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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vote \Vote\, noun [L. votum a vow, wish, will, fr. vovere, votum, to vow: cf. F. vote. See {Vow}.]
1. An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer. [Obs.] --Massinger.
2. A wish, choice, or opinion, of a person or a body of persons, expressed in some received and authorized way; the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference, or choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the person voting has an interest in common with others, either in electing a person to office, or in passing laws, rules, regulations, etc.; suffrage.
3. That by means of which will or preference is expressed in elections, or in deciding propositions; voice; a ballot; a ticket; as, a written vote.
The freeman casting with unpurchased hand The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. --Holmes.
4. Expression of judgment or will by a majority; legal decision by some expression of the minds of a number; as, the vote was unanimous; a vote of confidence.
5. Votes, collectively; as, the Tory vote; the labor vote.
{Casting vote}, {Cumulative vote}, etc. See under {Casting}, {Cumulative}, etc.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vote \Vote\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Voted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Voting}.] [Cf. F. voter.] To express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either viva voce, or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations, etc., or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an interest with others.
The vote for a duelist is to assist in the prostration of justice, and, indirectly, to encourage the crime. --L. Beecher.
To vote on large principles, to vote honestly, requires a great amount of information. --F. W. Robertson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vote \Vote\, verb (used with an object)
1. To choose by suffrage; to elec?; as, to vote a candidate into office.
2. To enact, establish, grant, determine, etc., by a formal vote; as, the legislature voted the resolution.
Parliament voted them one hundred thousand pounds. --Swift.
3. To declare by general opinion or common consent, as if by a vote; as, he was voted a bore. [Colloq.]
4. To condemn; to devote; to doom. [Obs.] --Glanvill.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
vote
noun
1: a choice that is made by voting; "there were only 17 votes in favor of the motion" [syn: {ballot}, {voting}, {balloting}]
2: the opinion of a group as determined by voting; "they put the question to a vote"
3: a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment; "American women got the vote in 1920" [syn: {right to vote}, {suffrage}]
4: a body of voters who have the same interests; "he failed to get the Black vote"
5: the total number of votes cast; "they are hoping for a large vote" [syn: {voter turnout}]
verb
1: express one's preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution; cast a vote; "He voted for the motion"; "None of the Democrats voted last night"
2: express one's choice or preference by vote; "vote the Democratic ticket"
3: express a choice or opinion; "I vote that we all go home"; "She voted for going to the Chinese restaurant"
4: be guided by in voting; "vote one's conscience"
5: bring into existence or make available by vote; "They voted aid for the underdeveloped countries in Asia"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
147 Moby Thesaurus words for "vote": Australian ballot, Hare system, OK, PR, absentee voting, acceptance, adherence, admiration, approbation, approval, aye, back, back up, ballot, ballot-box stuffing, be enfranchised, be implicated in, bear a hand, blessing, canvass, canvassing, card voting, cast a ballot, casting vote, chip in, choose, cloture, colonization, committee consideration, contribute, countenance, counting heads, cumulative system, cumulative voting, debate, deciding vote, deliberation, desire, divide, division, elect, election fraud, elector, endorse, endorsement, enfranchisement, enter into, esteem, fagot vote, favor, favorable vote, female suffrage, filibuster, filibustering, filing, first reading, floating, franchise, go into, graveyard vote, hand vote, have suffrage, help decide, household franchise, introduction, join, join in, list system, logrolling, make the scene, manhood suffrage, nay, no, nontransferable vote, opinion, opt, partake, partake of, participate, participate in, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plump, plumper, plural system, plural vote, poll, polling, preference, preferential system, preferential voting, proportional representation, proxy, proxy voting, pull an oar, record vote, referendum, repeating, representation, respect, right to vote, rising vote, roll call, sanction, say, seal of approval, second reading, secret ballot, show of hands, single system, single transferrable vote, single vote, single-member district, sit in, sit in on, snap vote, stamp of approval, steamroller methods, straw vote, suffrage, suffragette, suffragettism, suffragism, suffragist, support, tabling, take part in, talkathon, the vote, third reading, ticket, transferable vote, universal suffrage, viva voce, voice, voice vote, voter, voting, voting machine, voting right, woman-suffragist, write-in, write-in vote, yea, yea vote, yeas and nays, yes
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
VOTE, noun The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
W
W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, the names of the others being monosyllabic. This advantage of the Roman alphabet over the Grecian is the more valued after audibly spelling out some simple Greek word, like _epixoriambikos_. Still, it is now thought by the learned that other agencies than the difference of the two alphabets may have been concerned in the decline of "the glory that was Greece" and the rise of "the grandeur that was Rome." There can be no doubt, however, that by simplifying the name of W (calling it "wow," for example) our civilization could be, if not promoted, at least better endured.
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