Toll
The word toll has several meanings.
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- In the context of transportation:
- toll (road usage), a fee charged for the use of a piece of road transportation infrastructure
- toll road, a road for which road usage tolls are charged
- toll bridge, a bridge for which road usage tolls are charged
- toll tunnel, a tunnel for which road usage tolls are charged
- toll house, a place where road usage tolls are collected
- Electronic toll collection, high occupancy toll, shadow toll, toll revenue bond, and shunpiking.
- Toll Collect, a transportation support company in Germany;
- Toll Holdings, an Australian transportion company;
- Toll NZ, a trucking company in New Zealand;
- "toll" is sometimes used as a synonym for tariff.
- funeral tolling is the slow, solemn ringing of church bells at funerals.
"Do no ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee." - John Donne (1624) - For Whom the Bell Tolls, a novel by Ernest Hemmingway, and a major motion picture based on it:
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (film), a 1943 film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman based on the novel.
- Johan Christopher Toll (1743–1817), a Swedish statesman and soldier.
- Toll (gene) and toll-like receptor, in genetics.
- Toll is a German adjective meaning “great” or “rabid”.
- Toll House cookies, a brand of the Nestlé company
- Toll switching trunk in telephone communications systems
- Toll (telecommunications), refers to connection charges, for instance note trunk vs toll charging and toll-free telephone numbers.
- toll-treat, a process or procedure for handling metal ore before refining
- Tolling (law), a doctrine which allows for the pausing or delaying of the running of the period of time set forth by a statute of limitations.
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