Synonyms of the word

poll

• n. A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
• n. A formal election.
• n. A polling place (usually as plural, polling places).
• n. (now obsolete outside veterinary contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally)…
• n. (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
• n. The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
• n. The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
• v. (transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
• v. (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
• v. (intransitive) To vote at an election.
• v. To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
• v. To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
• v. (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
• v. (transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
• v. To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
• v. (transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer…
• v. (intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
• v. (obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
• v. To impose a tax upon.
• v. To pay as one's personal tax.
• v. To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation;…
• v. (law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation.
• adj. (of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.
• n. A pet parrot.
• n. (Britain, dated, Cambridge University slang) One who does not try for honors at university, but is content…

acquire

• v. (transitive) To get.
• v. (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
• v. (medicine) To contract.
• v. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.

canvas

• n. A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
• n. A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
• n. A basis for creative work.
• n. (computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.
• n. (nautical) sails in general.
• n. A tent.
• n. A painting, or a picture on canvas.
• n. A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show…
• n. Alternative spelling of canvass.
• v. To cover an area or object with canvas.
• v. Alternative spelling of canvass.

canvass

• n. A solicitation of voters or public opinion.
• n. A tally, audit and certification of votes.
• v. To solicit voters, opinions, etc. from; to go through, with personal solicitation or public addresses.
• v. To conduct a survey.
• v. To campaign.
• v. To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize.
• v. To examine by discussion; to debate.

clip

• v. To grip tightly.
• v. To fasten with a clip.
• v. (archaic) To hug, embrace.
• v. (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
• n. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
• n. An unspecified but normally understood as rapid speed or pace.
• n. (obsolete) An embrace.
• n. A frame containing a number of bullets which is intended to be inserted into the magazine of a firearm…
• n. A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the…
• n. (fishing, Britain, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
• v. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
• v. To curtail; to cut short.
• v. (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
• v. (American football) An illegal tackle: Throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting…
• v. (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
• v. (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering…
• v. To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
• n. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole.
• n. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
• n. (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
• n. (informal) A blow with the hand.

count

• v. (intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.
• v. (transitive) To determine the number (of objects in a group).
• v. (intransitive) To be of significance; to matter.
• v. (intransitive) To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
• v. (transitive) To consider something an example of something.
• v. (obsolete) To take account or note (of).
• v. (Britain, law) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
• n. The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
• n. The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
• n. A countdown.
• n. (law) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
• n. (baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
• n. (obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
• n. The male ruler of a county.
• n. A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.

counting

• v. present participle of count.
• n. A count; the act by which something is counted.

crop

• n. (agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or…
• n. The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
• n. A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
• n. The lashing end of a whip.
• n. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
• n. A rocky outcrop.
• n. The act of cropping.
• n. A short haircut.
• n. (anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store…
• n. (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
• n. (archaic or dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of…
• n. (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
• n. (mining) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
• v. (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
• v. (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
• v. (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.
• v. (intransitive) To yield harvest.
• v. (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.

crown

• n. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
• n. (heraldry) A representation of such a headdress, as in heraldry; it may even be that only the image exists,…
• n. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
• n. (by extension) Any reward of victory or a mark of honor.
• n. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
• n. (metonymically) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
• n. (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
• n. The topmost part of the head.
• n. The highest part of a hill.
• n. The top section of a hat, above the brim.
• n. The raised centre of a road.
• n. The highest part of an arch.
• n. Splendor; culmination; acme.
• n. Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation)…
• n. (historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
• n. (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
• n. (forestry) The top of a tree.
• n. (anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums.
• n. (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
• n. (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
• n. (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
• n. (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable.
• n. (paper) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 inches x 15 inches.
• n. (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central…
• n. (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
• n. (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
• n. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
• n. The dome of a furnace.
• n. (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
• n. (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
• n. A whole turkey with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
• n. (African-American colloquialism) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; elliptical for…
• adj. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
• adj. Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
• v. To place a crown on the head of.
• v. To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
• v. To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
• v. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
• v. To declare (someone) a winner.
• v. (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the…
• v. (transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as…
• v. To hit on the head.
• v. (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video…
• v. (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
• v. (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
• v. (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
• v. (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
• v. (obsolete) past participle of crow.

dress

• n. (countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part…
• n. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
• n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
• n. A dress rehearsal.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
• v. To adorn, ornament.
• v. (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting…
• v. (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
• v. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
• v. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
• v. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
• v. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
• v. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
• v. (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
• v. (military, transitive, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to…
• v. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

enquiry

• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A question.
• n. Search for truth, information or knowledge.

enumeration

• n. The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.
• n. A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed.
• n. A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.
• n. (programming) A data type that allows variables to have any of a predefined set of values.

get

• v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To receive.
• v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
• v. (copulative) To become.
• v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
• v. (transitive) To cause to do.
• v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
• v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
• v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
• v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
• v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
• v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
• v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
• v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
• v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
• v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
• v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
• v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
• v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
• v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
• v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
• v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
• v. (transitive) To getter.
• v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
• v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
• v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
• v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
• v. (euphemistic) To kill.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
• n. Offspring.
• n. Lineage.
• n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
• n. Something gained.
• n. (Britain, regional) A git.
• n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

inquiry

• n. The act of inquiring; a seeking of information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.
• n. Search for truth, information, or knowledge; examination of facts or principles; research; investigation.

lop

• n. (Geordie) A flea.
• v. (transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune…
• v. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
• v. To allow to hang down.
• n. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
• n. (US, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
• n. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

numeration

• n. The act of counting or numbering things; enumeration.
• n. Any system of giving names to numbers.

parrot

• n. A kind of bird, many species of which are colourful and able to mimic human speech, of the order Psittaciformes…
• n. A parroter; a person who repeats what was just said.
• n. (archaic) A puffin.
• n. (geology, obsolete) Channel coal.
• v. (transitive) To repeat (exactly what has just been said) without necessarily showing understanding, in…

pate

• n. (somewhat archaic) The head, particularly the top or crown.
• n. (archaic) Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities.
• n. Alternative spelling of pâté (finely-ground paste of meat, fish, etc.).
• n. The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color.

pollard

• n. (often attributive) A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.
• n. A buck deer that has shed his antlers.
• n. Hornless varieties of domestic animals, as cattle or goats.
• n. (obsolete, rare) The chub (L. cephalus), a kind of fish.
• n. (now Australia) A fine grade of bran including some flour.
• n. (numismatics, historical) 13th-century European coins minted as debased counterfeits of the sterling silver…
• v. (horticulture) To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense…

prune

• n. (obsolete) A plum.
• n. The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
• n. (slang) An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.
• v. (transitive, horticulture) To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make…
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
• v. (transitive, computer science) To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
• v. (obsolete) To preen; to prepare; to dress.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged…

reckoning

• v. present participle of reckon.
• n. The action of calculating or estimating something.
• n. (archaic) The bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.
• n. An opinion or judgement.
• n. The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.

research

• n. (uncountable) Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications,…
• n. (countable) A particular instance or piece of research.
• v. (transitive) To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
• v. (intransitive) To make an extensive investigation into.
• v. (transitive) To search again.

snip

• v. To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
• v. To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
• v. To break off; to snatch away.
• v. (informal) To circumcise.
• v. (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
• n. The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
• n. A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
• n. Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
• n. A small amount of something; a pinch.
• n. (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
• n. A small or weak person, especially a young one.
• n. (dated) An impertinent or mischievous person.
• n. (obsolete) A share or portion; a snack.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A tailor.

survey

• n. The act of surveying; a general view.
• n. The act of making measurement of relative position of the earth surface.
• n. A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items,…
• n. An examination of the opinions of a group of people.
• n. A questionnaire or similar instrument used for examining the opinions of a group of people.
• n. The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's…
• n. A measured plan and description of any portion of country.
• v. To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook.
• v. To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine.
• v. To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of.
• v. To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by…
• v. To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the…
• v. To investigate the opinions or experiences of people by asking them questions.

tally

• adj. (Britain) Used as a mild intensifier: very (almost exclusively used by the upper classes).
• interj. (radio, aviation) Target sighted.
• n. Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number;.
• n. Later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
• n. Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially…
• n. One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
• n. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.
• n. A tally shop.
• n. A ribbon on a sailor's cap bearing the name of the ship or the (part of) the navy to which they belong.
• v. (transitive) To count something.
• v. (transitive) To record something by making marks.
• v. (transitive) To make things correspond or agree with each other.
• v. (intransitive) To keep score.
• v. (intransitive) To correspond or agree.
• v. (nautical) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
• adv. (obsolete) In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.

top

• n. The highest part or component of an object.
• n. A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.
• n. (heading) Someone who is eminent.
• n. (BDSM) A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
• n. (LGBT, slang) A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.
• n. (physics) A top quark.
• n. The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
• n. (ropemaking) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the…
• n. (sound) Highest pitch or loudest.
• n. (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been…
• n. (obsolete, except in one sense of phrase on top of) Eve; verge; point.
• n. The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
• n. (in the plural, slang, dated) Topboots.
• n. (golf) A stroke on the top of the ball.
• n. (golf) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top.
• n. (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group…
• v. To cover on the top or with a top.
• v. To cut or remove the top (as of a tree).
• v. To excel, to surpass, to beat.
• v. To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
• v. (Britain, slang) To commit suicide, (rare) to murder.
• v. (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
• v. (slang, gay sexuality) To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex.
• v. (archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
• v. (archaic) To predominate.
• v. (archaic) To excel; to rise above others.
• v. (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
• v. (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
• v. To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
• v. (slang, dated) To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.
• v. (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
• v. To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior…
• v. To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
• v. (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this…
• adj. Situated on the top of something.
• adj. (informal) Best; of the highest quality or rank.
• adj. (informal) Very good, of high quality.
• adv. Rated first.

trim

• v. (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess; e.g. 'trim a hedge', 'trim a beard'…
• v. (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
• v. (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust pitch using trim tabs.
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast;…
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially…
• v. (dated) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.
• v. (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
• v. (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
• v. (transitive, dated) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
• n. (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
• n. (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
• n. Dress; gear; ornaments.
• n. (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
• n. (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast;…
• n. (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
• adj. Physically fit.
• adj. Slender, lean.
• adj. Neat or smart in appearance.
• adv. (nautical) In good order, properly managed or maintained.
• adv. (nautical) With sails well trimmed.

upside

• n. the highest or uppermost side or portion of something.
• n. a favourable aspect of something that also has an unfavourable aspect.
• n. an upward tendency, especially in a financial market etc.
• prep. (informal) On the top of.

vote

• n. A formalized choice on matters of administration or other democratic activities.
• n. An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot.
• n. (obsolete) An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election.