tote
/təʊt/US/toʊt/
tote noun: a tote bag.
Noun (1)
tote (plural totes)
- A tote bag.
- A heavy burden.
- A kind of plastic box used for transporting goods.
- They can be used for palleted bags, totes, or bales and can also be used to transport large logs.2012, Chittaranjan Kole, Chandrashekhar P. Joshi, David R. Shonnard, Handbook of Bioenergy Crop Plants, page 129
- The principal handle of a handplane, for gripping the plane.
- Coordinate term: knob
Verb (1)
tote (third-person singular simple present totes, present participle toting, simple past and past participle toted)
- To carry or bear.
- "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?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 &...
- 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.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
Verb (2)
tote (third-person singular simple present totes, present participle toting, simple past and past participle toted)
Noun (2)
tote (plural totes)
- A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator.
- He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,
He laid the odds and kept a "tote", whatever that may be,1892, Banjo Paterson, The Man from Ironbark
- He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,
- Pari-mutuel betting.
tote meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
tote in Hindi
- टोटे
tote in Marathi
- टोटे
tote in Urdu
- ڈھونا, اٹھائے رکھنا
tote in Bengali
- টোটে
More languagesFewer languages
- tote in Malayalam
- ടോട്ടെ, ടോട്ട് ചെയ്യാൻ
- tote in Gujarati
- ટોટે
- tote in Odia
- ଟୋଟେ
- tote in Nepali
- टोटे
- tote in Malay
- beg jinjing
- tote in Indonesian
- tas jinjing
Examples of tote in a sentence
- Schlepping is Yiddish for "toting or dragging around," and a quintessentially New York City kind of term.
- I unlock my tote box and reach for my gym strip.
- We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable.
Synonyms of tote
Forms of tote
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | totes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | totes |
| present participle | toting |
| past participle | toted |
| past | toted |
| alternative form | tot |
Origin of tote
Possibly 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 (“drinking vessel”), Saterland Frisian Tüütje (“paper bag”), West Frisian tút (“spout, toot, kiss”), Dutch tuit (“horn, spout, nozzle”), Danish tud (“spout, nozzle”), Faroese strútur (“spout”), Icelandic stútur (“spout”), Norwegian and Swedish tut (“spout”), Old Norse tútna (“to be blown up”). Possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tut(t)- (“to stick out, protrude”). Alternatively, from a Bantu language; compare Kongo tota (“to pick up”), Kimbundu tuta (“to carry, load”), Swahili tuta (“to pile, carry”).
Clipping of total, with e to distinguish from tot in writing.
Clipping of totalizator.
Words formed from tote
Phrases with tote
- tote up
- tote bag
- tote bags
- tote roads
- tote boards
- pick to tote
- lit up the tote
- blew up the tote
- blown up the tote
- blows up the tote
- lights up the tote
- blowing up the tote
1 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with tote
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- oat
- quote
- connote
- groat
- remote
- scrote
- bote
- capote
- denote
- devote
- dote
- mote
- smote
- solar boat
- undercoat
- cote
- demote
- gloat
- pote
- refloat
- rote
- undernote
- wrote
- yote
- blót
- confidence vote
- disease boat
- end of quote
- end quote
- entrecôte
- flote
- frote
- ignote
- isot
- lote
- loth
- misquote
- moth
- phot
- recoat
- rewrote
- shoat
- stoat
- swagger coat
- troat
- two hundred fifty-sixth note
- underquote
- underwrote
Questions about tote
- What does tote mean?
- Tote means a tote bag.
- What is tote in Hindi?
- Tote in Hindi is टोटे. See Tote meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tote?
- Tote can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce tote?
- Tote is pronounced /təʊt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of tote?
- The plural of tote is totes.
Words near tote in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tote (page history and authors); tote (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tote (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tote (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tote (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tote (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tote (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tote (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tote (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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