📖 T — The English dictionary · page 39

tour — Everyday, meaning 1: A tour is a trip visiting several places, like a tour of a city.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tour is also a walk around one place with a guide who explains things, like a tour of a museum or school.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A tour is a trip by a band, team or show to perform in many places.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To tour is to travel around a place to see it.↗ Example: The bus tour takes 3 hours.↗ · A ticket for the tour costs 15 dollars.↗ · 40 people went on the tour in 2 buses.↗ · They toured 5 museums in 2 days.↗ · The guide took us on a tour of the castle.↗ · New pupils get a tour of the school.↗ · The band is on tour around Australia.↗ · We stayed with the tour guide so nobody got lost.↗ · I shall make a tour this summer; will you go with me?↗

tourism — Everyday, meaning 1: Tourism is the business of people travelling to places for holidays and of providing them with hotels, trips and things to see.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It also means the activity of visiting places as a tourist.↗ Example: Tourism brings a lot of money to seaside towns.↗ · New Zealand is famous for adventure tourism like bungee jumping.↗ · Too much tourism can damage beaches and coral reefs.↗ · Eco-tourism tries to protect nature while people visit.↗ · The pandemic hit tourism very hard.↗ · My uncle works in tourism as a tour guide.↗

tourist — Everyday, meaning 1: A tourist is a person who travels to a place for fun, to see it and visit its sights.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tourist place is one that many visitors come to.↗ Example: A bus carries 45 tourists.↗ · 120 tourists visited the castle.↗ · Each tourist pays $6.↗ · The tourists split into groups of 10.↗ · Tourists took photos of the old bridge.↗ · The tourist asked us the way to the museum.↗ · Summer is the busy tourist season at the beach.↗ · The tourist information centre gave us a free map.↗

tournament — Everyday, meaning 1: A tournament is a competition with many games or matches, where players or teams try to win.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In history, a tournament was a contest where knights fought on horseback for sport.↗ Example: There are 8 teams in the tournament.↗ · Each team plays every other team once.↗ · She scored 12 points in the tournament.↗ · The tournament lasts 5 days with 4 games a day.↗ · Our school won the netball tournament.↗ · In a knock-out tournament, the losing team goes home.↗ · Knights rode at the tournament to win the king's prize.↗ · The chess tournament had players from ten schools.↗ · The Princess went with her sisters to the window and looked on at the tournament.↗

tousled — Everyday, meaning 1: Untidy and messy, especially of hair: tousled hair looks as if you have just woken up.↗ Example: He came down to breakfast with tousled hair.↗ · The wind left her hair tousled.↗ · Dad tousled my hair and smiled.↗ · A tousled puppy jumped out of the box.↗ · She looked tousled after the long trip.↗ · His tousled curls stuck out everywhere.↗

tout — Everyday, meaning 1: To tout means to try hard to sell something or to praise it loudly, so people will buy or believe it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK) A tout (ticket tout) is a person who buys tickets for concerts or matches and sells them at a higher price.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (French) «Tout» means «all» or «everything», as in «tout le monde» (everybody); it sounds like «too».↗ Example: He was touted as the next football star.↗ · Ticket touts were selling seats for double the price.↗ · Street sellers touted cheap watches.↗ · «Tout le monde» means everybody in French.↗ · The new game was touted as the best ever.↗ · Don't buy from touts — the tickets might be fake.↗

tow — Everyday, meaning 1: To tow something is to pull it behind a vehicle or boat, using a rope, chain or bar.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tow is the act of towing, as in "give someone a tow".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: "In tow" means following closely behind, as in "with three children in tow".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The tough, rough fibre of flax or hemp, combed out before it is spun into thread.↗ Example: The tow truck towed our car to the garage.↗ · Dad's car tows the caravan on holiday.↗ · If you park there, your car will be towed away.↗ · The tractor gave the stuck car a tow out of the mud.↗ · Mum arrived with all five of us in tow.↗ · The boat towed the water-skier across the lake.↗ · When they saw the wee bannock come in, they jumped up, and got behind the goodwife, that was carding tow by the fire.↗ · And the strong shall be as tow, and his work as a spark; and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.↗ (Prophets ISA.1.31, JPS 1917)↗ · And she said unto him: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.'↗ And he broke the bowstrings as a string of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire.↗ (Prophets JDG.16.9, JPS 1917)↗

towel — Everyday, meaning 1: A towel is a piece of thick soft cloth or paper used to dry your body, hands or dishes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To towel (off) is to dry yourself with a towel.↗ Example: Dry your hands on the towel.↗ · Don't forget your towel for swimming.↗ · Hang your wet towel up to dry.↗ · Use a paper towel to wipe the spill.↗ · Grandma dried the plates with a tea towel.↗ · Lie on your beach towel in the shade.↗ · Don't share towels when you have a cold.↗ · The tired boxer threw in the towel.↗

towelling — Everyday, meaning 1: Towelling is a thick, soft, absorbent cotton cloth with little loops, used to make towels, bathrobes and baby bibs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A towelling can be a rub with a towel to dry yourself.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old, informal) A towelling once meant a beating.↗ Example: My dressing gown is made of soft towelling.↗ · Towelling soaks up water well.↗ · We tested towelling, cotton and plastic to see which absorbed most water.↗ · The baby's bib was white towelling.↗ · Tennis players wear towelling wristbands to wipe sweat.↗ · After the swim, Dad gave me a quick towelling.↗

tower — Everyday, meaning 1: A tower is a tall, narrow building or part of a building, like a castle tower or a clock tower.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tower is a tall stack of things: a tower of blocks.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To tower over something is to be much taller than it.↗ Example: The tower is 50 meters tall.↗ · Tim built a tower of 12 blocks.↗ · Each block is 3 cm high.↗ · Her tower is 4 blocks taller than his.↗ · Rapunzel let down her hair from the tower.↗ · The castle has four towers.↗ · The giraffe towered over the zebras.↗ · Our team built the tallest tower out of paper cups.↗ · So the King had a tower built on purpose.↗ · And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.↗ (Torah GEN.11.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'↗ (Torah GEN.11.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Where is he that counted the towers?'↗ (Prophets ISA.33.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall; (Prophets ISA.2.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Walk about Zion, and go round about her; count the towers thereof.↗ (Writings PSA.48.13, JPS 1917)↗

town — Everyday, meaning 1: A town is a place where many people live and work, bigger than a village and smaller than a city.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Town» or «the town» can mean the centre of a place with the shops: «go into town».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The people of a town together are also called the town.↗ Example: The two towns are 60 km apart.↗ · 2500 people live in the town.↗ · A bus goes from town A to town B.↗ · How far is it from the town to the lake?↗ · We went into town to buy new shoes.↗ · My grandparents live in a small town by the sea.↗ · The town hall has a big clock.↗ · The whole town came to watch the parade.↗ · "It was in a little town.↗ · All these were fortified cities, with high walls, gates, and bars; beside the unwalled towns a great many.↗ (Torah DEU.3.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.↗ (Torah NUM.21.32, JPS 1917)↗ · And Israel took all these cities; and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the towns thereof.↗ (Torah NUM.21.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Ekron, with its towns and its villages; (Prophets JOS.15.45, JPS 1917)↗ · and in Hazar-shual, and in Beer-sheba and the towns thereof; (Writings NEH.11.27, JPS 1917)↗ · and in Ziklag, and in Meconah and in the towns thereof; (Writings NEH.11.28, JPS 1917)↗

townsfolk — Everyday, meaning 1: Townsfolk are the people who live in a particular town, or town people in general as opposed to country people.↗ Example: The townsfolk gathered in the square to hear the news.↗ · The Pied Piper led the rats away, but the townsfolk did not pay him.↗ · The townsfolk cheered when the knight returned.↗ · All the townsfolk came to the summer fair.↗ · The townsfolk were afraid of the dragon on the hill.↗ · The mayor asked the townsfolk to help clean the river.↗ · In the past, townsfolk and country folk lived very different lives.↗ · And as he paced along, slowly and gravely, the townsfolk flocked to door and window, and many a blessing they called down upon his head.↗

townspeople — Everyday, meaning 1: The people who live in a town, especially when thought of all together.↗ Example: The townspeople gathered in the square to hear the news.↗ · The townspeople of Hamelin would not pay the Piper.↗ · All the townspeople came out to watch the parade.↗ · The flood forced the townspeople to leave their homes.↗ · In the Middle Ages, townspeople paid taxes to the lord.↗ · The townspeople cheered when the hero returned.↗ · He drove by the town, but the townspeople had met together and had been looking out for him for ever so long.↗

towny — Everyday, meaning 1: Towny describes someone or something that belongs to the town, not the countryside, or that likes town life (informal).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A towny (often spelled townie) is a person from the town, especially as country people or students see them (informal, sometimes unkind).↗ Example: The farm kids laughed at the towny boy who was scared of the sheep.↗ · Gran calls us townies when we visit her village.↗ · The towny clothes looked strange in the muddy field.↗ · She is too towny to enjoy camping.↗ · The students and the townies played a football match.↗

towpath — Everyday, meaning 1: A path along the bank of a river or canal, where horses once walked pulling barges and boats with ropes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Today, a path along a canal or river used for walking, running and cycling.↗ Example: We cycled along the canal towpath.↗ · A horse once pulled the barge along the towpath.↗ · Toad rode off on the barge-horse along the towpath.↗ · Ring your bell when you pass walkers on the towpath.↗ · The towpath was muddy after the rain.↗ · Ducks waddled across the towpath.↗

toxic — Everyday, meaning 1: Toxic means poisonous, able to harm or kill living things if swallowed, breathed in or touched.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Toxic is used about behaviour or relationships that are harmful and unkind: «a toxic friendship».↗ Example: Bleach is toxic, so keep it locked away.↗ · Chocolate is toxic to dogs.↗ · Some mushrooms are toxic.↗ · The factory dumped toxic waste in the river.↗ · Don't breathe in toxic fumes.↗ · That group chat became toxic.↗ · Look for the hazard label on toxic products.↗

toxicity — Everyday, meaning 1: Toxicity is how poisonous or harmful a substance is.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Toxicity also means nasty, unkind or harmful behaviour between people, for example online.↗ Example: Some mushrooms have very high toxicity.↗ · Scientists test the toxicity of new medicines.↗ · The dose matters: almost anything has toxicity in a large amount.↗ · Lead paint was banned because of its toxicity.↗ · The chat game was spoiled by toxicity and name-calling.↗ · Chocolate has toxicity for dogs, even though it is safe for people.↗

toxin — Everyday, meaning 1: A toxin is a poison, especially one made by a living thing such as a plant, animal, fungus or germ.↗ Example: Some frogs have toxins in their skin.↗ · Bee stings contain a mild toxin.↗ · The bacteria made a toxin that caused food poisoning.↗ · The puffer fish has a deadly toxin.↗ · Plants make toxins to stop animals eating them.↗ · The liver cleans toxins from the blood.↗

toy — Everyday, meaning 1: A toy is a thing children play with, like a doll, a ball, a teddy or a toy car.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Toy can describe a small model of a real thing: a toy train.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To toy with something is to play with it without much care or to think about an idea not very seriously.↗ Example: Sam has 18 toys.↗ · Each toy costs 4 dollars.↗ · He gave 5 toys to his sister.↗ · The shop sold 30 toys on Saturday.↗ · Please put your toys back in the toy box.↗ · We gave our old toys to the charity shop.↗ · Keep small toys away from the baby.↗ · She toyed with her food because she wasn't hungry.↗ · Then the toys began to play at visiting, dancing, and fighting.↗

trace — Everyday, meaning 1: To trace a picture is to copy it by drawing over its lines through thin paper.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To trace something is to find where it came from or where it went by following signs.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A trace is a very small amount or mark left behind.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To trace a line or shape is to draw it or follow it with your finger.↗ Example: Trace the map onto the thin paper.↗ · Little children trace the dotted letters to learn to write.↗ · The police traced the stolen bike to a shop in town.↗ · The boat disappeared without a trace.↗ · There was a trace of chocolate on his chin.↗ · Trace the path through the maze with your finger.↗ · We traced our family back to Ireland.↗ · The water had a trace of salt in it.↗ · Not a trace of him was to be found!↗ · But Isaac Myer states that there are un- doubted traces of pointing in Hebrew MSS. of the second century.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · In this way every word of the Hebrew language traces a path through the ‘gates’ from one letter to the next.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and trace upon it a city, even Jerusalem; (Prophets EZK.4.1, JPS 1917)↗