to toll a bell

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• toll a bell — ring a bell …   English contemporary dictionary

• toll — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, from Vulgar Latin *tolonium, alteration of Late Latin telonium customhouse, from Greek tolōnion, from telōnēs collector of tolls, from telos tax, toll; perhaps akin to Greek tlēnai to bear Date …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• toll — 01. The bell [tolled], signaling that the church service was about to begin. 02. At our old school, they used to [toll] a bell when it was time to come in. 03. All across the country, church bells [tolled] in mourning for the death of the… …   Grammatical examples in English

• toll — toll1 [ toul ] noun * 1. ) singular MAINLY JOURNALISM the total number of people who have been killed or hurt a ) the total amount of harm or damage: the mounting toll of failed businesses 2. ) singular the loud slow repeated sound of a large… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• toll — I UK [təʊl] / US [toʊl] noun Word forms toll : singular toll plural tolls * 1) [countable] an amount of money that you pay to use a bridge or a road toll charges 2) a) [singular] mainly journalism the total number of people who have been killed… …   English dictionary

• toll — [təʊl] noun I 1) [C] an amount of money that you pay to use a bridge or road 2) [singular] the total number of people who have been killed or hurt The death toll from the earthquake is not yet known.[/ex] • take its toll; take a heavy toll to… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• bell, book and candle — Meaning The phrase that denoted excommunication from the Catholic church. Origin In the excommunication ceremony officials close the book, quench the candle and toll a bell, as for someone who had died …   Meaning and origin of phrases

• toll — 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… …   English World dictionary

• 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 — ‘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