toll
US: /ˈtoʊɫ/
UK: /tˈəʊl/
UK: /tˈəʊl/
English Vietnamese dictionary
toll /toul/
- danh từ
- thuế qua đường, thuế qua cầu; thuế đậu bến; thuế chỗ ngồi (ở chợ...)
- phần thóc công xay (phần thóc giữ lại để cho tiền công xay)
- to take toll of
- (nghĩa bóng) lấy đi mất một phần lớn, tiêu diệt mất một phần lớn
- roat toll
- số người bị tai nạn xe cộ
- nội động từ
- thu thuế (cầu, đường, chợ...)
- nộp thuế (cầu, đường, chợ...)
- danh từ
- sự rung chuông
- tiếng chuông rung
- ngoại động từ
- rung, đánh, gõ (chuông...)
- to toll the bell: rung chuông
- rung, điểm (chuông đồng hồ...)
- the clock tolled midnight: đồng hồ điểm 12 giờ đêm
- rung chuông báo
- to toll someone's death: rung chuông báo tử người nào
- rung, đánh, gõ (chuông...)
- nội động từ
- rung, điểm (chuông đồng hồ...)
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun
1 [C] money that you pay to use a particular road or bridge: motorway tolls + a toll road / bridge
2 [C, usually sing.] the amount of damage or the number of deaths and injuries that are caused in a particular war, disaster, etc: The official death toll has now reached 7 000. + the war's growing casualty toll + Every hour, the news bulletin reported the mounting toll of casualties.
3 [sing.] the sound of a bell ringing with slow regular strokes
4 [C] (AmE) a charge for a telephone call that is calculated at a higher rate than a local call
Idioms: take a heavy toll (on sb/sth)
take its toll (on sb/sth) to have a bad effect on sb/sth; to cause a lot of damage, deaths, suffering, etc: Illness had taken a heavy toll on her. + The recession is taking its toll on the housing markets.
+ verb
when a bell tolls or sb tolls it, it is rung slowly many times, especially as a sign that sb has died: [V] The Abbey bell tolled for those killed in the war. + Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. + [VN] The bell tolled the hour. + (figurative) The revolution tolled the death knell (= signalled the end) for the Russian monarchy.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 ring, peal, chime, strike, sound:
The clock tower bell tolled three.
n.
2 ring, ringing, peal, pealing, chime, chiming, striking, sound, sounding, tolling, knell:
Each toll of the bell marked the death of another victim.
n.
1 charge, fee, dues, assessment, tariff; excise, duty, impost, levy, tribute:
New motorways will be funded by means of a toll on traffic using them.
2 loss, penalty, cost, damage(s); exaction:
The death toll from the earthquake reached 50,000.
Collocation dictionary
1 money that you pay to use a road, bridge, etc.
ADJ.
motorway, road
VERB + TOLL
charge, collect, exact, impose, levy
the possibility of imposing tolls on some motorways
| pay
TOLL + NOUN
bridge, motorway, road | booth | charge
2 amount of damage done/number of people killed
ADJ.
great, heavy, terrible, tragic | casualty, death, injury | human
VERB + TOLL
take
The pressure of fame can take a terrible toll. The recession is taking its toll.
TOLL + VERB
mount, rise
The death toll from yesterday's crash is still rising.
| reach sth
The casualty toll could reach 200.
PREP.
~ on
Illness has taken a heavy toll on her.
Concise English dictionary
tolls|tolled|tollingtəʊl
noun
+a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)
+value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
+the sound of a bell being struck
verb
+ring slowly
+charge a fee for using
