poll vs recall

poll

verb
  • To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop. 

  • To solicit mock votes from (a person or group). 

  • To remove the horns of (an animal). 

  • To take, record the votes of (an electorate). 

  • To impose a tax upon. 

  • To pay as one's personal tax. 

  • To cut the hair of (a creature). 

  • To vote at an election. 

  • To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network). 

  • To be judged in a poll. 

  • To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one. 

  • To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation 

  • To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop. 

  • To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters. 

adj
  • Bred without horns, and thus hornless. 

noun
  • A polling place (usually as plural, polling places) 

  • A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count. 

  • The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer. 

  • The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish. 

  • A pet parrot. 

  • A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice. 

  • The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows. 

  • The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded. 

  • A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion. 

recall

verb
  • To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order). 

  • To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc. 

  • To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote. 

  • To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. 

  • To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect. 

  • To call again, to call another time. 

  • To request or order the return of (a faulty product). 

noun
  • Memory; the ability to remember. 

  • The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search. 

  • The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state. 

  • Request of the return of a faulty product. 

  • The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters. 

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