toll

effet néfaste, coût

Dommage ou souffrance causés par une expérience ou une situation difficile.

En anglais simple : The harm or suffering caused by a difficult experience or situation.

• Stress takes a toll on your health.
• Years of hard work took their toll.
• She felt the emotional toll of caring for him.

Comment l'utiliser : take a toll on someone/something (The long journey took a toll on her body.)

Synonymes : cost, damage

Expressions courantes : take a toll, heavy toll, emotional toll

péage

Somme à payer pour utiliser une route, un pont, un tunnel ou un autre service.

En anglais simple : Money you pay to use a road, bridge, tunnel, or other service.

• We paid a toll at the bridge.
• The tunnel toll has increased.
• Do you have enough cash for the toll?

Synonymes : fee, charge

Expressions courantes : pay a toll, road toll, toll booth

bilan, pertes

Nombre de morts ou importance des dégâts causés par une catastrophe.

En anglais simple : The number of deaths or the amount of damage caused by a disaster.

• The death toll rose overnight.
• Officials are assessing the toll from the flood.
• The war took a terrible toll on the population.

Synonymes : losses, damage

Expressions courantes : death toll, heavy toll, toll from something

glas, sonnerie

Son lent et répété d’une grande cloche, souvent pour un enterrement.

En anglais simple : The slow, repeated ringing of a large bell, often for a funeral.

• We heard the toll of a bell.
• The church bell’s toll broke the silence.
• A solemn toll marked the end of the funeral.

Synonymes : ringing, knell

Expressions courantes : toll of something, funeral toll, solemn toll

frais de traitement

Somme versée à une entreprise pour transformer des matériaux appartenant à quelqu’un d’autre.

En anglais simple : Money paid to a company for processing materials owned by someone else.

• The refinery charges a toll for processing ore.
• Our contract sets the toll per tonne.
• The owner paid a toll to have the metal processed.

Synonymes : processing fee

Expressions courantes : processing toll, refining toll, pay a toll

sonner

Sonner lentement et à plusieurs reprises, en parlant d’une grande cloche, ou la faire sonner ainsi.

En anglais simple : To ring a large bell slowly and repeatedly, or to make it ring this way.

• The church bell tolled.
• They tolled the bell for the dead.
• We heard bells tolling at midnight.

Comment l'utiliser : toll for someone (The bells tolled for the victims.)

Synonymes : ring, knell

Expressions courantes : toll a bell, toll for someone

soumettre à un péage

Faire payer l’utilisation d’une route, d’un pont ou d’une installation semblable.

En anglais simple : To make people pay to use a road, bridge, or similar facility.

• The city plans to toll the bridge.
• They tolled the highway to fund repairs.
• Will the government toll this tunnel?

Synonymes : charge for

Expressions courantes : toll a bridge, toll a road, toll a tunnel

appeler en sonnant

Faire venir des personnes dans un lieu en sonnant une cloche.

En anglais simple : To call people to a place by ringing a bell.

• The bell tolled the workers home.
• They tolled the villagers to evening prayers.
• A monk tolled everyone back to the chapel.

Comment l'utiliser : toll someone to something (They tolled the workers to the evening service.)

Synonymes : summon, call

Expressions courantes : toll someone back, toll someone home