tote
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Probably from Middle Low German tûte, tǖte (“horn, conical paper bag”), whence also German Tute (“horn, bugle”) and German Tüte (“bag, paper bag”). Compare also Scots tout (“a drinking vessel”), Saterland Frisian Tüütje (“paper bag”), West Frisian tút (“spout, toot, kiss”), Dutch tuit (“horn, spout, nozzle”), Swedish tuta (“to honk”), Danish tud (“spout, nozzle”), Old Norse tútna (“to be blown up”). Possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tut(t)- (“to stick out, protrude”).
Noun
tote (plural totes)
- A tote bag.
- A heavy burden.
- (logistics) A kind of plastic box used for transporting goods.
- 2012, Chittaranjan Kole, Chandrashekhar P. Joshi, David R. Shonnard, Handbook of Bioenergy Crop Plants, page 129:
- They can be used for palleted bags, totes, or bales and can also be used to transport large logs.
Derived terms
Translations
tote bag
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Verb
tote (third-person singular simple present totes, present participle toting, simple past and past participle toted)
- (Southern US) To carry or bear.
- 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter V, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC, page 64:
- "Well, old man!" said Aunt Chloe. "why don't you go, too? Will you wait to be toted down river, where they kill niggers with hard work and starving?
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
- 1980, Stephen King, The Wedding Gig:
- It took ten pallbearers to carry her coffin. There was a picture of them toting it in one of the tabloids.
- 2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club:
- In stretches, this new Apes is an audacious, idiosyncratic piece of blockbuster filmmaking: a mix of Pixar, revenge Westerns, and Apocalypse Now, told almost entirely from the point-of-view of a posse of gun-toting, super-evolved apes as they roam the snowy Sierra Nevada foothills of the post-apocalyptic future, accompanied by a mute human girl, and bear witness to the strange cruelty of man.
- April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair:
- Like many women whose relationships with their husbands have become dysfunctional, Diana used her elder son as both a stand-in and a buffer, toting him along for meetings with journalists.
- 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:
- The storm has passed when I arrive at Southampton Central, but more fun is to come. The station platforms and waiting rooms are crammed with people, many toting enormous amounts of baggage as they have just come off a cruise liner.
Translations
carry or bear
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Etymology 2
Short for total, with e to distinguish from tot in writing.
Alternative forms
Verb
tote (third-person singular simple present totes, present participle toting, simple past and past participle toted)
Translations
add up
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Etymology 3
Short for totalizator.
Noun
tote (plural totes)
- (British, Australia) A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator.
- 1892, Banjo Paterson, The Man from Ironbark:
- He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,
He laid the odds and kept a "tote", whatever that may be,
- (British, Australia) Pari-mutuel betting.
Translations
totalizator
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Pronunciation
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Adjective
tote
- inflection of tot:
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adverb
tote
Related terms
Etymology
Determiner
tote
Romanization
tote
Pronunciation
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈto.te/, [ˈt̪ɔt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈto.te/, [ˈt̪ɔːt̪e]
Adjective
tote
Etymology
Preposition
tōte
- up to, towards, to (a specific destination or point in time)
- at (a specific point in time)
- with respect to
Alternative forms
Descendants
Further reading
- “tote (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “tote (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
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