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The word toll has several meanings.
In the context of transportation :
toll road , toll bridge , toll tunnel , and toll house , where money is collected in return for the use of the facility.
Electronic toll collection , high occupancy toll , shadow toll , toll revenue bond , and shunpiking .
Toll Collect , a transportation support company in Germany ;
Toll Holdings , an Australian transportion company;
Toll NZ , a trucking company in New Zealand ;
"toll" is sometimes used as a synonym for tariff .
funeral tolling is the slow, solemn ringing of church bells at funerals.
"Do no ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee." - John Donne (1624)
For Whom the Bell Tolls , a novel by Ernest Hemmingway , and a major motion picture based on it:
For Whom the Bell Tolls (film) , a 1943 film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman based on the novel.
Johan Christopher Toll (1743–1817), a Swedish statesman and soldier.
Toll (gene) and toll-like receptor , in genetics.
Toll is German for "great".
Toll House cookies , a brand of the Nestlé company
Toll switching trunk in telephone communications systems
Toll (telecommunications) , refers to connection charges, for instance note trunk vs toll charging and toll-free telephone numbers .
toll-treat , a process or procedure for handling metal ore before refining
Tolling (law) , a doctrine which allows for the pausing or delaying of the running of the period of time set forth by a statute of limitations .
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