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See töll

English

Pronunciation


Pronunciation 1

  • IPA: /təʊl/ or /tɒl/
  • (General) IPA: /toʊl/ or /tɒl/


Noun

  1. A fee for using something, esp. of roads and bridges
  2. Loss or damage incurred through a disaster
  3. : The war has taken its toll on the people.


Derived terms


Translations

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA: /təʊl/
  • (General) IPA: /toʊl/


Noun

  1. The act or sound of tolling


Verb

  1. To make the noise of a bell
  2. : For whom the bell tolls.
  3. To ring a bell slowly and repeatedly
  4. To announce by tolling
  5. : The bells tolled the King’s death.
  6. To suspend
  7. : The statute of limitations defense was tolled as a result of the defendant|defendant’s wrongful conduct.


Translations

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Catalan

Noun

toll

  1. pool


Category:Catalan nouns

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German

Etymology

Old High German tol

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at De-toll.ogg


Adjective

toll

  1. crazy


See also


Category:German adjectives

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Hungarian

Noun

toll

  1. feather
  2. pen


Category:Hungarian nouns

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Irish

Pronunciation

  • {{IPA|lang=ga|[t̪ˠoːl̪ˠ]|[t̪ˠɔl̪ˠ]}}


Verb

{{infl|ga|verb|present|tollann|past|tholl|future|tollfaidh|conditional|thollfadh|past participle|tollta|verbal noun|tolladh}}

  1. to bore, pierce, perforate


Mutation

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Old English

Etymology

Borrowed into Germanic (*tolla-) from vulgar Latin toloneum, from late Latin teloneum, from Greek τελώνιον ‘toll-house’, from τέλος ‘tax’. Germanic cognates include Old Saxon tol (Dutch tol), Old High German zol (German Zoll), Old Norse tollr (Swedish tull). See also parallel forms represented by Old English toln.

Pronunciation

IPA: /tol:/

Noun

toll n

  1. tax, toll, fare


Category:Old English nouns

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tole \Tole\ (t[=o]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Toling.] [OE. tollen to draw, to entice; of uncertain
origin. Cf. Toll to ring a bell.]
To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing
or desirable; to allure by some bait. [Written also toll.]
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Whatever you observe him to be more frighted at then he
should, tole him on to by insensible degrees, till at
last he masters the difficulty.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Toll \Toll\, v. i.
1. To pay toll or tallage. [R.] --Shak.
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2. To take toll; to raise a tax. [R.]
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Well could he [the miller] steal corn and toll
thrice. --Chaucer.
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No Italian priest
Shall tithe or toll in our dominions. --Shak.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Toll \Toll\, v. t.
To collect, as a toll. --Shak.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Toll \Toll\, n.
The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly
repeated.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Toll \Toll\, n. [OE. tol, AS. toll; akin to OS. & D. tol, G.
zoll, OHG. zol, Icel. tollr, Sw. tull, Dan. told, and also to
E. tale; -- originally, that which is counted out in payment.
See Tale number.]
1. A tax 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, or the like.
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2. (Sax. & O. Eng. Law) A liberty to buy and sell within the
bounds of a manor.
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3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for
grinding.
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Toll and team (O. Eng. Law), the privilege of having a
market, and jurisdiction of villeins. --Burrill.

Toll bar, a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats
at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers.

Toll bridge, a bridge where toll is paid for passing over
it.

Toll corn, corn taken as pay for grinding at a mill.

Toll dish, a dish for measuring toll in mills.

Toll gatherer, a man who takes, or gathers, toll.

Toll hop, a toll dish. [Obs.] --Crabb.

Toll thorough (Eng. Law), toll taken by a town for beasts
driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at
its cost. --Brande & C.

Toll traverse (Eng. Law), toll taken by an individual for
beasts driven across his ground; toll paid by a person for
passing over the private ground, bridge, ferry, or the
like, of another.

Toll turn (Eng. Law), a toll paid at the return of beasts
from market, though they were not sold. --Burrill.
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Syn: Tax; custom; duty; impost.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Toll \Toll\, v. t. [L. tollere. See Tolerate.] (O. Eng. Law)
To take away; to vacate; to annul.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Toll \Toll\, v. t. [See Tole.]
1. To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.
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2. [Probably the same word as toll to draw, and at first
meaning, to ring in order to draw people to church.] To
cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and
uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell. "The
sexton tolled the bell." --Hood.
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3. To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to
ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend. --Shak.
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Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour.
--Beattie.
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4. To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.
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When hollow murmurs of their evening bells
Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their
cells. --Dryden.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Toll \Toll\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tolled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tolling.]
To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated
at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to
announce the death of a person.
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The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. --Shak.
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Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. --Pope.
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WordNet toll
n 1: a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for
maintenance)
2: value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to
obtain something; "the cost in human life was enormous";
"the price of success is hard work"; "what price glory?"
[syn: price, cost]
3: the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she
heard the distant toll of church bells" [syn: bell]
v 1: ring slowly; "For whom the bell tolls"
2: charge a fee for using; "Toll the bridges into New York
City"
Moby Dictionary
admission , admission fee , allure , anchorage , assessment , bait ,
bell , bong , brokerage , carfare , cellarage , cess , change ringing ,
charge , charges , chime , chiming , chink , clang , clanging , clangor ,
clank , clanking , clink , conscience money , contribution , cost ,
cover charge , damages , decoy , demand , ding , ding-a-ling , dingdong ,
dinging , dingle , direct tax , dockage , dong , donging , dues , duty ,
entice , entrance fee , entrap , exaction , exactment , excise , fare ,
fee , gong , graduated taxation , hire , imposition , impost ,
indirect tax , inveigle , jangle , jingle , jingle-jangle ,
jinglejangle , jingling , joint return , knell , knelling , lead on ,
levy , license fee , loss , peal , peal ringing , pealing , penalty ,
pilotage , portage , price , progressive tax , ring , ring changes ,
ringing , salvage , scot , scot and lot , seduce , separate returns ,
shot , single tax , sound , sound a knell , sounding , storage , strike ,
striking , supertax , surtax , tariff , tax , tax base , tax dodging ,
tax evasion , tax exemption , tax return , tax structure ,
tax withholding , tax-exempt status , taxable income , taxation ,
tempt , ting , ting-a-ling , tingle , tingling , tink , tinkle , tinkling ,
tinnitus , tintinnabulate , tithe , tolling , towage , tribute ,
wharfage , withholding tax


Toll one of the branches of the king of Persia's revenues (Ezra 4:13; 7:24), probably a tax levied from those who used the bridges and fords and highways.
TOLL, contracts. A sum of money for the use of something, generally applied to the consideration which is paid for the use of a road, bridge, or the like, of a public nature. Toll is also the compensation paid to a miller for grinding another person's grain. 2. The rate of taking toll for grinding is regulated by statute in most of the states. See 2 Hill. Ab. oh. 17; 6 Ad. & Ell. N. S. 31,; 6 Q. B. 3 1.
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