(n.) A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.
(v. t.) To ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon; to toll; to proclaim, or summon, by ringing.
(v. i.) To sound, as a bell; to knell.
(n.) The tolling of a bell; a knell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inadequacies of techniques presently used have been pointed out and the advantages of using Graham-Knoll's method for haemoglobin staining when counter stained with Giemsa together with autoradiography using tritiated thymidine have been demonstrated.
(2) The results confirmed the previous findings of Knoll on SOD activity and furthermore provided evidence that the activity of catalase is also significantly induced by the drug, which was not found in the previous study.
(3) He also imagined himself sitting on a grassy knoll in Poland, a country he had never visited, surrounded by rolling hills as dawn broke over the roof of the world on 26 May to reveal not a bucolic scene but the reality of his position – perched over a white abyss.
(4) In equianalgesic doses, azidomorphine is reported by J. Knoll, S. Fürst and K. Kelemen (The pharmacology of azidomorphine and azidocodeine.
(5) The effects of verapamil (Isoptin Knoll) and calcium glubionate (Calcium Polfa) were studied on the generation of free radicals and activity of anti-oxidant enzymes in rat's gastric mucosa following the oral administration of 50% ethyl alcohol.
(6) Partial (27 patients) or complete (5 patients) myeloperoxidase deficiency was confirmed by examination of cytochemical stains (Graham-Knoll method).
(7) Mean long bone length values and estimates of growth velocity are compared to data reported for the Indian Knoll and Arikara skeletal samples.
(8) As MAO inhibitors have beneficial effects in the treatment of malfunctions of aminergic transmitter systems (Johnstone and Marsh, 1973; Robinson et al., 1973; Birkmayer et al., 1977; Knoll, 1981; Zarifian, 1984; Riederer and Youdim, 1986) and a large amount of MAO activity seems to be localized in brain astrocytes, the function of glial cells especially with regard to their neuromodulating capacity should be focused in more detailed research in future.
(9) The first applications to the commission (pdf) include plans from French company EDF for new nuclear power stations at Hinckley Point and Sizewell, plus a massive offshore wind farm by Germany's RWE Innogy at Triton Knoll , off the east coast of England.
(10) For details regarding the pharmacology of (-)deprenyl we refer a number of reviews (Knoll 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1986).
(11) The beach itself has plenty of grassy knolls on the surrounding slopes, where you can sunbathe in comfort and take in the dramatic scenery.
(12) You get a round of applause, ceremonies on grassy knolls, and then come the missiles and the tunnels.” The Obama officials’ comments underline the dismal state of relations between the Obama administration and Netanyahu after a series of damaging announcements by Israel – including again this week – regarding its determination to push ahead with settlement building in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
(13) Conceptual planning and architectural design have enabled the elderly residents at Maple Knoll Village, Springdale, OH, to live somewhat independent lives and to receive essential medical and nursing care.
(14) A British official said: "There is chatter that the SVR [Russia's Foreign Intelligence Services] and the FSB [its secret police] are planting just enough disinformation to fuel a thousand grassy knoll conspiracy theories, to muck up the forensics on the scene."
(15) A modified Knoll Assessment of Pressure Ulcer Potential tool was used to determine which risk factors were common among the patients.
(16) The Central California long bone growth curves are very similar to the Indian Knoll and Arikara from birth through dental age 2.
(17) in Raynaud's phenomenon as well as to its usefulness in evaluation of reconstructive arterial surgery and medical treatment with respectively thrombolytic (Brinase, Astra) and microhaemorheologic agents (Venoruton, Zyma; Arwin, Knoll) or those with an influence on systemic haemodynamic factors as in induced hypertension.
(18) Meanwhile, conspiracy theorists posited that the heat was a secret Spurs plot: as if, aware of James’ history of cramping, San Antonio’s head coach, Gregg Popovich, had somehow masterminded the air-conditioning failure, possibly from a grassy knoll.
(19) In striking contrast to MAO inhibitors which strongly potentiate the pressor effect of tyramine, (-)deprenyl was described to inhibit the tyramine-induced release of noradrenaline in vascular smooth muscle (Knoll et al., 1968).
(20) As compared with the doses of standard drugs required for cure of infections with drug-susceptible strains or doses of the newly developed aminoalcohols required for cure of either drug-susceptible or drug-resistant strains, each of these quinazolines effected cure of infections with the Oak Knoll strain at a remarkably small daily dose.
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.