What's the difference between teller and toller?

Teller


Definition:

  • (n.) One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.
  • (n.) One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king.
  • (n.) An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks.
  • (n.) One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
  • (2) Solzhenitsyn was acknowledged as a "truth-teller" and a witness to the cruelties of Stalinism of unusual power and eloquence.
  • (3) Pointing out that “the army has its own fortune teller”, he sounds less than happy at the state of affairs: “The country is run by superstition.” Weerasethakul is in a relatively fortunate position, in that his arcane films are not exactly populist and don’t depend on the mainstream Thai film industry for funding, but he has become cast as a significant voice of dissent in a difficult time .
  • (4) The development of visual acuity was studied longitudinally in young kittens, using a modification of the forced-choice preferential looking method (FPL) devised by Teller et al.
  • (5) The Teller Acuity Card test was used to examine 49 normal children, 77 with strabismus, 9 with anisometropia and 19 with various organic ocular diseases.
  • (6) The lunchtime rush at a huge TSB on Colmore Circus consists of a solitary customer talking to a solitary teller; three separate seating areas, two reception desks and four semi-private meeting rooms are deserted.
  • (7) And yet none of these other truth tellers have received the kind of public and media support that this set of editorials represents, perhaps because there is a fundamental difference between Manning's disclosures and Assange's publication of Wikileaks, when compared to Snowden's revelations on NSA intelligence gathering.
  • (8) Assessment of visual resolution with Teller Acuity Cards is now routine procedure in infant visual check-up.
  • (9) In order to test the reliability of this method, using Teller acuity cards as the standard, we compared estimates of objective and subjective vision in 25 consecutive patients with congenital esotropia and cross-fixation.
  • (10) He said I was the best polling teller he’d ever had.” By 1992, when Neil Kinnock had raised his party’s expectations to the point that victory seemed to be within its grasp , she was at sixth-form college, where she stood in the obligatory mock election.
  • (11) It is concluded that, in children and infants, visual function over the entire spectrum of low vision can be characterized by using a combination of the Teller acuity cards and the visual function battery.
  • (12) remarkable.." Teller (is he related to the atomic physicist or the magician?
  • (13) Fan ire over casting – the movie features Miles Teller as Mr Fantastic, Kate Mara as Invisible Woman, Michael B Jordan as The Human Torch and Jamie Bell as The Thing – would appear to be a storm in a superhero tea cup.
  • (14) However, the focus on Snowden's singular case seriously deflects from the fact that the Obama administration has been a nightmare for whistleblowers and truth tellers, and that several others currently in prison or in exile deserve the same clemency or clear assurances they will not be prosecuted.
  • (15) In the post-modern sensibility, the story is set free to perform as simply a story that allows for re-invention as the story-teller finds a voice rooted in the person's own experience and in the connection of her story to those of others, and to larger stories of culture and humanity.
  • (16) The gangs even designed cash boxes to fit the dimensions of the tellers’ windows.
  • (17) Downing Street moved to reach out to the rebels by dispatching William Hague to declare that the government would "take note" after 51 rebel Tories – plus two tellers – joined forces with Labour to defeat the government by 307 votes to 294, a majority of 13.
  • (18) You can tell the bank is owned by Putin because both the pens and the tellers are chained to the desks,” he said.
  • (19) There aren't too many 26-year-olds out there who can talk about the complexities of supply distribution networks, who have been shot by both Juergen Teller and Playboy and who believe they change the face of global capitalism by creating a platform to encourage small acts of kindness.
  • (20) The anniversary yesterday of the Newcastle-based lender's demise prompted union officials to calculate that 100,000 jobs have since been lost in the financial services sector – and warn that little has changed in the City, where investment bankers are secure while tellers lose their jobs.

Toller


Definition:

  • (n.) A toll gatherer.
  • (n.) One who tolls a bell.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Several mucolytic agents were evaluated on sputum for testing their viscolytic activity and the bacterial tollerance to each of them.
  • (2) When asked about this in 1926 by the German leftist Ernst Toller, Gastev replied: "We hope by our discoveries to arrive at a stage when a worker who formerly worked eight hours on a particular job will only have to work two or three".
  • (3) Arrhythmia detection by ambulatory electrocardiography was used to assess drug efficacy; side-effects establish the maximum tollerated dose for each individual patient.
  • (4) Proteolytic enzymes (trypsin, pepsin, papain, pancreatin), KJ, and dithiothreitol (or its derivatives) were better tollerated by common respiratory pathogens (H. influenzae, D. pneumoniae, Klebsiella, etc.)
  • (5) Of other "risk factors" (BP, glucose tollerance, smoking, ESR) entered into the regression together with only age and the LPs, only ESR contributed with borderline significance to ST depressions.
  • (6) The data are discussed on the basis of a differential tollerance-inducing action of mammary tumour viruses (MTVs) which infect C3H, A.CA and RIII, and have an important role in tumour induction.
  • (7) Preliminary results are reported here with respect to the tollerance of the dialytic run and correction of the acid-base balance equilibrium.
  • (8) In our opinion, on the basis of the results obtained acebutolol shows a good efficacy in the treatment of hypertension and a very high tollerability.
  • (9) Reporters looked on bemused when he began quoting a passage from the East German socialist poet Ernst Toller about “it not being seemly to mourn”, but otherwise it was an admirably frank press conference, free at last of the platitudes and cliches that have too often been the norm in Labour’s campaign.
  • (10) The clinical tollerance is excellent despite high dehydration rates even in patients particularly sensitive to ultrafiltration.

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