vote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəʊt/
ipa: /voʊt/
note: Indic
ipa: /voʈ/
note: V-W merger
ipa: /(w)oʈ/
homophone: oat (implicit onglide)
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: votes
Etymology: From Latin vōtum, a form of voveō (“I vow”) (cognate with Ancient Greek εὔχομαι (eúkhomai, “to vow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ- (“to promise, to vow”). Doublet of vow.
Senses: examples: text: The city council decided the matter should go to public vote.
text: Parliament will hold a vote of confidence regarding the minister.
text: One occasion indicative votes were used was in 2003 when MPs were presented with seven different options on how to reform the House of Lords.
text: Friday’s vote has permanently redefined the kilogram and sent Le Grand K into retirement.
ref: 2018 November 13, Matthew Robinson and Lianne Kolirin, “The world has just redefined the kilogram”, in CNN:
glosses: A formalized choice on legally relevant measures such as employment or appointment to office or a proceeding about a legal dispute.
examples: text: The Supreme Court upheld the principle of one person, one vote.
text: There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
ref: 1862 [1836], Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, in The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Mass.:: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, pages 7–8:
text: As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
ref: 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC, page 01:
text: It is important to ensure that shareholders who engage with an investee company by voting know whether their votes have been correctly taken into account. Confirmation of receipt of votes should be provided in the case of electronic voting. In addition, each shareholder who casts a vote in a general meeting should at least have the possibility to verify after the general meeting whether the vote has been validly recorded and counted by the company.
ref: Directive (EU) 2017/828 amending Directive 2007/36/EC, recital 10
text: If you vote once, you're considered a good citizen. If you vote twice, you face four years in jail.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 158:
glosses: An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot.
examples: text: Jol[ante]. In you, Sir, / I live; and when, or by the Courſe of Nature, / Or Violence you muſt fall, the End of my / Devotions is, that one and the ſame Hour / May make us fit for Heaven. // Server. I join with you / In my votes that way: […]
ref: 1633, Philip Massinger, “The Guardian”, in Three New Playes; viz. The Bashful Lover, The Guardian, The Very Woman. As They have been Often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friers, by His Late Majesties Servants, with Great Applause, London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Prince's Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, published 1655, OCLC 15553475; republished as “The Guardian. A Comical History. As It hath been Often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friars, by His Late Majesty's Servants, with Great Applause, 1655.”, in Thomas Coxeter, editor, The Works of Philip Massinger. Volume the Fourth. Containing, The Guardian. A Very Woman. The Old Law. The City Madam. And Poems on Several Occasions, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Davies, in Russel-street, Covent-Garden, 1761, OCLC 6847259, Act V, scene i, page 71
glosses: An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.
glosses: A formalized petition or request.
glosses: Any judgment of intellect leading to a formal opinion, a point of view.
examples: text: dissenting vote (i.e. in particular the differing opinion published with a judicial judgment considered as a source of information)
glosses: Any judgment of intellect leading not only to a formal opinion but also to a particular choice in a legally relevant measure, a point of view as published.
Hyponyms: acclamation
Bubba vote
clothespin vote
conscience vote
crossover vote
donkey vote
early vote
faggot vote
floating vote
free vote
informal vote
popular vote
postal vote
protest vote
straw vote
supervote
swing vote
tactical vote
voice vote
vote of confidence
vote of no confidence
vote of thanks
whipped vote
Derived terms: absentee vote
alternative vote
block vote
bullet vote
casting vote
cast one's vote
cemetery vote
confidence vote
cross-vote
downvote
get out the vote
ghost vote
indicative vote
no-confidence vote
nonvote
overvote
proxy vote
put to the vote
revote
silent vote
single transferable vote
subvote
televote
undervote
upvote
vote-a-rama
votebank
vote bank
vote buying
vote-by-mail
vote-catching
vote-getter
voteless
vote mob
vote-shame
vote shaming
votesheet
vote-winner
voteworthy