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Tole vs. Toll — What's the Difference?

Tole vs. Toll — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Tole and Toll

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Tole

Painted, enamelled, or lacquered tin plate used to make decorative domestic objects
Colourfully painted tole accessories

Toll

A charge payable to use a bridge or road
Motorway tolls
A toll bridge

Tole

Tole is one of the woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Debub Mirab Shewa Zone, it is bordered on the southwest by Kokir, on the west by Becho, on the northwest by Elu, on the northeast by the Awash which separates it from Alem Gena, and on the east and south by Kersana Kondaltiti.

Toll

The number of deaths or casualties arising from a natural disaster, conflict, accident, etc.
The toll of dead and injured mounted

Tole

A lacquered or enameled metalware, usually gilded and elaborately painted.
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Toll

A single ring of a bell
She heard the Cambridge School bell utter a single toll

Tole

A decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded.

Toll

Charge a toll for the use of (a bridge or road)
The report advocates motorway tolling

Tole

(historical) A portion of grain paid to the miller who grinds it.

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

Tole

(archaic) To entice; to allure or attract.
It is often necessary to tole a big stag, to induce him to leave the hind ...

Toll

A fixed charge or tax for a privilege, especially for passage across a bridge or along a road.

Tole

To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait.
Whatever you observe him to be more frighted at then he should, tole him on to by insensible degrees, till at last he masters the difficulty.

Toll

A charge for a service, such as a telephone call to another country.

Tole

Enameled or lacquered metalware (usually gilded and elaborately painted); popular in the 18th century;
The Pennsylvania Dutch tole watering can might be a reproduction but it looks convincing

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).

Toll

The act of tolling.

Toll

The sound of a bell being struck.

Toll

To exact as a toll.

Toll

To charge a fee for using (a structure, such as a bridge).

Toll

To sound (a large bell) slowly at regular intervals.

Toll

To announce or summon by tolling.

Toll

To sound in slowly repeated single tones.

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.

Toll

Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
The war has taken its toll on the people.

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.

Toll

(US) A tollbooth.
We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers.

Toll

A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.

Toll

A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

Toll

The act or sound of tolling.

Toll

(transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges.

Toll

(ambitransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).

Toll

(transitive) To take as a toll.

Toll

To pay a toll or tallage.

Toll

(ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
Martin tolled the great bell every day.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls.

Toll

(transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.
The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers.

Toll

(transitive) To announce by tolling.
The bells tolled the King’s death.

Toll

(figuratively) To make a sound as if made by a bell.

Toll

To draw; pull; tug; drag.

Toll

(transitive) To tear in pieces.

Toll

(transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
Hou many virgins shal she tolle and drawe to þe Lord - "Life of Our Lady"

Toll

(transitive) To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).

Toll

To take away; to vacate; to annul.

Toll

(legal) To suspend.
The defendant’s wrongful conduct.

Toll

To take away; to vacate; to annul.

Toll

To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.

Toll

To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.

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.

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.

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.

Toll

To pay toll or tallage.

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.

Toll

To collect, as a toll.

Toll

The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.

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.

Toll

A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.

Toll

A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

Toll

A fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)

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?

Toll

The sound of a bell being struck;
Saved by the bell
She heard the distant toll of church bells

Toll

Ring slowly;
For whom the bell tolls

Toll

Charge a fee for using;
Toll the bridges into New York City

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