Big vs. Toll

Difference Between Big and Toll
Big➦
of considerable size or extent
big staff cuts
big buildings
her big hazel eyes
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Toll➦
a charge payable to use a bridge or road
motorway tolls
a toll bridge
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Big➦
of considerable importance or seriousness
it's a big decision
his biggest problem is money
he made a big mistake
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Toll➦
the number of deaths or casualties arising from a natural disaster, conflict, accident, etc.
the toll of dead and injured mounted
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Big➦
generous
‘I'm inclined to take pity on you.’ ‘That's big of you!’
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Toll➦
a single ring of a bell
she heard the Cambridge School bell utter a single toll
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Big➦
praise or recommend something highly
the record's been on the streets a while now, but it's still worth bigging up
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Toll➦
charge a toll for the use of (a bridge or road)
the report advocates motorway tolling
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Big➦
the major league in a professional sport
the day he made it to the bigs, he forgot every minor league ballpark he ever played in
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Toll➦
(with reference to a bell) sound or cause to sound with a slow, uniform succession of strokes, as a signal or announcement
the priest began tolling the bell
the cathedral bells began to toll for evening service
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Big➦
Of considerable size, number, quantity, magnitude, or extent; large.
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Toll➦
A fixed charge or tax for a privilege, especially for passage across a bridge or along a road.
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Big➦
Having great strength or force
a big wind.
in a big rage.
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Toll➦
A charge for a service, such as a telephone call to another country.
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Big➦
Of great significance; momentous
a big decision.
a big victory.
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Toll➦
An amount or extent of loss or destruction, as of life, health, or property
"Poverty and inadequate health care take their toll on the quality of a community's health" (Los Angeles Times).
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Big➦
Mature or grown-up
big enough to take the bus by herself.
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Toll➦
The act of tolling.
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Big➦
Older or eldest. Used especially of a sibling
My big brother is leaving for college next week.
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Toll➦
The sound of a bell being struck.
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Big➦
Filled up; brimming over
felt big with love.
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Toll➦
To exact as a toll.
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Big➦
Bountiful; generous
had a big heart.
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Toll➦
To charge a fee for using (a structure, such as a bridge).
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Big➦
Pregnant
big with child.
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Toll➦
To sound (a large bell) slowly at regular intervals.
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Big➦
Having or exercising considerable authority, control, or influence
a big official.
a big chief.
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Toll➦
To announce or summon by tolling.
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Big➦
Conspicuous in position, wealth, or importance; prominent
a big figure in the peace movement.
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Toll➦
To sound in slowly repeated single tones.
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Big➦
Loud and firm; resounding
a big voice.
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Toll➦
A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
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Big➦
(Informal) Widely liked, used, or practiced; popular
"The Minneapolis indie-rock band was big in the blogosphere, beloved by hipsters, and unknown to pretty much everyone else" (Robert Levine).
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Toll➦
Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
The war has taken its toll on the people.
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Big➦
(Informal) Self-important; cocky
You're too big for your own good.
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Toll➦
(business) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending.
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Big➦
In a pretentious or boastful way
talked big about the new job.
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Toll➦
(US) A tollbooth.
We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers.
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Big➦
With considerable success
made it big with their recent best-selling album.
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Toll➦
A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
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Big➦
In a thorough or unmistakable way; emphatically
failed big at the box office.
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Toll➦
A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
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Big➦
Of great size, large.
Elephants are big animals, and they eat a lot.
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Toll➦
The act or sound of tolling.
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Big➦
(informal) Fat.
Gosh, she is big!
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Toll➦
(transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges.
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Big➦
Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
She was big with child.
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Toll➦
(ambitransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
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Big➦
(informal) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.
Whoa, Nadia has gotten pretty big since she hit puberty.
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Toll➦
(transitive) To take as a toll.
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Big➦
(informal) Adult; (of a child) older.
Kids should get help from big people if they want to use the kitchen.
We were just playing, and then some big kids came and chased us away.
She did it all on her own like a big girl.
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Toll➦
To pay a toll or tallage.
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Big➦
Old, mature. Used to imply that somebody is too old for something, or acting immaturely.
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Toll➦
(ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
Martin tolled the great bell every day.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls.
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Big➦
.informal Mature, conscientious, principled; generous.
That's very big of you; thank you!
I tried to be the bigger person and just let it go, but I couldn't help myself.
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Toll➦
(transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.
The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers.
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Big➦
(informal) Important or significant.
What's so big about that? I do it all the time.
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Toll➦
(transitive) To announce by tolling.
The bells tolled the King’s death.
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Big➦
Popular.
That style is very big right now in Europe, especially among teenagers.
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Toll➦
(figuratively) To make a sound as if made by a bell.
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Big➦
(of a city) Populous.
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Toll➦
To draw; pull; tug; drag.
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Big➦
(informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns
You are a big liar.
Why are you in such a big hurry?
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Toll➦
(transitive) To tear in pieces.
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Big➦
Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.
There were concerns about the ethics of big pharma.
big money
Big Tech, Big Steel (large or influential tech or steel companies)
Big Science (science performed by large terms, of large scope, with government or corporate funding)
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Toll➦
(transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
Hou many virgins shal she tolle and drawe to þe Lord - "Life of Our Lady"
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Big➦
Enthusiastic (about).
I'm not big on the idea, but if you want to go ahead with it, I won't stop you.
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Toll➦
(transitive) To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
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Big➦
In a loud manner.
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Toll➦
To take away; to vacate; to annul.
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Big➦
In a boasting manner.
He's always talking big, but he never delivers.
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Toll➦
(legal) To suspend.
The defendant’s wrongful conduct.
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Big➦
In a large amount or to a large extent.
He won big betting on the croquet championship.
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Toll➦
To take away; to vacate; to annul.
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Big➦
On a large scale, expansively.
You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.
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Toll➦
To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.
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Big➦
Hard.
He hit him big and the guy just crumpled.
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Toll➦
To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.
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Big➦
An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
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Toll➦
To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.
Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour.
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Big➦
(in the plural) The big leagues, big time.
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Toll➦
To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.
When hollow murmurs of their evening bellsDismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells.
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Big➦
(university slang) A initiated member of a sorority who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).
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Toll➦
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.
The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll.
Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell.
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Big➦
(BDSM) The participant in ageplay who acts out the older role.
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Toll➦
To pay toll or tallage.
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Big➦
One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.
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Toll➦
To take toll; to raise a tax.
Well could he [the miller] steal corn and toll thrice.
No Italian priestShall tithe or toll in our dominions.
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Big➦
To inhabit; occupy.
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Toll➦
To collect, as a toll.
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Big➦
To locate oneself.
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Toll➦
The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.
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Big➦
To build; erect; fashion.
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Toll➦
A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.
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Big➦
To dwell; have a dwelling.
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Toll➦
A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
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Big➦
Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.
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Toll➦
A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
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Big➦
Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; - often figuratively.
[Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome.
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Toll➦
a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)
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Big➦
Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.
God hath not in heaven a bigger argument.
I talked big to them at first.
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Toll➦
value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something;
the cost in human life was enormous
the price of success is hard work
what price glory?
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Big➦
Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.
"Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg."
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Toll➦
the sound of a bell being struck;
saved by the bell
she heard the distant toll of church bells
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Big➦
To build.
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Toll➦
ring slowly;
For whom the bell tolls
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Big➦
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent;
a large city
set out for the big city
a large sum
a big (or large) barn
a large family
big businesses
a big expenditure
a large number of newspapers
a big group of scientists
large areas of the world
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Toll➦
charge a fee for using;
Toll the bridges into New York City
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Big➦
significant;
graduation was a big day in his life
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Big➦
of very great significance;
deciding to drop the atom bomb was a very big decision
a momentous event
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Big➦
conspicuous in position or importance;
a big figure in the movement
big man on campus
he's very large in financial circles
a prominent citizen
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Big➦
very intense;
a bad headache
in a big rage
had a big (or bad) shock
a bad earthquake
a bad storm
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Big➦
loud and firm;
a big voice
big bold piano sounds
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Big➦
prodigious;
big spender
big eater
heavy investor
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Big➦
(of animals) fully developed;
an adult animal
a grown woman
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Big➦
marked by intense physical force;
a big wind
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Big➦
feeling self-importance;
too big for his britches
had a swelled head
he was swelled with pride
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Big➦
older brother or sister;
big sister
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Big➦
exhibiting self-importance;
big talk
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Big➦
generous and understanding and tolerant;
a heart big enough to hold no grudges
that's very big of you to be so forgiving
a large and generous spirit
a large heart
magnanimous toward his enemies
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Big➦
given or giving freely;
was a big tipper
the bounteous goodness of God
bountiful compliments
a freehanded host
a handsome allowance
Saturday's child is loving and giving
a liberal backer of the arts
a munificent gift
her fond and openhanded grandfather
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Big➦
in an advanced stage of pregnancy;
was big with child
was great with child
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Big➦
extremely well;
his performance went over big
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Big➦
in a boastful manner;
he talked big all evening
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Big➦
on a grand scale;
think big
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Big➦
in a major way;
the play failed big at the box office
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