of an external device by a client program as a synchronous activity. Polling is most often used in terms of input/output , and is also referred to as polled I/O or software driven I/O, sequential interrogation of devices
Other
- Poll (livestock) The poll is a name of the part of an animal's head, alternatively referencing a point immediately behind or right between the ears. This area of the anatomy is of particular significance for the horse, the top of the head
- Polled livestock Polled livestock are livestock without horns, of species that normally have them. The term refers both to breeds or strains which are naturally polled through selective breeding and to naturally horned animals which have been dehorned. Natural polling occurs in cattle, yaks, water buffalo and goats, and in these it affects both sexes equally;, hornless livestock of normally horned species
- Polling, livestock dehorning Dehorning or disbudding is the process of removing or stopping the growth of the horns of livestock. Cattle, sheep, and goats are dehorned[citation needed] for economic and safety reasons. Horns can pose a risk to both humans, other animals, and the bearers of the horns themselves . The procedure is most commonly performed early in an animal's
- Polling or pollarding Pollarding is a pruning system in which the upper branches of a tree are removed, promoting a dense head of foliage and branches. It has been common in Great Britain and Europe since medieval times. Trees were traditionally pollarded for one of two reasons: for fodder to feed livestock, or for wood. Fodder pollards produced "pollard hay",, cutting the upper part of a tree and allowing it to regrow
- Polling (metallurgy) Polling in metallurgy is the process of refining a crude metal which has its own oxide as impurity. The molten metal is stirred with logs of green wood in a tank. The heat from the molten metal decomposes the wood which liberates hydrocarbon gases which reduce the oxide impurity into the metal. This method is generally used for refining copper and, removing oxides when refining a metal
People
- Max Poll Max Fernand Leon Poll was a Belgian ichthyologist who specialised in Cichlidae. In the years 1946 and 1947 he organised an expedition to Lake Tanganyika (born 1908), Belgian ichthyologist
- Graham Poll Graham Poll is an English former football referee in the FA Premier League. With 26 years of experience, he was regarded as one of the most prominent referees in the Premiership, often taking charge of the highest profile games. His final domestic game in a career spanning 1544 matches was the Championship play-off final on May 28, 2007 between (born 1963), British referee
- Silvia Poll Ahrens Silvia Poll Ahrens in Managua, Nicaragua) is an Olympic and National Record holding swimmer from Costa Rica. At the 1988 Olympics, she won Costa Rica's first Olympic medal, when she garnered the silver in the women's 200 free. As of 2009, she and her younger sister Claudia are Costa Rica's only Olympic medalists. Silvia also swam for Costa Rica at (born 1970), Central American swimmer – with Olympic medal
- Claudia Poll Claudia Maria Poll Ahrens is an Costa Rican Olympic gold-medalist and National Record holding swimming from Costa Rica. To date , she is Costa Rica's only gold-medalist, having won the country first gold (and second) Olympic medal at the 1996 Olympics in the 200 free. Her sister, Silvia, won Costa Rica's first Olympic medal at the 1988 Games. Also (born 1972), Central American swimmer – with Olympic gold medal
Places
- Poll (Cologne) Poll is a quarter of the city of Cologne, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is part of the borough of Porz, a quarter of Cologne, Germany
- Towns in Bavaria, Germany
- Municipalities in Austria
- Polling in Tirol Polling in Tirol is a municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land and is located 17 km west of Innsbruck and 7 km before Telfs. The location was mentioned as “Pollinga” in 763 for the first time. It has 893 inhabitants
- Polling im Innkreis Polling im Innkreis is a municipality in the district Braunau am Inn in Upper Austria, Austria, in Upper Austria
See also
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