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Toll vs Fatality - What's the difference?

toll | fatality |

As nouns the difference between toll and fatality

is that toll is custom (duty collected at the borders) while fatality is the state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.

toll

English

(wikipedia toll)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), (m), . Alternate etymology derives (etyl) (m), from .

Noun

(en noun)
  • Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
  • 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.
  • (label) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
  • (label) A tollbooth.
  • A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
  • A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
    • Derived terms
    * death toll * toll road * toll bridge * toll booth * * tollgate

    References

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To impose a fee for the use of.
  • (label) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
  • * Shakespeare
  • (label) To take as a toll.
  • To pay a toll or tallage.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Etymology 2

    Probably the same as Etymology 3. Possibly related to or influenced by (toil)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or sound of tolling

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
  • * , Episode 12, The Cyclops
  • (label) To summon by ringing a bell.
  • * Dryden
  • (label) To announce by tolling.
  • * Beattie
    • Derived terms
    *

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) (m), (m), variation of (m), .

    Alternative forms

    * tole, toal

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To draw; pull; tug; drag.
  • (label) To tear in pieces.
  • (label) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
  • (label) To lure with bait (especially, fish and animals).
    • Synonyms
    * (to lure animals) , lure

    Etymology 4

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take away; to vacate; to annul.
  • (label) To suspend.

    • fatality

    English

    Noun

    (fatalities)
  • The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
  • Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.
  • That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
  • * William Wilkie Collins
    • What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities ?
  • Death.
  • An accident that causes death.
  • * 2011 , David Foster Wallace, The Pale King , page 13:
    • the whole thing felt like being in a near traffic fatality avoided by inches and later not being able to think of the whole thing lest you begin shaking...
  • (video games ) A move where one character kills another.

    • Synonyms

    * (state proceeding from destiny) inevitability * mortality