toll

  • 11Toll — 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… …

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  • 12toll — toll·age; toll; toll·booth; toll·man; toll·er; ex·toll; …

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  • 13toll — toll1 [tōl] n. [ME < OE, akin to Ger zoll, ON tollr < MLowG tol < ML tolneum < VL * toloneum, toll(house), for L teloneum < Gr telōnion < telōnēs, tax collector < telos, tax, akin to tlēnai, to support, bear: for IE base see… …

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  • 14toll — ‘charge, payment’ [OE] and toll ‘ring a bell’ [15] are distinct words. The former was borrowed into Old English from medieval Latin tolōneum ‘place where tolls are collected’, an alteration of late Latin telōneum. This in turn was borrowed from… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 15toll — ‘charge, payment’ [OE] and toll ‘ring a bell’ [15] are distinct words. The former was borrowed into Old English from medieval Latin tolōneum ‘place where tolls are collected’, an alteration of late Latin telōneum. This in turn was borrowed from… …

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  • 16Toll — Toll, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tolled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tolling}.] 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… …

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  • 17Toll — Toll, v. t. To collect, as a toll. Shak. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 18Toll — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Gen implicado en el desarrollo dorso ventral de Drosophila melanogaster. Este gen pertenece al grupo de genes maternos (línea germinal). Codifica para un receptor de membrana (receptor toll) que es necesario para el… …

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  • 19toll — toll: Das westgerm. Adjektiv mhd. tol, dol, ahd. tol »dumm, töricht«, niederl. dol »toll, ausgelassen«, engl. dull »stumpf, unempfindlich; schwerfällig« gehört im Sinne von »getrübt, umnebelt, verwirrt« zu der unter ↑ Dunst behandelten Wortgruppe …

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  • 20toll — [n1] fee assessment, charge, cost, customs, demand, duty, exaction, expense, impost, levy, payment, price, rate, tariff, tax, tribute; concept 329 toll [n2] damage, deaths casualties, cost, expense, inroad, loss, losses, penalty, price; concept… …

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