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Webster 1913 Edition


Tote

Tote

,
Noun.
[L.
totum
, fr.
totus
all, whole.]
The entire body, or all;
as, the whole
tote
.
[Colloq.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Tote

TOTE

,
Verb.
T.
To carry or convey. [A word used in slaveholding countries; said to have been introduced by the blacks.]

Definition 2024


Tote

Tote

See also: tote

German

Noun

Tote f (genitive Toter, plural Tote, masculine Toter)

  1. cadaver; corpse (female dead person)
Declension

Noun

Tote

  1. inflected form of Toter

tote

tote

See also: Tote and töte

English

Noun

tote (plural totes)

  1. A bag, specifically a tote bag.
  2. A heavy burden.
Translations

Verb

tote (third-person singular simple present totes, present participle toting, simple past and past participle toted)

  1. To carry or bear.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      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.
    to tote a child over a stream
Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening of 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)

  1. To add up; to calculate a total.
Translations

Etymology 3

Shortening of totalizator

Noun

tote (plural totes)

  1. (Britain) 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,
Translations

German

Adjective

tote

  1. inflected form of tot

Ido

Etymology

tota (whole, entire) + -e (adverb)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈto.te/

Adverb

tote

  1. entirely, perfectly, thoroughly

Related terms

  • tota (whole, entire)
  • totala (total)
  • totale (totally)
  • entote (ensemble, altogether, on the whole, in all, in a body, bodily, overall)

Interlingua

Determiner

tote

  1. (quantifying) all, the entire

Japanese

Romanization

tote

  1. rōmaji reading of とて

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtoː.te/

Adjective

tōte

  1. vocative masculine singular of tōtus

Middle Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Dutch tuote, equivalent to toe + te. Compare Old Saxon tōte (to, until), Old Frisian tot (until), Old High German zuo ze.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /totə/

Preposition

tote

  1. up to, towards, to (a specific destination or point in time)
  2. at (a specific point in time)
  3. with respect to