What's the difference between chime and toll?

Chime


Definition:

  • (n.) See Chine, n., 3.
  • (n.) The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
  • (n.) A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions.
  • (n.) Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
  • (n.) To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
  • (n.) To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.
  • (n.) To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.
  • (n.) To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
  • (v. i.) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
  • (v. i.) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 7.46am BST Thanks for all the comments on the blog this week - terrific how you are chiming in.
  • (2) They need tents very badly,” said Kempo Chimed Tsering.
  • (3) But one reason is that they chime with those of a powerful section of the political and security establishment.
  • (4) Because her achievements chime with bigger narratives.
  • (5) The software is very new.” The car will chime to remind drivers to put their hands back on the wheel, but that hasn’t stopped people experimenting – with hair-raising effects.
  • (6) Martin pantomimes the motion, holing up his fingers dramatically, and Malhotra chimes in with a “ding!” when the phantom bullet falls.
  • (7) Clegg's words chime with a strategy of highlighting differences with the Tories as the election approaches.
  • (8) Many of the causes backed by the brothers clearly chime with their own self-interests.
  • (9) He also said it was up to politicians to dismiss the 'lightweight sloganeering of PR men', an apparent reference to the way in which cabinet ministers are asked to chime in with the government over its implementation of a long-term economic plan.
  • (10) Two thirds of the 415 million people around the world who have type 2 diabetes live in cities That chimes with an important study published by Toronto Public Health, which looked into the increasing incidence of mental health problems and suicides in the city’s population.
  • (11) The government’s upcoming National Innovation Plan needs to address this vital issue.” Month-on-month figures showed a slight improvement in activity, chiming with official data that shows a recent upturn in manufacturing output.
  • (12) This is a very big project for me and my family.” But his reflections on what he has seen so far chime with Bravo’s concern about an absence of Darwinism in Qatari football.
  • (13) She is intrigued by the way houses either chime with you or don't.
  • (14) I am very happy to have this particular candidate chime in, I really am,” he said.
  • (15) The dip from 48,300 in July to 47,400 last month was the fourth fall in a row and chimed with other recent evidence that demand for property has weakened since the start of 2010.
  • (16) If any of this chimes with your general view of what's wrong with the world, it's fair to say that you'd like her.
  • (17) The allegations are potentially damaging because they appear, superficially at least, to chime with previous claims about Mrs Netanyahu's temper and concern with cleanliness.
  • (18) The negative outlook chimes with other surveys that reveal a dramatic slump in sentiment since the summer.
  • (19) Fellow goalkeeper Tim Howard chimed in after the first US practice on the field to note that the grass comes in trays and that it “kind of jells together” to create “spots on the field that may tear up easily.” Clint Dempsey was fairly sanguine though — noting that while the ball may not bounce as much on this surface, that with the field being watered well “the ball will be moving quickly —which is important — and rolling true.” Let’s hope that the turf becomes a footnote in the game.
  • (20) If you were in New York – and this chimes well with what I remember from my own youth in the city – the average worker thought it was a pain in the neck to live in this fairly dangerous city.

Toll


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To take away; to vacate; to annul.
  • (v. t.) To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.
  • (v. t.) To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.
  • (v. t.) To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.
  • (v. t.) To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.
  • (v. i.) To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person.
  • (n.) The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.
  • (n.) A tax 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, or the like.
  • (n.) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
  • (n.) A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
  • (v. i.) To pay toll or tallage.
  • (v. i.) To take toll; to raise a tax.
  • (v. t.) To collect, as a toll.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This death toll represents 25% of avoidable adult deaths in developing countries.
  • (2) Large price cuts seem to have taken a toll on retailer profitability, while not necessarily increasing sales substantially,” Barclaycard concluded.
  • (3) But sanctions and mismanagement took their toll, and the scale of the long-awaited economic catharsis won’t be grand,” he says.
  • (4) The number of killings in Iraq has reached levels unseen since 2008 in recent months and Sunday's attacks bring the death toll across the country in October to 545, according to an Associated Press count.
  • (5) I came from a strong family and my parents had a devoted marriage, but I experienced the toll breast cancer took on their relationship and their children.
  • (6) AP reported a lower death toll of one killed and 20 wounded.
  • (7) As BHP’s share price in Australia pushed near 10-year lows on Thursday, the government in Brasilia has become increasingly concerned over the rising death toll and contaminated mud flowing through two states as a result of the disaster.
  • (8) Chinese authorities have raised the death toll from Beijing's floods to 77 from 37 after the public questioned the days-old tally.
  • (9) Undoubtedly, as repeatedly urged, appropriate selective screening and health education could effectively reduce the toll of mortality, especially in high-risk developing populations.
  • (10) In fact the UN estimates the total death toll, regardless of responsibility, to be about 93,000 people.
  • (11) Nancy Curtin, the chief investment officer of Close Brothers Asset Management said: "The US economy didn't just grind to a halt in the first quarter – it hit reverse as the polar vortex took its toll.
  • (12) The lesson for the international community, fatigued or bored by competing stories of Middle Eastern carnage, is that problems that are left to fester only get worse – and always take a terrible human toll.
  • (13) The combined mortality and morbidity from aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage exceeds 40%, and therefore yields a remarkably high toll of human and economic loss.
  • (14) And at the coalface of Israeli coalition management, where every deal is done over the still-twitching body of an ally fervently opposed to it, the economics of disappointment eventually take a toll.
  • (15) Murdoch's British newspapers, which include the Times, the Sun and the News of the World, suffered a 14% drop in year-end advertising revenue as the recession took its toll.
  • (16) But it had already taken its toll on the Deghayes's children.
  • (17) The death toll was expected to rise sharply and 20,000 civilians were sheltering in two UN bases in Juba.
  • (18) The death toll in Gaza has climbed to at least 480, with more than 2,300 wounded, according to Palestinian medical officials.
  • (19) The devastating toll it has had on this generation of children is far-reaching.
  • (20) The feeling of restlessness and fatigue started to take its toll and I spent more and more time alone.