tolled

Verb (1)

toll (third-person singular simple present tolls, present participle tolling, simple past and past participle tolled)

1. (transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
   • Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges.
2. (ambitransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
   • No Italian priest
     Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
3. (transitive) To take as a toll.
4. To pay a toll or tallage.
   • I will buy me a sonne in Law in a faire, and toule for this. Ile none of him.c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Verb (2)

toll (third-person singular simple present tolls, present participle tolling, simple past and past participle tolled)

1. (ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
   • Martin tolled the great bell every day.
2. (transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.
   • The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers.

See all 23 meanings of toll

Verb

tell (third-person singular simple present tells, present participle telling, simple past and past participle told or (dialectal or nonstandard) telled or tolled)

1. (transitive, archaic outside of idioms) To determine the number, amount, or value of [something].
   • All told, there were over a dozen. Can you tell time on a clock? He had untold wealth.

   Synonyms:

   count, reckon, enumerate

2. (intransitive, transitive) To notice, discern. (Roughly, "can tell" means "know" but with a sense of direct perception.)
   • I can tell that you're thrilled.
3. (intransitive, transitive) To pick up on a difference. (See tell apart for more.)
   • An expert can tell an original from a forgery.
4. (ditransitive, transitive) To narrate, to recount.
   • I want to tell a story; I want to tell you a story.

   Synonyms:

   narrate, recount, relate

5. (ditransitive, transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
   • Finally, someone told him the truth. He seems to like to tell lies.
6. (transitive) To instruct or inform.
   • Please tell me how to do it.

   Synonyms:

   advise

See all 20 meanings of tell