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Webster 1913 Edition


Polling

Poll′ing

,
Noun.
[See
Poll
the head.]
1.
The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges.
2.
Plunder, or extortion.
[Obs.]
E. Hall.
3.
The act of voting, or of registering a vote.
Polling booth
,
a temporary structure where the voting at an election is done; a polling place.

Definition 2024


polling

polling

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Verb

polling

  1. present participle of poll

Noun

polling (countable and uncountable, plural pollings)

  1. The action of taking a poll.
  2. (computing) A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral device to see if it has data to transfer.
  3. (politics, uncountable) the process of voting in an election.

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