vote
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin vōtum, a form of voveō (“to vow”) (cognate with Ancient Greek εὔχομαι (eúkhomai, “to vow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ- (“to promise, to vow”). Doublet of vow.
Inflected forms:
form: votes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: votes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: voting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: voted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: voted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: vote
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: vote
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: voted
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: vote
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: votest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: voted
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: votedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: votes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: voteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: voted
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: vote
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: voted
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: vote
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: voted
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: vote
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: voting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: voted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: A formalized choice on legally relevant measures such as employment or appointment to office or a proceeding about a legal dispute.
pos: noun
examples: The city council decided the matter should go to public vote.
Parliament will hold a vote of confidence regarding the minister.
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.
Friday’s vote has permanently redefined the kilogram and sent Le Grand K into retirement.
gloss: An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot.
pos: noun
examples: The Supreme Court upheld the principle of one person, one vote.
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.
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.
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.
If you vote once, you're considered a good citizen. If you vote twice, you face four years in jail.
gloss: An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 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: […]
gloss: A formalized petition or request.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Any judgment of intellect leading to a formal opinion, a point of view.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: dissenting vote (i.e. in particular the differing opinion published with a judicial judgment considered as a source of information)
gloss: To cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Q: Did you vote last month? A: Yes. I voted for John Smith, and it's a shame that he lost; you can't blame me for the mess we're in now.
The directors voted on the question of whether to increase the R&D spending.
To vote on large principles, to vote bravely, requires a great amount of information.
The Violence against Women Act was not distinct from the Crime Bill but an integral part of it. […] Sanders has subsequently cited the inclusion of the VAWA as his reason for voting for the overall bill, on the rather Bidenian principle that the perfect should not be the enemy of the good.
Americans voted for deportations when a plurality backed Donald Trump – who’d spoken openly about his plans on the trail – last November. But they didn’t necessarily vote for this.
gloss: To choose or grant (some objective) by means of a vote, or by general consent.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The directors voted an increase in R&D spending.
The meal was voted a great success.
gloss: To exercise one's voting right upon (a ballot or a share of stock).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: vote your ballot
vote your shares
Please vote your ballot using black or blue ink, then seal your ballot inside the privacy envelope.
The depository may vote shares on behalf of investors who have not submitted instruction to the bank.
Sixteen years after the landing on Plymouth Rock, the general court of Massachusetts voted a sum, equal to a year’s rate ol the whole colony, towards the erection of a college.
Related words: elect
nominate
Derived words: absentee vote
alternative vote
block vote
bullet vote
casting vote
cast one's vote
cemetery vote
confidence vote
get out the vote
ghost vote
indicative vote
no-confidence vote
nonvote
proxy vote
put to the vote
silent vote
single transferable vote
subvote
televote
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
cross-vote
downvote
overvote
revote
undervote
upvote
countervote
how-to-vote card
like turkeys voting for Christmas
like turkeys voting for an early Christmas
misvote
old enough to vote
outvote
postvote
prevote
unvote
unvoted
votable
voteable
vote blue no matter who
vote early, vote often
voter
vote with one's feet
vote with one's wallet
voting
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: stem
lang: Albanian
word: drejtë
lang: Albanian
word: votë
lang: Albanian
word: votim
lang: Arabic
word: صَوْت
roman: ṣawt
lang: Arabic
word: تَصْوِيت
roman: taṣwīt
lang: Armenian
word: քվեարկություն
roman: kʻvearkutʻyun
lang: Assamese
word: ভোট
roman: bhüt
lang: Asturian
word: votu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: səs
lang: Bashkir
word: тауыш
roman: tawış
lang: Belarusian
word: го́лас
roman: hólas
lang: Belarusian
word: во́тум
roman: vótum
lang: Bengali
word: ভোট
roman: bhōṭ
lang: Bulgarian
word: глас
roman: glas
lang: Burmese
word: မဲ
roman: mai:
lang: Burmese
word: မဲဆန္ဒ
roman: mai:hcanda.
lang: Catalan
word: vot
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 投票
roman: tau⁴ piu³
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 表決 /表决
roman: biu² kyut³
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 投票
roman: tóupiào
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 表決 /表决
roman: biǎojué
lang: Czech
word: hlas
lang: Danish
word: afstemning
lang: Danish
word: stemme
lang: Dutch
word: stem
lang: Dutch
word: stembusgang
lang: Esperanto
word: voĉdono
lang: Esperanto
word: baloto
lang: Estonian
word: hääletamine
lang: Finnish
word: äänestys
lang: Finnish
word: ääni
lang: French
word: voix
lang: French
word: vote
lang: Galician
word: voto
lang: Georgian
word: ხმა
roman: xma
lang: German
word: Stimme
lang: German
word: Votum
lang: Greek
word: ψηφοφορία
roman: psifoforía
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ψηφοφορίᾱ
roman: psēphophoríā
lang: Ancient Greek
word: χειροτονίᾱ
roman: kheirotoníā
lang: Haitian Creole
word: vòt
lang: Hebrew
word: בְּחִירָה
roman: b'khirá
lang: Hindi
word: वोट
roman: voṭ
lang: Hungarian
word: szavazás
lang: Icelandic
word: kosning
lang: Ilocano
word: botos
lang: Indonesian
word: pemungutan suara
lang: Irish
word: vóta
lang: Italian
word: voto
lang: Japanese
word: 投票
roman: tōhyō
lang: Kashubian
word: głos
lang: Kazakh
word: дауыс
roman: dauys
lang: Kazakh
word: вотум
roman: votum
lang: Khmer
word: ការបោះឆ្នោត
roman: kaa bɑh chnaot
lang: Korean
word: 투표
roman: tupyo
lang: Kyrgyz
word: добуш
roman: dobuş
lang: Kyrgyz
word: вотум
roman: votum
lang: Lao
word: ຄະແນນ
roman: kha nǣn
lang: Lao
word: ການເລືອກຕັ້ງ
roman: kān lư̄ak tang
lang: Latin
word: suffrāgium
lang: Latvian
word: balsošana
lang: Latvian
word: balss
lang: Lithuanian
word: balsas
lang: Luganda
word: okulonda
lang: Macedonian
word: глас
roman: glas
lang: Malay
word: undian
lang: Māori
word: pōti
lang: Mongolian
word: санал
roman: sanal
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠰᠠᠨᠠᠯ
roman: sanal
lang: Norman
word: vote
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: avstemning
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: stemme
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: avstemming
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: avrøysting
lang: Occitan
word: vòt
lang: Pashto
word: رايه
roman: rāya
lang: Dari
word: رَأْی
roman: ra'y
lang: Iranian Persian
word: رَأْی
roman: ra'y
lang: Piedmontese
word: vot
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Stemm
lang: Polish
word: głos
lang: Polish
word: wotum
lang: Portuguese
word: voto
lang: Romanian
word: vot
lang: Russian
word: го́лос
roman: gólos
lang: Russian
word: во́тум
roman: vótum
lang: Northern Sami
word: jienasteapmi
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: гла̑с
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: glȃs
lang: Slovak
word: hlas
lang: Slovene
word: glás
lang: Spanish
word: votación
lang: Spanish
word: plebiscito
lang: Swedish
word: röstning
lang: Swedish
word: omröstning
lang: Tagalog
word: boto
lang: Tajik
word: овоз
roman: ovoz
lang: Tajik
word: раъй
roman: ra'y
lang: Tamil
word: ஓட்டு
roman: ōṭṭu
lang: Tamil
word: வாக்கு
roman: vākku
lang: Tatar
word: тавыш
roman: tawış
lang: Telugu
word: వోటు
roman: vōṭu
lang: Thai
word: เสียง
roman: sǐiang
lang: Thai
word: การเลือกตั้ง
roman: gaan-lʉ̂ʉak-dtâng
lang: Turkish
word: oylama
lang: Turkish
word: oy
lang: Turkish
word: rey
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: آرا
roman: ara
lang: Turkmen
word: ses
lang: Ukrainian
word: го́лос
roman: hólos
lang: Ukrainian
word: во́тум
roman: vótum
lang: Urdu
word: ووٹ
roman: voṭ
lang: Urdu
word: رائے
roman: rāe
lang: Uyghur
word: ئاۋاز
roman: awaz
lang: Uzbek
word: ovoz
lang: Vietnamese
word: (cuộc) bầu cử
lang: Vietnamese
word: (cuộc) biểu quyết
lang: Vietnamese
word: (sự) bỏ phiếu
lang: Vietnamese
word: (sự) bầu phiếu
lang: Vietnamese
word: (cuộc) đi bầu
lang: Walloon
word: vôtaedje
lang: Walloon
word: vote
lang: Walloon
word: vwès
lang: Welsh
word: pleidlais
lang: Yiddish
word: שטים
roman: shtim
lang: Zazaki
word: rey (diq)