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单词 tolzey
释义

toll2 /tōl/

noun
  1. A tax for the privilege of using a bridge or road, selling goods in a market, etc
  2. A portion of grain kept by a miller in payment for grinding
  3. A place where there is or was or might have been a building for collecting road tolls or tollbar, a road junction (Scot)
  4. The cost in damage, injury or lives
  5. A toll call
intransitive verb

To take or pay tolls

transitive verb
  1. To take toll of
  2. To take as a toll
ORIGIN: OE toll; cf Du tol, Ger Zoll; supposed to be from LL tolōneum, from Gr telōnion customs, from telos fulfilment, tax, etc; by some connected with tell, tale

tollˈable adjective

Subject to toll

tollˈage noun

  1. Payment of toll
  2. The right to charge a toll
  3. The amount paid as toll

tollˈer noun

A person who collects a toll

tolsel /tōlˈsel/, tolzey /-zi/ or tolsey /tolˈsi/ noun

Local names for a tolbooth or exchange (appar from OE seld seat, or sǣl hall)

tolbooth or tollbooth /tōlˈ, tolˈbooth, -boodh, also (Scot) -bəth/ noun

  1. An office where tolls are or were collected
  2. A town hall (Scot)
  3. A prison (Scot)
  4. Often a building combining a town hall and a prison (Scot)

toll bar noun

A movable bar across a road, etc, to stop travellers liable to pay a toll

tollˈbridge or tollˈgate noun

A bridge or gate where tolls are collected

toll call noun

  1. A short-distance telephone trunk call
  2. A long-distance telephone call at a charge above the local rate (N American)
  3. A long-distance telephone call to a place outside a free-dialling area (NZ)

tollˈdish noun

A dish for measuring the toll of grain in a mill

toll-freeˈ adjective and adverb

tollˈ-gatherer noun

  1. A person who collects a toll, eg at a tollbridge or tollgate
  2. A person who collects taxes

tollˈhouse noun

A house at a tollbridge, tollgate, etc used by the collector of tolls

tollˈman noun

  1. A person who collects tolls
  2. A person who collects taxes

tollˈway noun (N American)

A highway on which tolls are charged

take (a) toll of or take its toll on

  1. To inflict loss, hardship, pain, etc, on
  2. To have a deleterious effect on

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