Figurative head counts

• Polling, voting
  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.- Reasons for voting :...
  
  
• Show of hands, voting
  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.- Reasons for voting :...
  
  
• Opinion poll
  Opinion poll
  An opinion poll, sometimes simply referred to as a 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...
  
  
• The polls, polling places
• Poll, an election
  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...
  
  
• Polling (computer science)
  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 or software driven .Polling is sometimes used...
  
  , sequential interrogation of devices

Other

• Poll (livestock), the top of the head
• Polled livestock
  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 also to naturally horned animals which have been dehorned...
  
  , hornless livestock of normally horned species
• Polling, livestock dehorning
• Polling or pollarding
  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 and is practiced today in urban areas worldwide, primarily to maintain trees at a predetermined...
  
  , cutting the upper part of a tree and allowing it to regrow
• Polling (metallurgy)
  Polling (metallurgy)
  Polling is a method employed in the purification of copper which contains cuprous oxide as an impurity. The impure metal is melted and green wooden poles are used to agitate the molten impure copper. The heat of the copper makes the pole emit a gas which reduces the cuprous oxide to...
  
  , removing oxides when refining a metal
• Polling (fad), standing up with arms to the sides in unusual public spaces

People

• Max Poll
  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
  Graham Poll is an English former football referee in the Premier League and is considered the best English referee of the last 25 years in a list maintained by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics...
  
   (born 1963), British referee
• Silvia Poll Ahrens
  Silvia Poll Ahrens
  Sylvia 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...
  
   (born 1970), Central American swimmer – with Olympic medal
• Claudia Poll
  Claudia Poll
  Claudia Maria Poll Ahrens is an Olympic gold-medalist and National Record holding swimmer from Costa Rica. To date , she is Costa Rica's only gold-medalist, having won the country first gold Olympic medal at the 1996 Olympics in the 200 meter freestyle. Her sister, Silvia, won Costa Rica's first...
  
   (born 1972), Central American swimmer – with Olympic gold medal

Places

• Poll (Cologne), a quarter of Cologne, Germany
• Towns in Bavaria, Germany
  • Polling, Mühldorf
  • Polling, Weilheim-Schongau
    Polling, Weilheim-Schongau
    Polling is a municipality in the Weilheim-Schongau district, in Bavaria, Germany.It is the birthplace of the 12th century theologian Gerhoh of Reichersberg....
    
    
• Municipalities in Austria
  • Polling in Tirol
    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 941 inhabitants.-External links:...
    
    
  • Polling im Innkreis
    Polling im Innkreis
    Polling im Innkreis is a municipality in the district Braunau am Inn in Upper Austria, Austria.-References:...
    
    , in Upper Austria

See also

• Pole (disambiguation)
• Pollard (disambiguation)
• Polly (disambiguation)
• Paul (disambiguation)