Toll
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The word toll has several meanings.
Road transportation infrastructure
Organisations
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Road transportation infrastructure
- "Toll" is sometimes used as a synonym for tariffTariffA tariff may be either tax on imports or exports , or a list or schedule of prices for such things as rail service, bus routes, and electrical usage ....
- Toll roadToll roadA toll road is a privately or publicly built road for which a driver pays a toll for use. Structures for which tolls are charged include toll bridges and toll tunnels. Non-toll roads are financed using other sources of revenue, most typically fuel tax or general tax funds...
, a road for which road usage tolls are charged - Toll plaza, a facility where tolls are collected, on modern toll roads, tunnels, and bridges
- Toll bridgeToll bridgeA toll bridge is a bridge over which traffic may pass upon payment of a toll, or fee.- History :The practice of collecting tolls on bridges probably harks back to the days of ferry crossings where people paid a fee to be ferried across stretches of water. As boats became impractical to carry large...
, a bridge for which road usage tolls are charged - Toll tunnelToll tunnelA toll tunnel is a special road tunnel whose construction and/or maintenance costs are in part recouped through a toll charged for passing through it. In some instances, tolls have been removed after retirement of the toll revenue bonds issued to raise funds for construction and/or operation of the...
, a tunnel for which road usage tolls are charged - Toll houseToll houseA tollhouse or toll house is a building with accommodation for a toll collector, beside a tollgate on a toll road or canal. Many tollhouses were built by turnpike trusts in England, Wales and Scotland during the 18th and early 19th centuries...
, a place where road usage tolls are collected - Electronic toll collectionElectronic toll collectionElectronic toll collection , an adaptation of military "identification friend or foe" technology, aims to eliminate the delay on toll roads by collecting tolls electronically. It is thus a technological implementation of a road pricing concept...
- High occupancy toll, a road pricing scheme that gives motorists in single-occupant vehicles access to high-occupancy vehicle lanes
- Shadow tollShadow tollShadow tolls are payments made by government to the private sector operator of a road based, at least in part, on the number of vehicles using the road. First proposed by the UK Government in 1993, they are currently in operation on some roads in the UK...
, payments made by government to the private sector operator of a road based on the number of vehicles using the road
- Toll road
Organisations
- Toll CollectToll CollectToll Collect GmbH is a German company that has developed and is running the tolling system for trucks on German motorways.The company is a consortium led by Daimler AG, Deutsche Telekom, and Cofiroute. It has won a bid for the development of a toll billing system from the German government. The...
, a transportation support company in Germany - Toll HoldingsToll HoldingsTOLL , properly TOLL Holdings Limited, is Australia's largest transport company, based in Melbourne, Victoria. The company has operations in road, rail, sea and air in 55 countries....
, an Australian transportation company - Toll NZToll NZToll Group Limited is a New Zealand trucking company. A subsidiary of the Australian company Toll Holdings, it has its headquarters in Auckland. It carries out operations by road and in the air, and formerly by rail and sea....
, a trucking company in New Zealand
Other
- Funeral tollFuneral tollChurch bells are sometimes rung slowly ' when a person dies or at funeral services.Church bells are rung in three basic ways: normal ringing, chiming, or tolling...
ing is the slow, solemn ringing of church bells at funerals - "For whom the bell tolls" is quoted from a poem Meditation 17 by John DonneJohn DonneJohn Donne 31 March 1631), English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest, is now considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are notable for their strong and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs,...
- For Whom the Bell TollsFor Whom the Bell TollsFor Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As an expert in the use of explosives, he is assigned to blow up a...
, a novel by Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 film in Technicolor based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff and Katina Paxinou. This was Ingrid Bergman's first technicolor film. Hemingway handpicked Cooper and Bergman for their roles. The film...
, a 1943 film based on the novel - Johan Christopher TollJohan Christopher TollCount Johan Christopher Toll , Swedish statesman and soldier, was born at Mölleröd in Scania Count Johan Christopher Toll (1 February 1743 – 21 May 1817), Swedish statesman and soldier, was born at Mölleröd in Scania Count Johan Christopher Toll (1 February 1743 – 21 May 1817), Swedish...
(1743–1817), a Swedish statesman and soldier - Toll (gene)Toll (gene)The Toll genes encode members of the Toll-like receptor class of proteins. "Toll" is German for "amazing" or "great". Mutants in the Toll gene were originally identified by 1995 Nobel Laureates Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric Wieschaus and colleagues in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster...
, encode members of the Toll-like receptor class of proteins - Toll-like receptorToll-like receptorToll-like receptors are a class of proteins that play a key role in the innate immune system. They are single, membrane-spanning, non-catalytic receptors that recognize structurally conserved molecules derived from microbes...
, a class of proteins that play a key role in the innate immune system - Toll House cookies
- Toll switching trunkToll switching trunkIn telecommunication, a toll switching trunk or toll connecting trunk is a trunk connecting one or more end offices to a toll center as the first stage of concentration for intertoll or long distance traffic....
, in telephone communications systems - Toll (telecommunications), refers to connection charges, for instance note trunk vs tollTrunk vs TollIn the US, under the purview of the Bell System, local telephone calls were flat rate; i.e., included in the subscribers' fixed fees except in a few big cities, and the term toll was adoptedfor long distance calls because they were subject to tolls....
charging and toll-free telephone numbers - Toll line, a telephone line for phone calls, connections, Internet, and social network communication
- Toll-treat, a process or procedure for handling metal ore before refining
- Tolling (law)Tolling (law)Tolling is a legal doctrine which allows for the pausing or delaying of the running of the period of time set forth by a statute of limitations. Certain traditional conditions will toll a statute of limitations:* Plaintiff is a minor....
, a doctrine which allows for the pausing or delaying of the running of the period of time set forth by a statute of limitations