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Toll Call

Definition: Toll Call

Toll Call

Noun

1. A long-distance telephone call at charges above a local rate.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Toll Call

DomainDefinition

Post & Telecom

A telephone call to points beyond the area within which telephone calls are covered by a flat monthly rate or are charged for on a message unit basis. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Toll Call

Specialty definitions using "toll call": to shuttle. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Toll Call

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

local toll call

7

toll call

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Toll Call

Language Translations for "toll call"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

interurban telefonforbindelse (trunk call). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

interlokale telefoonverbinding (trunk call). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kaukopuhelu (long-distance call, trunk call). (various references)

   

French

  

conversation interurbaine, communication interurbaine, appel interurbain. (various references)

   

German

  

Ferngespräch (long distance call, long-distance call, trunk call). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υπεραστική κλήση (trunk call). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

שיחת חוץ, שיח" בין עירו ית (trunk call). (various references)

   

Italian

  

telefonata interurbana (trunk call). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

市外通話 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しがいつうわ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olltay allcay

   

Portuguese

  

conversação interurbana (trunk call). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

llamada interurbana (trunk call), conferencia interurbana (trunk call), conferencia (confabulation, conference, conference call, lecture, palaver, powwow, prelection, symposium), comunicación interurbana (trunk call). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

şehirlerarası arama. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Toll Call

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-l-l-l-l-o-t"

-2 letters: tallol.

-3 letters: allot, atoll, local, octal.

-4 letters: alto, call, calo, clot, coal, coat, cola, colt, lall, loca, loll, lota, olla, taco, talc, tall, tola, toll.

-5 letters: act, all, alt, cat, col, cot, lac, lat, lot, oat, oca, tao.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-l-l-l-l-o-t"
 

+4 letters: collaterally.

 

+5 letters: allotypically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Toll Call


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 6C 6C      43 61 6C 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01101100 01101100 00100000 01000011 01100001 01101100 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#108 &#108 &#32 &#67 &#97 &#108 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 006C 006C      0043 0061 006C 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54817878237677878

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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