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toll
toll1 / tōl/ • n. 1. a charge payable for permission to use a particular bridge or road: turnpike tolls | [as adj.] a toll bridge. ∎ a charge for a long-distance telephone call. 2. [in sing.] the number of deaths, casualties, or injuries arising from particular circumstances, such as a natural disaster, conflict, or accident: the toll of dead and injured mounted. ∎ the cost or damage resulting from something: the environmental toll of the policy has been high. • v. [tr.] [usu. as n.] (tolling) charge a toll for the use of (a bridge or road): the report advocates expressway tolling. PHRASES: take its toll (or take a heavy toll) have an adverse effect, esp. so as to cause damage, suffering, or death: years of pumping iron have taken their toll on his body. toll2 • v. [intr.] (of a bell) sound with a slow, uniform succession of strokes, as a signal or announcement: the bells of the cathedral began to toll for evening service. ∎ [tr.] cause (a bell) to make such a sound. ∎ (of a bell) announce or mark (the time, a service, or a person's death): the bell of St. Mary's began to toll the curfew. • n. [in sing.] a single ring of a bell. |
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"toll." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "toll." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-toll.html "toll." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-toll.html |
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Tolls Exemption Act
TOLLS EXEMPTION ACTTOLLS EXEMPTION ACT, an act of Congress, 24 August 1912, exempting American vessels in coast-wise traffic from the payment of tolls on the Panama Canal. The Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1901 had provided that the canal should be free and open to the ships of all nations without discrimination, so the act raised a serious moral and legal question. President Woodrow Wilson, on 5 March 1914, eloquently requested repeal as a matter of sound diplomacy and international good faith. Prominent Republicans seconded his efforts, and the act was repealed a few weeks later. Congress, however, expressly denied any relinquishment of the right to grant exemptions to coastwise shipping. BIBLIOGRAPHYCollin, Richard H. Theodore Roosevelt's Caribbean: The Panama Canal, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Latin American Context. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. W. A.Robinson/c. w. See alsoHay-Pauncefote Treaties ; Panama Canal ; Panama Canal Treaty . |
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"Tolls Exemption Act." Dictionary of American History. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Tolls Exemption Act." Dictionary of American History. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401804222.html "Tolls Exemption Act." Dictionary of American History. 2003. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401804222.html |
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toll1 payment for a privilege OE.; charge for a right of passage XV. OE. toll = OHG. zol (G. zoll), ON. tollr m., with by-forms OE. toln (†tolne XI–XV), OS. tolna fem. — medL. tolōneum, alt. of late L. telōneum — Gr. telónion toll-house, f. telónēs collector of taxes, f. télos toll, tax.
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T. F. HOAD. "toll." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "toll." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-toll.html T. F. HOAD. "toll." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-toll.html |
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Toll
TOLLA sum of money paid for the right to use a road, highway, or bridge. To postpone or suspend. For example, to toll astatute of limitationsmeans to postpone the running of the time period it specifies. |
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"Toll." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Toll." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3437704401.html "Toll." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3437704401.html |
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toll
toll2 (of a bell or the ringer) give forth a sound from a bell repeated at regular intervals XV. perh. spec. use of toll pull, usu. fig. entice, OE. *tollian, rel. to fortyllan seduce.
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T. F. HOAD. "toll." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "toll." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-toll1.html T. F. HOAD. "toll." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-toll1.html |
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Tolla clump of trees, 1644. |
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"Toll." Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. 1985. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Toll." Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. 1985. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2505301599.html "Toll." Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. 1985. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2505301599.html |
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•barcarole, bole, bowl, cajole, coal, Cole, condole, console, control, dhole, dole, droll, enrol (US enroll), extol, foal, goal, hole, Joel, knoll, kohl, mol, mole, Nicole, parol, parole, patrol, pole, poll, prole, rôle, roll, scroll, Seoul, shoal, skoal, sole, soul, stole, stroll, thole, Tirol, toad-in-the-hole, toll, troll, vole, whole
•Creole
•carriole, dariole
•cabriole • capriole
•aureole, gloriole, oriole
•wassail-bowl • fishbowl • dustbowl
•punchbowl • rocambole • farandole
•girandole • manhole • rathole
•armhole • arsehole • hellhole
•keyhole, kneehole
•peephole
•sinkhole • pinhole • cubbyhole
•hidey-hole • pigeonhole
•eyehole, spyhole
•foxhole
•knothole, pothole
•borehole, Warhol
•porthole • soundhole • blowhole
•stokehole • bolthole • loophole
•lughole, plughole
•chuckhole • buttonhole • bunghole
•earhole • waterhole • wormhole
•charcoal • caracole • Seminole
•pinole
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"toll." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "toll." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-toll.html "toll." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-toll.html |
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