Definitions of Toll [ʊl]

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Definition of 'Toll'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) toll
a payment or fee exacted, as by the state, for some right or privilege, as for passage along a road or over a bridge.

2.  toll
the extent of loss, damage, suffering, etc., resulting from some action or calamity:
The toll was 300 persons dead or missing.

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

4.  toll
a payment made for a long-distance telephone call.

5.  toll
a compensation for services, as for transportation or transmission.

6. (v.t.) toll
to collect (something) as toll.

7.  toll
to impose a tax or toll on (a person).

8. (v.i.) toll
to collect toll; levy toll.

9. (v.t.) toll
to cause (a large bell) to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated.

10.  toll
to sound or strike (a knell, the hour, etc.) by such strokes.

11.  toll
to announce by this means; ring a knell for (a dying or dead person).

12.  toll
to summon or dismiss by tolling.

13. (v.i.) toll
to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as a bell.

14. (n.) toll
the act of tolling a bell.

15.  toll
one of the strokes made in tolling a bell.

16.  toll
the sound made.

Etymology: (1175–1225; ME: to entice, lure, pull, hence prob. to make (a bell) ring by pulling a rope)

Definition of 'Toll'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) toll
a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)

2. (noun) price, cost, toll
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?"

3. (verb) bell, toll
the sound of a bell being struck
"saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells"

4. (verb) toll
ring slowly
"For whom the bell tolls"

5. (verb) toll
charge a fee for using
"Toll the bridges into New York City"

Definition of 'Toll'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. toll
money you pay for crossing a bridge, driving on a road, etc.
to pay a toll

2. toll
take its toll
to have an eventual bad effect
The trauma of the past week is taking its toll on the family.

Definition of 'Toll'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Toll
the sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated

2. (noun) Toll
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

3. (noun) Toll
a liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor

4. (noun) Toll
a portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding

5. (verb) Toll
to take away; to vacate; to annul

6. (verb) Toll
to draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole

7. (verb) Toll
to cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell

8. (verb) Toll
to strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend

9. (verb) Toll
to call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing

10. (verb) Toll
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

11. (verb) Toll
to pay toll or tallage

12. (verb) Toll
to take toll; to raise a tax

13. (verb) Toll
to collect, as a toll

Translation of 'Toll'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to ring (a bell) slowly The church bell tolled solemnly.
Afrikaans: lui, stadig lui	Arabic: يَدُق	Bulgarian: звъня
Brazilian: dobrar	Czech: vyzvánět	German: läuten
Danish: ringe	Greek: χτυπώ πένθιμα (για καμπάν	Spanish: tañer, doblar
Estonian: kella lööma, helisema	Farsi: به صدا درآمدن	Finnish: soida
French: sonner	Hebrew: לְצַלצֵל	Hindi: राहदारी
Croatian: zvoniti	Hungarian: harangoz; szól	Indonesian: membunyikan lonceng
Icelandic: hringja (klukku/bjöllu) h	Italian: suonare	Japanese: 鳴らす
Korean: 종을 (오랫동안) 울리다	Lithuanian: skambėti	Latvian: zvanīt (par zvanu)
Malay: membunyikan	Dutch: luiden	Norwegian: ringe (med langsomme slag
Polish: dzwonić	Persian: به صدا درآمدن	Pashto: وروو روزنګ وهل، ټلۍ وهل:
Portuguese: dobrar	Romanian: a bate	Russian: звонить в колокол
Slovak: vyzváňať	Slovenian: zvoniti	Serbian: zvoniti
Swedish: ringa, klämta	Thai: ตีระฆัง	Turkish: ağır ağır çalmak
Taiwanese: 緩慢而有規律地敲鐘	Ukrainian: повільно і розмірено бити	Urdu: آہستہ آہستہ بجانا
Vietnamese: rung chuông	Chinese: 缓慢而有规律地敲钟
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