tows
UK/təʊz/US/toʊz/
tows is the plural of tow.
tows is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tow.
Meaning of tow
Noun (1)
tow (plural tows)
- The act of towing and the condition of being towed.
- It isn't the car's battery; I think I need a tow.
- Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
- Something, such as a barge, that is towed.
- A rope or cable used in towing.
- A speed increase given by driving in front of another car on a straight, which causes a slipstream for the car behind.
- On Saturday, Vettel was very unhappy with Leclerc's failure to work out a way through the traffic and give him a tow for the second runs in qualifying, as had been agreed.2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport
Noun (2)
tow (countable and uncountable, plural tows)
- An untwisted bundle of fibres such as cellulose acetate, flax, hemp or jute.
- And the strong shall be as towe, and the maker of it as a sparke, and they shall both burne together, and none shall quench them.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 1:31
Noun (1) capitalized: TOWS
TOWS (plural TOWSs)
- take-off warning system
Noun (2) capitalized: TOWs
TOWs
- plural of TOW
Proper noun capitalized: Tows
Tows
- plural of Tow
Forms of tows
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Phrases with tows
Words that rhyme with tows
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- interpose
- propose
- gloze
- oppose
- disclose
- foreclose
- prose
- snows
- turn up one's nose
- unclose
- adipose
- appose
- arose
- chose
- counterpose
- croze
- decompose
- doze
- enclose
- froze
- hoes
- knows
- adoze
- apollos
- beaus
- beprose
- blows
- bose
- bros
- châteaux
- cloze
- coze
- crows
- does
- dos
- doughs
- fallows
- fellows
- flows
- foes
- follows
- foredispose
- frows
- glows
- goes
- grows
- hard-nose
- hollows
Questions about tows
- What does tows mean?
- Tows means take-off warning system.
- What is tows the plural of?
- Tows is the plural of tow.
- What part of speech is tows?
- Tows can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce tows?
- Tows is pronounced /təʊz/ (UK).
- What is the plural of tows?
- The plural of tows is TOWSs.
Words near tows in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tows (page history and authors); TOWS (page history and authors); TOWs (page history and authors); Tows (page history and authors); tow (page history and authors). 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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