toll
noun
[ təʊl ]
• a charge payable to use a bridge or road.
• "motorway tolls"
• the number of deaths or casualties arising from a natural disaster, conflict, accident, etc.
• "the toll of dead and injured mounted"
Similar:
number,
count,
tally,
total,
running total,
sum total,
grand total,
sum,
score,
reckoning,
enumeration,
register,
record,
inventory,
list,
listing,
account,
roll,
roster,
index,
directory,
toll
verb
• charge a toll for the use of (a bridge or road).
• "the transport minister opposes tolling existing roads"
Origin:
Old English (denoting a charge, tax, or duty), from medieval Latin toloneum, alteration of late Latin teloneum, from Greek telōnion ‘toll house’, from telos ‘tax’. toll1 (sense 2 of the noun) (late 19th century) arose from the notion of paying a toll or tribute in human lives (to an adversary or to death).
toll
verb
• (with reference to a bell) sound or cause to sound with a slow, uniform succession of strokes, as a signal or announcement.
• "the cathedral bells began to toll for evening service"
Similar:
ring (out),
chime (out),
strike,
peal,
knell,
sound,
clash,
clang,
bong,
boom,
resound,
reverberate,
toll
noun
• a single ring of a bell.
• "she heard the Cambridge School bell utter a single toll"
Origin:
late Middle English: probably a special use of dialect toll ‘drag, pull’.
