ballot

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: votevotingballoting

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting
  2. a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative“there were only 17 votes in favor of the motion”“they allowed just one vote per person”Synonyms: votevotingballoting

Verb (1)

  1. vote by ballot“The voters were balloting in this state”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Ballot \Bal"lot\ (b[a^]l"l[u^]t), n. [F. ballotte, fr. It. ballotta. See Ball round body.] [1913 Webster]

1.Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting. [1913 Webster]

2.The act of secret voting, whether by balls, written or printed ballots or tickets, or by use of a voting machine; the system of voting secretly. [1913 Webster +PJC]

The insufficiency of the ballot.— Dickens.[1913 Webster]

3.The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district. [1913 Webster]

4.the official list of candidates competing in an election. There are no women on the ballot. [1913 Webster]

Ballot box, (a) a box for receiving ballots. (b) the act, process or system of voting secretly; same as ballot[2]. "The question will be resolved by the ballot box." [1913 Webster]

Ballot \Bal"lot\ (b[a^]l"l[u^]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Balloted; p. pr. & vb. n. Balloting.] [F. ballotter to toss, to ballot, or It. ballottare. See Ballot, n.] To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate. [1913 Webster]
Ballot \Bal"lot\, v. t. To vote for or in opposition to. [1913 Webster]

None of the competitors arriving to a sufficient number of balls, they fell to ballot some others. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]

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