Toll

Toll

The word toll has several meanings.

*In the context of transportation:
**toll road, toll bridge, toll tunnel, and toll house, where money is collected in return for the use of the facility.
**Electronic toll collection, high occupancy toll, shadow toll, toll revenue bond, and shunpiking.
**Toll Collect, a transportation support company in Germany;
**Toll Holdings, an Australian transportion company;
**Toll NZ, a trucking company in New Zealand;

*"toll" is sometimes used as a synonym for tariff.
*funeral tolling is the slow, solemn ringing of church bells at funerals.
"Do no ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee." - John Donne (1624)
* For Whom the Bell Tolls, a novel by Ernest Hemmingway, and a major motion picture based on it:
* For Whom the Bell Tolls (film), a 1943 film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman based on the novel.
*Johan Christopher Toll (1743–1817), a Swedish statesman and soldier.
*Toll (gene) and toll-like receptor, in genetics.
*Toll is German for "great".
*Toll House cookies, a brand of the Nestlé company
*Toll switching trunk in telephone communications systems
*Toll (telecommunications), refers to connection charges, for instance note trunk vs toll charging and toll-free telephone numbers.
*toll-treat, a process or procedure for handling metal ore before refining
*Tolling (law), a doctrine which allows for the pausing or delaying of the running of the period of time set forth by a statute of limitations.


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  • toll! — toll! …   Deutsch Wörterbuch

  • toll — 1 n [Old English, tax or fee paid for a liberty or privilege, ultimately from Late Latin telonium custom house, from Greek tolōnion, from telōnēs collector of tolls, from telos tax, toll]: a charge for the use of a transportation route or… …   Law dictionary

  • Toll — Toll, n. [OE. tol, AS. toll; akin to OS. & D. tol, G. zoll, OHG. zol, Icel. tollr, Sw. tull, Dan. told, and also to E. tale; originally, that which is counted out in payment. See {Tale} number.] 1. A tax paid for some liberty or privilege,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Toll — steht für: Toll!, eine satirische Rubrik des TV Politmagazins Frontal21 Toll Holdings, ein australisches Transportunternehmen Toll Rail, ehemalige neuseeländische Bahngesellschaft verrückt für ein Stückmaß, siehe Toll (Einheit) Toll ist der… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Toll — Toll, er, este, adj. & adv. ein Wort, in welchem der Begriff einer Art eines ungestümen Geräusches der herrschende zu seyn scheinet. Es bedeutet überhaupt, ein solches ungestümes betäubendes Geräusch verursachend und darin gegründet. 1. Im… …   Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart

  • toll — [təʊl ǁ toʊl] noun 1. [countable] TRANSPORT the money you have to pay to use a particular road, bridge etc: • In parts of the USA tolls are charged for motorways. • Revenue is raised through customs duties and road tolls. 2. take a/​its toll on… …   Financial and business terms

  • toll — und voll: völlig betrunken; eine verstärkende Reimformel; ursprünglich ›Voll und toll‹, so noch oft bei Luther, z.B. ›An den christlichen Adel deutscher Nation‹ (Werke I, 298b). »ßo wurdenn sie zu Rom mercken, das, die deutschen nit alletzeit tol …   Das Wörterbuch der Idiome

  • toll — Adj. (Grundstufe) ugs.: sehr gut, ausgezeichnet Synonyme: super (ugs.), klasse (ugs.), fantastisch, himmlisch Beispiele: Das Buch ist wirklich toll. Sie sieht toll aus. toll Adj. (Aufbaustufe) unwahrscheinlich und deshalb kaum glaubhaft Synonyme …   Extremes Deutsch

  • Toll — Toll, v. t. [See {Tole}.] 1. To draw; to entice; to allure. See {Tole}. [1913 Webster] 2. [Probably the same word as toll to draw, and at first meaning, to ring in order to draw people to church.] To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • toll — Ⅰ. toll [1] ► NOUN 1) a charge payable to use a bridge or road or (N. Amer. ) for a long distance telephone call. 2) the number of deaths or casualties arising from an accident, disaster, etc. 3) the cost or damage resulting from something. ●… …   English terms dictionary

  • Toll — Toll, v. i. 1. To pay toll or tallage. [R.] Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To take toll; to raise a tax. [R.] [1913 Webster] Well could he [the miller] steal corn and toll thrice. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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