Tollest vs Tellest - What's the difference?
tollest | tellest |
(archaic) (toll)
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.
(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.
(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
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).
(archaic) (tell)
(lb) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
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*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:
*:And in his lap a masse of coyne he told , / And turned vpsidowne, to feede his eye / A couetous desire with his huge threasury.
*1875 , Hugh MacMillan, The Sunday Magazine :
*:Only He who made them can tell the number of the stars, and mark the place of each in the order of the one great dominant spiral.
(lb) To narrate.
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, title= (lb) To convey by speech; to say.
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, title= (lb) To instruct or inform.
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*Bible, (w) xii. 18
*:Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
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(lb) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
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*(Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)
*:He told her not to be frightened.
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*:Stability was restored, but once the re-entry propulsion was activated, the crew was told to prepare to come home before the end of their only day in orbit.
(lb) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
(lb) To reveal.
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(lb) To be revealed.
*1990 , (Stephen Coonts), Under Siege, 1991 (Pocket Books) edition, ISBN 0671742949, p.409:
*:Cherry looks old, Mergenthaler told himself. His age is telling . Querulous — that's the word. He's become a whining, querulous old man absorbed with trivialities.
(lb) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
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*1859 (John Stuart Mill), (On Liberty)
*:Opinion ought [… to give] merited honour to every one, whatever opinion he may holdkeeping nothing back which tells', or can be supposed to ' tell , in their favour.
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, title= A reflexive, often habitual behavior, (especially) one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
That which is told; tale; account.
* Walpole
(internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
(archaeology) A mound, originally in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between tollest and tellest
is that tollest is (archaic) (toll) while tellest is (archaic) (tell).As verbs the difference between tollest and tellest
is that tollest is (archaic) (toll) while tellest is (archaic) (tell).tollest
English
Verb
(head)toll
English
(wikipedia toll)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), (m), . Alternate etymology derives (etyl) (m), from .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* death toll * toll road * toll bridge * toll booth * * tollgateReferences
Verb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
Probably the same as Etymology 3. Possibly related to or influenced by (toil)Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
*Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), (m), variation of (m), .Alternative forms
* tole, toalVerb
(en verb)Synonyms
* (to lure animals) , lureEtymology 4
From (etyl) .tellest
English
Verb
(head)tell
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ((etyl) telja). More at tale.Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.}}
Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia, passage=But England's superior fitness told in the second half, with Delon Armitage, Manu Tuilagi and Chris Ashton (two) going over for tries to secure a bonus-point win.}}
Synonyms
* (enumerate) count * (narrate) narrate, recount, relateAntonyms
* (to instruct or inform) askDerived terms
* all told * tell against * tell all * tell-all * tell off * tell on * tell-tale / telltale * tell tales * tell tales out of school * tellerNoun
(en noun)- I am at the end of my tell .