Polling vs. Pooling: Know the Difference

The casting and registering of votes in an election.

A small body of still water.

The number of votes cast or recorded.

An accumulation of standing liquid; a puddle

The places where votes are cast and registered during an election, considered as a group

A deep or still place in a stream.

A place where votes are cast and registered

A swimming pool.

A survey of the public or of a sample of public opinion to acquire information.

An underground accumulation of petroleum or gas in porous sedimentary rock.

The head, especially the top of the head where hair grows.

A game of chance, resembling a lottery, in which the contestants put staked money into a common fund that is later paid to the winner.

The blunt or broad end of a tool such as a hammer or axe.

A fund containing all the money bet in a game of chance or on the outcome of an event.

To receive (a given number of votes).

A supply, as of vehicles or workers, available for use by a group.

To receive or record the votes of

A group of journalists who cover an event and then by agreement share their reports with participating news media

To cast (a vote or ballot).

A mutual fund established by a group of stockholders for speculating in or manipulating prices of securities.

To question in a survey; canvass.

The persons or parties participating in such a fund.

To cut off or trim (hair, horns, or wool, for example); clip.

A grouping of assets, such as mortgages, that serves as a basis for the issuing of securities.

To trim or cut off the hair, wool, branches, or horns of

An agreement between competing business concerns to establish controls over production, market, and prices for common profit.

To vote at the polls in an election.

Any of several games played on a six-pocket billiards table usually with 15 object balls and a cue ball. Also called pocket billiards.

Present participle of poll

To form pools or a pool

The action of taking a poll.

To accumulate in a body part

(computing) A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral or service to see if it has data to transfer.

To put into a pool, as for common use

The process of voting in an election.

To join or form a pool.

The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges.

(resource management) Grouping together of various resources or assets.

Plunder, or extortion.

Present participle of pool

The act of voting, or of registering a vote.

The act of uniting, or an agreement to unite, an aggregation of properties belonging to different persons, with a view to common liabilities or profits.