toll
see also: Toll
Pronunciation Noun
Toll
Proper noun
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see also: Toll
Pronunciation Noun
toll (plural tolls)
- Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
- The war has taken its toll on the people.
- A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
- (business) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
- We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending.
- (US) A tollbooth.
- We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers.
- (UK, legal, obsolete) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
- A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
- French: péage
- German: Abgabe, Maut (roads, tunnels, etc.)
- Italian: pedaggio, dazio
- Portuguese: pedágio (Brazil), portagem (Portugal)
- Russian: пла́та
- Spanish: peaje
- Portuguese: perda
- Russian: потеря
toll (tolls, present participle tolling; past and past participle tolled)
- (transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
- Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges.
- (ambitransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene i]:
- No Italian priest / Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.
- (transitive) To take as a toll.
- To pay a toll or tallage.
- French: taxer
toll (plural tolls)
- The act or sound of tolling
- French: sonnerie
- Russian: (колоко́льный) звон
toll (tolls, present participle tolling; past and past participle tolled)
- (ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
- Martin tolled the great bell every day.
- Ask not for whom the bell tolls.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 12: The Cyclops]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630 ↗; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483 ↗:
- From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.
- (transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.
- The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers.
- When hollow murmurs of their evening bells / Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells.
- (transitive) To announce by tolling.
- The bells tolled the King’s death.
- Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour.
- Russian: звони́ть
- French: sonner
- German: läuten
- Italian: suonare
- Portuguese: anunciar, badalar
- Russian: звони́ть
- Spanish: tocar
- Russian: бла́говестить
toll (tolls, present participle tolling; past and past participle tolled)
- (transitive, obsolete) To draw; pull; tug; drag.
- (transitive) To tear in pieces.
- (transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
- Hou many virgins shal she tolle and drawe to þe Lord - "Life of Our Lady"
- (transitive) To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
toll (tolls, present participle tolling; past and past participle tolled)
- (legal, obsolete) To take away; to vacate; to annul.
- (legal) To suspend.
- The statute of limitations defense was tolled as a result of the defendant’s wrongful conduct.
- (AAVE) Simple past tense and past participle of tell
- I done toll you for the last time.
Toll
Proper noun
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