toll

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]

1 ring slowly; "For whom the bell tolls"

2 charge a fee for using; "Toll the bridges into New York City"

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊl

Pronunciation 1

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

Noun

1. A fee for using something, esp. of roads and bridges
2. Loss or damage incurred through a disaster

   The war has taken its toll on the people.

Derived terms

• death toll
• toll road
• toll bridge
• toll booth
• tollgate

Translations

• Chinese: 通行費, 通行费 (tōngxíng fèi)
• Dutch: tol
• French: péage
• Greek: φόρος (fóros)
• Hebrew: אגרה (agra)
• Italian: tributo
• Japanese: 通行料 (tsūkōryō)
• Korean: 통행세 (tonghaengse)
• Old English: toll
• Portuguese: pedágio
• Russian: пошлина (póšlina)
• Spanish: peaje

Pronunciation 2

• /təʊl/
• (General) /toʊl/

Noun

1. The act or sound of tolling

Verb

1. To make the noise of a bell

   For whom the bell tolls.

2. To ring a bell slowly and repeatedly
3. To announce by tolling

   The bells tolled the King’s death.

4. To suspend

   The statute of limitations defense was tolled as a result of the defendant’s wrongful conduct.

Translations

Catalan

Noun

toll

1. pool

German

Etymology

Old High German tol

Pronunciation

Adjective

toll

1. crazy

See also

• cool
• geil

Hungarian

Noun

toll

1. feather
2. pen

Irish

Pronunciation

• lang=ga|[t̪ˠoːl̪ˠ]|[t̪ˠɔl̪ˠ]

Verb

1. to bore, pierce, perforate

Mutation

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

/tol:/

Noun

toll n

1. tax, toll, fare

The word toll has several meanings.

• In the context of transportation:
  • toll road, toll bridge, toll tunnel, and toll house;
  • Toll Holdings, in Australian transport;
  • Toll Collect, in Germany;
  • Toll NZ, in New Zealand;
  • Electronic toll collection, high occupancy toll, shadow toll, toll revenue bond, and shunpiking.
• Toll (gene) and toll-like receptor, in genetics.
• Tolling (law), a doctrine which allows for the pausing or delaying of the running of the limitation period set forth by a statute of limitations.
• Toll (telecommunications), refers to connection charges, for instance note trunk vs toll charging and toll-free telephone numbers.
• Toll switching trunk.
• Toll House cookies, a brand of Nestlé, S.A.
• Johan Christopher Toll (1743–1817), a Swedish statesman and soldier.
• Toll is German for "great".
• Sometimes used as a synonym for Tariff.
• a Funeral toll is the slow, solemn ringing of Church bells at funerals.
• toll-treat, a process or procedure for handling metal ore before refining, definition and explanation required

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