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What does TOLL mean?

Definitions for TOLL
toʊltoll

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tollnoun

    a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)

  2. price, cost, tollnoun

    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. bell, tollverb

    the sound of a bell being struck

    "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells"

  4. tollverb

    ring slowly

    "For whom the bell tolls"

  5. tollverb

    charge a fee for using

    "Toll the bridges into New York City"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. TOLLnoun

    An excise of goods; a seizure of some part for permission of the rest.

    Etymology: This word seems derived from tollo, Lat. toll , Saxon; tol, Dutch; told, Danish; toll, Welsh; taille, Fr.

    Toll, in law, has two significations: first, a liberty to buy and sell within the precincts of a manor, which seems to import as much as a fair or market; secondly, a tribute or custom paid for passage. John Cowell.

    Empson and Dudley the people esteemed as his horse-leaches, bold men, that took toll of their master’s grist. Francis Bacon.

    The same Prusias joined with the Rhodians against the Byzantines, and stopped them from levying the toll upon their trade into the Euxine. Arbuthnot.

  2. To Tollverb

    Etymology: tollo, Lat.

    When any one dies, then by tolling or ringing of a bell the same is known to the searchers. John Graunt.

    An appeal from sentence of excommunication does not suspend it, but then devolves it to a superior judge, and tolls the presumption in favour of a sentence. John Ayliffe.

    The adventitious moisture which hangeth loose in a body, betrayeth and tolleth forth the innate and radical moisture along with it. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist. №. 365.

  3. To Tollverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    I will buy me a son-in-law in a fair, and toll for him: for this I’ll none of him. William Shakespeare, All’s well that ends well.

    Where, when, by whom, and what y’ were sold for,
    And in the open market toll’d for? Hudibras, p. ii.

    The meale the more yeeldeth, if servant be true,
    And miller that tolleth takes none but his due. Thomas Tusser.

    The first bringer of unwelcome news
    Hath but a losing office; and his tongue
    Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
    Remember’d tolling a departed friend. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.

    Our going to church at the tolling of a bell, only tells us the time when we ought to go to worship God. Edward Stillingfleet.

    Toll, toll,
    Gentle bell, for the soul
    Of the pure ones. John Denham.

    You love to hear of some prodigious tale,
    The bell that toll’d alone, or Irish whale. Dryden.

    They give their bodies due repose at night:
    When hollow murmurs of their ev’ning bells
    Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells. Dry.

    All the bells tolled in different notes. Alexander Pope.

    With horns and trumpets now to madness swell,
    Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. Alexander Pope, Dunciad.

    The maid asks who the bell toll’d for? Jonathan Swift.

ChatGPT

  1. toll

    A toll is a fee or charge that is levied for certain services or facilities, often used in the context of roadways, bridges, tunnels, or ferries, where users have to pay for using these features. The collected money is typically used for the maintenance, development, or improvement of these facilities.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tollverb

    to take away; to vacate; to annul

  2. Tollverb

    to draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole

  3. Tollverb

    to cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell

  4. Tollverb

    to strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend

  5. Tollverb

    to call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing

  6. Tollverb

    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

  7. Tollnoun

    the sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated

  8. Tollnoun

    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

  9. Tollnoun

    a liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor

  10. Tollnoun

    a portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding

  11. Tollverb

    to pay toll or tallage

  12. Tollverb

    to take toll; to raise a tax

  13. Tollverb

    to collect, as a toll

Wikidata

  1. Toll

    The Toll genes encode members of the Toll-like receptor class of proteins. "Toll" is German for "amazing" or "great". Mutants in the Toll gene were originally identified by 1995 Nobel Laureates Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric Wieschaus and colleagues in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster in 1985, and cloned by the laboratory of Kathryn Anderson in 1988. Since then, eleven mammalian Toll genes have been identified. In flies, Toll was first identified as a gene important in embryogenesis in establishing the dorsal-ventral axis. In 1996, Toll was found to have a role in the fly's immunity to fungal infections. Both mammalian and invertebrate Toll genes are required for innate immunity. Toll-like receptors in mammals were identified in 1997 at Yale University by Ruslan Medzhitov and Charles Janeway. Concurrently, Two seperate studies, lead by Shizuo Akira, Bruce A. Beutler and their respective colleagues discovered that the Toll-like receptors act as the principal sensors of infection in mammals. The name of the gene family derives from Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard's 1985 exclamation, "Das ist ja toll!" The exclamation, which translates as "That's amazing!" was in reference to the underdeveloped ventral portion of a fruit fly larva.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Toll

    tōl, n. a tax for the liberty of passing over a bridge or road, selling goods in a market, &c.: a portion of grain taken by a miller for grinding.—v.t. (Shak.) to exact as a tribute.—adj. Toll′able, subject to toll.—ns. Toll′age, payment of toll: the amount paid as toll; Toll′bar, a movable bar across a road, &c., to stop passengers liable to toll; Toll′booth, a booth where tolls are collected; Toll′bridge, a bridge where toll is taken; Toll′dish, a dish for measuring the toll in mills; Toll′er, Toll′-gath′erer; Toll′gate, a gate where toll is taken; Toll′house, the house of a toll-gatherer; Toll′man, the man who collects toll: a toll-gatherer; Tol′sey (obs.), a tollbooth: an exchange. [A.S. tol, toll; cf. Dut. tol, Ger. zoll; and tell, to count.]

  2. Toll

    tōl, v.i. to sound, as a large bell, esp. with a measured sound, as a funeral bell.—v.t. to cause to sound, as a bell: to strike, or signal by striking.—n. the sound of a bell when tolling.—n. Toll′er. [M. E. tollen, to pull—A.S. tyllan, in for-tyllan, to allure.]

  3. Toll

    tōl, v.t. (law) to take, annul. [L. tollĕre, to take away.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. toll

    A demand, &c., at the Sound; hence the epithet of Sound dues.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. TOLL

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Toll is ranked #13383 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Toll surname appeared 2,276 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Toll.

    90.9% or 2,071 total occurrences were White.
    3.8% or 87 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.7% or 63 total occurrences were Asian.
    1.4% or 32 total occurrences were Black.
    0.5% or 12 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.4% or 11 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of TOLL in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of TOLL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of TOLL in a Sentence

  1. Jordan Rushie:

    If he leaves Central, he could lose his acceptance at Penn, that would be horrible. This has had a strong physical and emotional toll on him.

  2. Jerome Powell:

    We know that high inflation exacts a toll, particularly for those less able to meet the higher costs of essentials like food, housing and transportation.

  3. Janet Moore:

    It's been our goal to leave what we started out with for our kids. To see that gradually slipping away month after month, it takes its toll on you.

  4. Gretchen Whitmer:

    Inflation has taken a toll. The cost of gas, the cost of groceries, it's tough, but I also know that you take away someone's ability to make their health care decisions, that only compounds the pain that families are going to feel.

  5. George Whelton:

    The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - to others, a death toll.

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  • zvonit, mýto, mýtnéCzech
  • Abgabe, läuten, MautGerman
  • διόδιαGreek
  • tocar, peajeSpanish
  • soitto, soittaminen, soittaa, soida, maksullinen, narrata, siirtää, määrätä, tulli, vero, yksikköhinta, maksu, rahastaaFinnish
  • sonnerie, sonner, péageFrench
  • peaxeGalician
  • אגרהHebrew
  • टोलHindi
  • vámHungarian
  • suonare, pedaggio, dazioItalian
  • אַגרָהHebrew
  • 通行料金, 有料, 通行料Japanese
  • ბაჟიGeorgian
  • 통행세Korean
  • pereMāori
  • пата́рина, моста́рина, жртви, ѕво́ниMacedonian
  • luiden, tolDutch
  • tollNorwegian
  • portagem, pedágio, badalar, anunciarPortuguese
  • потеря, благовестить, звони́ть, позвони́ть, по́шлина, жертва, звон, бла́говест, сбор, пла́таRussian
  • Geçiş ücretiTurkish

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