Toll meaning
A fixed charge or tax for a privilege, especially for passage across a bridge or along a road.
noun
Toll is defined as the charge for using a specific road or for making a telephone call, or it refers to the total loss or damage caused by an event.
When you pay $.50 cents to cross a bridge, this is an example of a toll.
When a plane crash causes 10 deaths, this is an example of a situation where the death toll is equal to ten.
When you suffer a loss and feel sad, this is an example of a situation where the loss took an emotional toll on you.
noun
A charge for a service, such as a telephone call to another country.
noun
An amount or extent of loss or destruction, as of life, health, or property.
noun
To exact as a toll.
verb
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To charge a fee for using (a structure, such as a bridge).
verb
To sound (a large bell) slowly at regular intervals.
verb
To announce or summon by tolling.
verb
To sound in slowly repeated single tones.
verb
The act of tolling.
noun
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The sound of a bell being struck.
noun
A tax or charge for a privilege, esp. for permission to pass over a bridge, along a highway, etc.
noun
A charge for service or extra service, as for transportation, for a long-distance telephone call, or, formerly, for having one's grain milled.
noun
The number lost, taken, exacted, etc.; exaction.
The tornado took a heavy toll of lives.
noun
To collect a toll or tolls.
verb
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To take or gather as a toll.
verb
To impose a toll on.
verb
To allure or entice; esp., to decoy (game, etc.)
verb
To sound or ring slowly in regularly repeated strokes.
verb
The act of tolling a bell.
noun
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The sound of a bell tolling.
noun
A single stroke of the bell.
noun
To bar, or take away; to defeat.
verb
To stop from running (said of a statutory period of time).
verb
To charge for the use of another’s property, hence toll roads, toll bridges, and so on.
verb
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Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
The war has taken its toll on the people.
noun
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.
noun
(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.
noun
A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
noun
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To impose a fee for the use of.
Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges.
verb
(intransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
verb
To take as a toll.
verb
The act or sound of tolling.
noun
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(ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
Martin tolled the great bell every day.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls.
verb
To summon by ringing a bell.
The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers.
verb
To announce by tolling.
The bells tolled the King's death.
verb
Origin of toll
- Middle English tol from Old English variant of toln from Medieval Latin tolōnīum from Latin telōnēum tollbooth from Greek telōneion from telōnēs tax collector from telos tax telə- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English tollen to ring an alarm perhaps from tollen to entice, pull variant of tillen from Old English -tyllan
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English tol, tolle, from Old English tol, toll, toln (“toll, duty, custom"), from Proto-Germanic *tullÅ (“what is counted or told"), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation, fraud"). Cognate with Dutch tol (“toll"), German Zoll (“toll, duty, customs"), Danish told (“toll, duty, tariff"), Swedish tull (“toll, customs"), Icelandic tollur (“toll"), Latin dolus (“trick, deception"). More at tell, tale.
From Wiktionary
- From Middle English tolen, tollen, variation of tullen, tillen (“to draw, allure, entice"), from Old English *tyllan, *tillan (“to pull, draw, attract") (found in compounds fortyllan (“to seduce, lead astray, draw away from the mark, deceive") and betyllan, betillan (“to lure, decoy")), related to Old Frisian tilla (“to lift, raise"), Dutch tillen (“to lift, raise, weigh, buy"), Low German tillen (“to lift, remove"), Swedish dialectal tille (“to take up, appropriate").
From Wiktionary
- Alternate etymology derives Old English toll, from Medieval Latin tolÅneum, tolÅnium, alteration (due to the Germanic forms above) of Latin telÅneum, from Ancient Greek τελώνιον (telÅnion, “toll-house"), from Ï„Îλος (telos, “tax").
From Wiktionary
- Probably the same as Etymology 3. Possibly related to or influenced by toil
From Wiktionary
- From Latin tollere
From Wiktionary