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toll

1

[ tohl ]

noun

  1. a payment or fee exacted by the state, the local authorities, etc., for some right or privilege, as for passage along a road or over a bridge.
  2. the extent of loss, damage, suffering, etc., resulting from some action or calamity:

    The toll was 300 persons dead or missing.

  3. a tax, duty, or tribute, as for services or use of facilities.

    Synonyms: , , ,

  4. a payment made for a long-distance telephone call.
  5. (formerly, in England) the right to take such payment.
  6. a compensation for services, as for transportation or transmission.
  7. grain retained by a miller in payment for grinding.

verb (used with object)

  1. to collect (something) as toll.
  2. to impose a tax or toll on (a person).

verb (used without object)

  1. to collect toll; levy toll.

toll

2

[ tohl ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to cause (a large bell) to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as for summoning a congregation to church, or especially for announcing a death.
  2. to sound or strike (a knell, the hour, etc.) by such strokes:

    In the distance Big Ben tolled five.

  3. to announce by this means; ring a knell for (a dying or dead person).
  4. to summon or dismiss by tolling.
  5. to lure or decoy (game) by arousing curiosity.
  6. to allure; entice:

    He tolls us on with fine promises.

verb (used without object)

  1. to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as a bell.

noun

  1. the act of tolling a bell.
  2. one of the strokes made in tolling a bell.
  3. the sound made.

toll

3

[ tohl ]

verb (used with object)

Law.
  1. to suspend or interrupt, as a statute of limitations.

toll

1

/ əʊ /

verb

  1. to ring or cause to ring slowly and recurrently
  2. tr to summon, warn, or announce by tolling
  3. to decoy (game, esp ducks)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. the act or sound of tolling
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

toll

2

/ əʊ; tɒl /

noun

    1. an amount of money levied, esp for the use of certain roads, bridges, etc, to cover the cost of maintenance
    2. ( as modifier )

      toll road

      toll bridge

  2. loss or damage incurred through an accident, disaster, etc

    the war took its toll of the inhabitants

  3. Also calledtollage (formerly) the right to levy a toll
  4. Also calledtoll charge a charge for a telephone call beyond a free-dialling area
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of toll1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English tol(le), Old English noun toll “tax, levy, custom, toll” (cognate with Dutch tol, German Zoll, Old Norse tollr ), assimilated variant of Middle English toln(e), Old English toln, from Late Latin tolōnēum, telonium, teloneum for Latin ٱōŧܳ “customs post,” from Greek ٱōԱîDz “tollhouse,” derivative of éDz “tax”; the verb is derivative of the noun

Origin of toll2

First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English tollen, tol(le) “to entice, lure, pull,” hence probably “to make (a bell) ring by pulling a rope”; akin to Old English tyllan “to draw, attract,” found only in the compound verb fortyllan “to draw off, seduce”

Origin of toll3

First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English tollen “to remove, legally annul,” from Anglo-French to(u)ller, from Latin tollere “to lift up, take away, remove”
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of toll1

C15: perhaps related to Old English -tyllan, as in fortyllan to attract

Origin of toll2

Old English toln; related to Old Frisian tolene, Old High German zol toll, from Late Latin ٱōԾܳ customs house, from Greek ٱóԾDz, ultimately from telos tax
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Idioms and Phrases

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Example Sentences

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A new study now reveals the toll that AMR is taking on children.

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It’s another thing to depict accurately the emotional toll, stresses, the need to juggle, compartmentalize, to code switch and do everything else that is asked of these people over the course of the day.

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The cameras, essentially a beefed-up version of the technology used to collect highway tolls, collect hundreds of thousands of plate numbers every month.

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Two major operations would take their toll on most.

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But nothing could have prepared her for the toll of hanging from a harness.

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