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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. Informal To haul; lug.
  2. v. Informal To have on one's person; pack: toting guns.
  3. n. Informal A load; a burden.
  4. n. A tote bag.
  5. v. Informal To determine the total of; add up.
  6. v. Informal To sum up; summarize.
  7. n. Informal A pari-mutuel machine.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To haul (supplies) to a logging-camp.
  2. An obsolete or dialectal form of toot.
  3. An obsolete form of toot.
  4. n. The entire body, or all: as, the whole tote.
  5. Same as tot.
  6. To count; reckon.
  7. n. The handle of a joiners' plane.
  8. To carry or bear, especially in the arms, on the shoulders, or on the back, as a burden or load.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A bag, specifically a tote bag.
  2. n. A heavy burden.
  3. v. To carry a heavy load.
  4. v. To add up; to calculate a total.
  5. n. UK A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To carry or bear; ; -- a colloquial word originating in the Southern States, and used there esp. by negroes, now common throughout the U. S.
  2. n. colloq. The entire body, or all.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a capacious bag or basket
  2. v. carry with difficulty

Etymologies

  1. Shortening of totalizator (Wiktionary)
  2. Perhaps (via Black West African English) of Bantu origin; akin to Kongo -tota, to pick up, and Swahili -tuta, to pile up, carry.Short for totalizator. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Now Don, I'm sure you know that "tote" is a multi-purpose verb in the South!”

    Traer versus llenar

  • “Nevermind the kai tote from the passage in Matthew that puts to rest your apparent fears that self-examination precludes any subsequent judgment.”

    The State of Connecticut attacks the Catholic Church

  • “Heath Ceramics 'new tote is no exception, designed by Heather Moore of Skinny LaMinx and printed in the Bay Area.”

    July 2008

  • “If that Marc Jacobs frock seems meant for an Olsen twin, that Marc Jacobs quilted tote is one-size-fits-all.”

    Carried Away

  • “I mean bags as in tote bags, carryalls, satchels - the kind made to stuff all kinds of “baggage” in.”

    Sunday Scribblings-With Baggage

  • “For all those classy ladies who don't want to settle for anything less than elegant, this Cocolave crocodile tote from the Italian luxury house”

    Born Rich

  • “About 65\% of floor plans and the others were what they call, they're note financing lines they call tote-the-note lines.”

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  • “He used the word tote in the African sense, to carry, to bear.”

    Behind the scenes,

  • “The tote is a translucent smoke tone, with white trim, and measures 20 in by 6.5 in by 13 inches.”

    Splendicity

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hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. bag
  1. transport
  1. carry

rhymes (43)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Capote
  2. Choate
  3. Vote
  4. afloat
  5. bloat
  6. boat
  7. capote
  8. choate
  1. coat
  2. connote
  3. cote
  4. demote
  5. denote
  6. devote
  7. dote
  8. float
  1. gloat
  2. goat
  3. groat
  4. grote
  5. haute
  6. hote
  7. kote
  8. misquote
  1. moat
  2. mote
  3. note
  4. oat
  5. outvote
  6. overwrote
  7. pote
  8. promote
  1. quote
  2. remote
  3. rewrote
  4. roat
  5. rote
  6. sloat
  7. throat
  8. underwrote
  1. unquote
  2. vote
  3. wrote

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. shop-pan
  1. tote-team
  1. tote
  1. Korngold
  1. board
  1. tote-load
  1. tut

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  1. fashion
  1. handbag
  1. bags
  1. purse
  1. carry

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