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Toll vs Tinkle - What's the difference?

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Toll is a related term of tinkle.


As nouns the difference between toll and tinkle

is that toll is custom (duty collected at the borders) while tinkle is a light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.

As a verb tinkle is

to make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.

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.

    • tinkle

    English

    Verb

    (tinkl)
  • To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
    • The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table.
  • * Dodsley
    • The sprightly horse / Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.
  • (intransitive, informal, juvenile) To urinate.
  • To cause to tinkle.
  • To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
    • The butler tinkled dinner.
  • To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
  • * Dryden
    • And his ears tinkled , and the colour fled.

    Related terms

    * tinkle the ivories

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
  • * 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) , ch. 2:
    • At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. . . . There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
  • (UK, informal) A telephone call.
    • Give me a tinkle when you arrive.
  • (informal, euphemism) An act of urination.