tote

名词 n. 动词 v.
/təʊt/    /toʊt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tote bag.
  2. A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator. Australia,UK
    — He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee, He laid the odds and kept a "tote", whatever that may be,
  3. A heavy burden.
  4. Pari-mutuel betting. Australia,UK
  5. 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.
  6. The principal handle of a handplane, for gripping the plane.
    — Coordinate term: knob
动词 v.
  1. To carry or bear. Southern-US
    — "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?
  2. To add up; to calculate a total.

词形变化

totes plural totes present,singular,third-person toting participle,present toted participle,past toted past totes present,singular,third-person toting participle,present toted participle,past toted past tot alternative totes plural

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
Clipping of total, with e to distinguish from tot in writing.
词源 3
Clipping of totalizator.
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