1. toll(n = noun.possession) - a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance);
is a kind of fee
Derived form verb toll2
2. toll(n = noun.attribute) cost, price - 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?"
is a kind of value
has particulars: death toll
3. toll(n = noun.event) bell - the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells"
is a kind of sound
has particulars: knell, angelus, angelus bell
Derived form verb toll1
1. toll(v = verb.perception) - ring slowly; "For whom the bell tolls"
is one way to knell, ring
Derived forms noun toll3, noun toller1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
2. toll(v = verb.possession) - charge a fee for using; "Toll the bridges into New York City"
is one way to impose, levy
Derived form noun toll1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
To take away; to vacate; to annul. [1913 Webster]
1. To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole. [1913 Webster]
2. To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell. Hood. [1913 Webster]
3. To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend. Shak. [1913 Webster]
"Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour." [1913 Webster]
4. To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing. [1913 Webster]
"When hollow murmurs of their evening bells
Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells." [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
"The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll." [1913 Webster]
"Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell." [1913 Webster]
The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated. [1913 Webster]
1. 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. [1913 Webster]
2. A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor. [1913 Webster]
3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding. [1913 Webster]
1. To pay toll or tallage. Shak. [1913 Webster]
2. To take toll; to raise a tax. [1913 Webster]
"Well could he [the miller] steal corn and toll thrice." [1913 Webster]
"No Italian priest
Shall tithe or toll in our dominions." [1913 Webster]
To collect, as a toll. Shak. [1913 Webster]
toll, n.
1 a charge payable for permission to pass a barrier or use a bridge or road etc.
2 the cost or damage caused by a disaster, battle, etc., or incurred in an achievement (death toll).
3 US a charge for a long distance telephone call.
Idiom:
take its toll be accompanied by loss or injury etc. toll-bridge a bridge at which a toll is charged. toll-gate a gate preventing passage until a toll is paid. toll-house a house at a toll-gate or -bridge, used by a toll-collector. toll-road a road maintained by the tolls collected on it.
toll, v. & n.
--v.
1 a intr. (of a bell) sound with a slow uniform succession of strokes. b tr. ring (a bell) in this way. c tr. (of a bell) announce or mark (a death etc.) in this way.
2 tr. strike (the hour).
--n.
1 the act of tolling.
2 a stroke of a bell.
Etymology:
ME, special use of (now dial.) toll entice, pull, f. an OE root -tyllan (recorded in fortyllan seduce)
VB be active, busy oneself in, stir, stir about, stir one's stumps, bestir oneself, rouse oneself, speed, hasten, peg away, lay about one, bustle, fuss, raise up, kick up a dust, push, make a push, make a fuss, make a stir, go ahead, push forward, fight one's way, elbow one's way, make progress, toll, plod, persist, keep up the ball, keep the pot boiling, look sharp, have all one's eyes about one, rise, arouse oneself, hustle, get up early, be about, keep moving, steal a march, kill two birds with one stone, seize the opportunity, lose no time, not lose a moment, make the most of one's time, not suffer the grass to grow under one's feet, improve the shining hour, make short work of, dash off, make haste, do one's best take pains, do wonders, work wonders, have many irons in the fire, have one's hands full, have much on one's hands, have other things to do, have other fish to fry, be busy, not have a moment to spare, not have a moment that one can call one's own, have one's fling, run the round of, go all lengths, stick at nothing, run riot, outdo, overdo, overact, overlay, overshoot the mark, make a toil of a pleasure, have a hand in, take an active part, put in one's oar, have a finger in the pie, mix oneself up with, trouble, one's head about, intrigue, agitate, tamper with, meddle, moil, intermeddle, interfere, interpose, obtrude, poke one's nose in, thrust one's nose in.
N price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure, demand, damage, fare, hire, wages, value, dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess, sess, tallage, levy, abkari, capitation tax, poll tax, doomage, likin, gabel, gabelle, gavel, octroi, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tithe, tenths, exactment, ransom, salvage, tariff, brokerage, wharfage, freightage, bill, shot, priced, to the tune of, ad valorem, dutiable, mercenary, venal, no penny no paternoster, point d'argent point de Suisse, no longer pipe no longer dance, no song no supper, if you dance you have to pay the piper, you get what you pay for, there's no such thing as a free lunch, one may have it for, a bon marche.
VB roll, drum, rumble, rattle, clatter, patter, clack, bombinate, hum, trill, shake, chime, peal, toll, tick, beat, drum in the ear, din in the ear.
death toll, toll agent, toll call, toll collector, toll house cookie, toll line, toll plaza, toll taker