Definitions for toll
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

   1. To ring a bell.

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

   2. To take away; to vacate; to annul. A term only used in the civil law: in this sense the o is short, in the former long.

   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.

   3. To take away. Obsolete.

   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.

   1. To pay toll or tallage.

   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.

   2. To take toll or tallage.

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

   3. [I know not whence derived.]To sound as a single bell.

   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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. toll

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

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1. TOLL

   What does TOLL stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the TOLL acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

Matched Categories

1. • Fee
   • Levy
   • Ring
   • Value

How to pronounce toll?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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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. Kwon Young-jae:

   It was easy to update the page up until the beginning of last week, but with tens of new patients every few hours, it's starting to take a toll on us.

2. Stephen Carbone:

   The death toll goes up exponentially, throw in the owner trying to find the animal for even more chaos.

3. Andrew Constance:

   The NSW Government is serious about reducing our state's road toll and rolling out mobile phone detection cameras is another way we will do this.

4. Lawrence Yun:

   Mortgages now compared to just a few months ago are costing more money for home buyers, for a median-priced home, the price difference is $ 300 to $ 400 more per month, which is a hefty toll for a working family.

5. Mansukh Madaviya:

   Many people have said the Indian government is hiding the death toll, the Indian government simply compiles and publishes the figures sent to us from state governments.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=toll
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=toll
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/toll
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=toll
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=toll
7. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=toll
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html