Difference between Toll and Bell

What is the difference between Toll and Bell?

Toll as a noun is a fee for using something, esp. of roads and bridges while Bell as a noun is an object made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.

Toll

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A fee for using something, esp. of roads and bridges Loss or damage incurred through a disaster The act or sound of tolling

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To impose a fee for the use of. To levy a toll on (someone). To take as a toll. To make the noise of a bell To ring a bell slowly and repeatedly To announce by tolling To suspend To entice.

Example sentence: There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.

Bell

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An object made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.a telephone callA signal at a school that tells the students when it's time to change classes during the day.The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To attach a bell to.To bellow or roar.To shape so that flares out like a bell.

Example sentence: The one thing about me, if it is a 15-minute fight, I'm fighting every one of them 15 minutes. And if it's a 25-minute fight, I'll be fighting all 25 until the bell rings.

We hope you now know whether to use Toll or Bell in your sentence.

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