If a ‘vote’ is a noun, what is the verb for what you do to it?
I wanted to say I registered my vote today, but for some reason that sounds like I signed up to vote, not that I went and voted. What word am I missing here?
cast
Concur.
vote
You “vote”, you “cast a vote”, or, my favorite, you “exercise your franchise”.
I would openly laugh at someone who said they had voted their vote.
This isn’t that unusual, right (a noun with a very similar or identical verb)?
I could “go out for a run” (run as a noun), but you’d never say you “ran your run”. In this situation you either pick a different verb or a different noun - “cast your vote” being the most obvious form.
I’m making it my personal mission to say this at least 4 times before the day is out.
“I voted.”
Complete and grammatically correct sentence.
“Prop 19 will win by 420 votes.”
Complete and grammatically correct sentence.
Run is actually pretty fun. I think it has the most definitions in English out of any word depending on its meaning
I want to run for office
Lets go for a run.
Run and get me a soda [as in in haste]
The bus runs between two sops
My midterm paper runs over 7 pages
I am running into financial issues
Don’t let the water run
I think a librarian told me one time as far as she knew it was 28 I think
Yes, but not what the OP asked for:
Obviously, the OP wants to know what verb goes in the blank in the construction “I __________ my vote.”
Then why did you tell him that “concur” goes in the blank? Or did you mean to say that you concur that “cast” is the usual verb?
Given the current state of politics in Australia I would say “I wasted my vote”
Unrelated to the OP, but a vote can also be exhausted. Where an optional preferential system is in use, if a ballot paper reaches a round of counting where its next preference needs to be used, but the person who cast the vote stopped numbering at that candidate, then the vote is exhausted and is removed from the count.
I burning my vote
179 definitions, according to Dictionary.com
[Evil Laugh/Voice of Doom]
Ha, Ha, Ha! A vote is never exhausted in Chicago!
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The latter, of course.
You latter your vote?:dubious:
Anyway I thought you cast a ballot, not a vote. I mean you vote by casting a ballot.
You don’t necessarily vote by ballot. A ballot was originally a coloured ball placed in a container as part of a voting procedure. The meaning has been extended to other physical means of expressing a vote, such as a paper voting slip. But you can vote without any physical means at all, e.g. by speaking, by raising your hand, by walking into this lobby rather than that one. There are lots of voting procedures which do not involve ballots. Yet even under these procedures I would say that I “cast my vote”.
I myself wouldn’t say that I “cast a ballot”, though I couldn’t say that the expression was wrong. But it seems odd. Since a ballot is a concrete, physical thing, saying that you cast it would suggest actual throwing to me. I mark a ballot, and place it in the ballot box. I don’t cast it anywhere.
If you don’t feel like “casting” your vote, you could always “rock” it.