Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A trip with visits to various places of interest for business, pleasure, or instruction.
- noun A group organized for such a trip or for a shorter sightseeing excursion.
- noun A brief trip to or through a place for the purpose of seeing it.
- noun A journey to fulfill a round of engagements in several places.
- noun A shift, as in a factory.
- noun A period of duty at a single place or job.
- noun Sports A series of professional tournaments, as in golf.
- intransitive verb To travel from place to place, especially for pleasure.
- intransitive verb To travel among various places while fulfilling engagements.
- intransitive verb To make a tour of.
- intransitive verb To present (a play, for example) on a tour.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To turn.
- To make a tour; travel about.
- To make a tour or circuit of: as, to
tour an island. - noun A Middle English form of
tower . - noun A turn: a revolution.
- noun A turn, course, or shift, as of duty or work: originally a military use.
- noun A turn round some place; a going round from place to place; a continued ramble or excursion; a short journey: as, a wedding tour.
- noun A turn, drive, or carriage promenade in a park or other place of fashionable resort for driving.
- noun A fashionable drive, or resort for driving, as that in Hyde Park, London.
- noun Turn; cast; drift.
- noun Synonyms Trip, Excursion, etc. See
journey .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A going round; a circuit; hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a comprehensive excursion.
- noun obsolete A turn; a revolution.
- noun (Mil.) anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn.
- noun obsolete A tower.
- intransitive verb To make a tourm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc. - noun A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
- noun A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing
concerts . - noun sports A
trip taken to anothercountry in which severalmatches are played. - noun military A
tour of duty . - verb intransitive To make a
journey ; as, to tour throughout a country. - verb transitive To make a
circuit of a place - verb obsolete To
toot ahorn . - noun dated A
tower .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area
- verb make a tour of a certain place
- noun a period of time spent in military service
- noun a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I use the term tour de force here because of Clements master touch with sumi ink, but also because the drawing is an assemblage of individually elaborated drawings on 10 x 8 inch sheets of paper.
Anne Couillaud: Still Life as Landscape : Dawn Clements' New Exhibition at Pierogi's Anne Couillaud 2012
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I use the term tour de force here because of Clements master touch with sumi ink, but also because the drawing is an assemblage of individually elaborated drawings on 10 x 8 inch sheets of paper.
Anne Couillaud: Still Life as Landscape : Dawn Clements' New Exhibition at Pierogi's Anne Couillaud 2012
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It seems one of those achievements that deserves the label tour de force, even though eventual new treatments for this particular, aggressive disease are still sheer speculation.
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It seems one of those achievements that deserves the label tour de force, even though eventual new treatments for this particular, aggressive disease are still sheer speculation.
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Squaddie on Tour – as an ex army bod myself I can agree with (did August one year in NI in an old INIBA) however, a tour is a tour – cops do it without a break for years and years! not that it competes with the heat and danger of ops though! come and join us when you are done?
Police Body Armour Heatwave Shock! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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More information about the tour is available at the group's Web site, www. ermcc.com, or by calling 571-269-4383.
Businesses join to sell homeowners on the value of green remodeling Elizabeth Razzi 2010
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The band's lineup on this tour is the “classic” 1992-1996 quintet, so only songs from that era were part of the setlist.
Live last night: Nine innings with Guided By Voices David Malitz 2010
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This tour is all about ratcheting up enthusiasm for traditionally Democratic groups.
With Days Left Until Midterms, Obama Campaigns Out West 2010
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Jackson says her tour is aimed at empowering local officials and grass-roots activists who can help reverse that trend — by stopping harmful development projects before they begin, or by starting or accelerating cleanup of polluted sites.
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One major expense for the tour is the cost of converting the truck to run on vegetable oil, estimated at a frugal $2,000.
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