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Definition: Tout |
ToutNoun1. (British) someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit. 2. Someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way. 3. One who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack). Verb1. Advertize in strongly positive terms; "This product was touted as a revolutionary invention". 2. Show off. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tout" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Note: Tout \Tout\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Touted; Touting.]. (references) |
Synonyms: ToutSynonyms: ticket tout (n), tipster (n), touter (n), blow (v), bluster (v), boast (v), brag (v), gas (v), gasconade (v), shoot a line (v), swash (v), vaunt (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Book | Phrase: "among the giant fossils of my past"; craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux; "for authors nobler palms remain"; "I lived to write and wrote to live"; "look in thy heart and write"; "there is no Past so long as Books shall live"; "the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers"; "volumes that I prize above my dukedom". |
Change | Phrase: "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream"; nous avons change tout cela; tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis; non sum qualis eram; casaque tourner; corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur; in statu quo ante bellum; "still ending and beginning still"; vox audita perit littera scripta manet. |
Contrariety | Adjective: contrary, contrarious, contrariant; opposite, counter, dead against; converse, reverse; opposed, contrasted, antipodean, antagonistic, opposing; conflicting, inconsistent, contradictory, at cross purposes; negative; hostile. differing toto coelo; diametrically opposite; diametrically opposed; as opposite as black and white, as opposite as light and darkness, as opposite as fire and water, as opposite as the poles; as different as night and day; " Hyperion to a satyr"; quite the contrary, quite the reverse;no such thing, just the other way, tout au contraire. |
Earliness | Phrase: no sooner said than done, immediately, if not sooner; tout vient a temps pour qui sait attendre. |
Failure | Phrase: the bubble has burst, "the jig is up", "the game is up"; all is lost; the devil to pay; parturiunt montes; (disappointment); dies infaustus; tout est perdu hors l'honneur. |
Forgiveness | Phrase: veniam petimusque damusque vicissim; more in sorrow than in anger; comprendre tout c'est tout pardonner; " the offender never pardons". |
Knowledge | Phrase: one's eyes being opened; (disclosure); ompredre tout c'est tout pardonner; empta dolore docet experientia;gr/gnothi seauton/gr "half our knowledge we must snatch not take"; Jahre lehren mehr als Bucher; "knowledge comes but wisdom lingers"; "knowledge is power"; les affaires font les hommes; nec scire fas est omnia; "the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds"; was ich nicht weiss macht mich nicht heiss. |
Negation | Adverb: no, nay, not, nowise; not a bit, not a whit, not a jot; not at all, nohow, not in the least, not so; negative, negatory; no way; no such thing; nothing of the kind, nothing of the sort; quite the contrary, tout au contraire, far from it; tant s'en faut; on no account, in no respect; by no, by no manner of means; negatively. |
Perseverance | Phrase: never say die; give it the old college try; vestigia nulla retrorsum; aut vincer aut mori; la garde meurt et ne se rend pas; tout vient a temps pour qui sait attendre. |
Petitioner | Beggar, mendicant, moocher, panhandler, freeloader, sponger, mumper, sturdy beggar, cadger; hotel runner, runner, steerer, tout, touter. |
Quiescence | Adverb: at a stand; Adjective: tout court; at the halt. |
Request | Bespeak, canvass, tout, make interest, court; seek, bid for; (offer); publish the banns. |
Wealth | Amour fait beaucoup mais argent fait tout; aurea rumpunt tecta quietem; magna servitus ist magna fortuna; "mammon, the least erected spirit that fell from Heaven"; opum furiata cupido; vera prosperita e non aver necessita; wie gewonnen so zerronnen. |
Whole | Phrase: tout bien ou rien. |
All, the whole, total, aggregate, one and all, gross amount, sum, sum total, tout ensemble, length and breadth of, | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tout |
| Specialty definitions using "tout": Bells ♦ Cigogne, computer services division ♦ Daron, Daronne ♦ Gueux ♦ Horse., Hunger seasons Food, Hungry Dogs ♦ Intendance Militaire ♦ Jacques ♦ Loegria ♦ Nettoyer, Nous Avons Change Tout Cela ♦ Will not when They may. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tout": tutsan. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tout" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (all, all up, altogether, any, anything, at all, entire, entirely, every, every kind of, everything, in all, just, most important, quite, very, very much, whole, wholly), French Canadian (all), Haitian Creole (all), Manx (tout ). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Et si j'étais sourd J'apprendrais lire sur tes lèvres avec mes doights Comme ça. Même si tout ça doit finir mal Je suis enchanté de vous connaître, madame (Sirène du Mississippi, La; writing credit: François Truffaut) Tu savais tout et tu te laissais faire (Sirène du Mississippi, La; writing credit: François Truffaut) | |
Lyrics | Avec qui tout partager (Someone I love, Someone who loves me; performing artist: Dion) Plier tout tes bagages (Humana; performing artist: Fabian) Tout tenir dans tes mains (Humana; performing artist: Fabian) | |
Movie/TV Titles | C'est jeune et ça sait tout! (1974) Je sais rien mais je dirai tout (1973) Prenez la queue comme tout monde (1973) Tout le monde il en a deux (1973) Pour solde de tout compte (1972) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Où allons nous? -- Toujours tout droit. / Pigal. Lith. de Langlumé. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Les Remedes à tous maux. : Le Tout Par Precaution. / N. Guerard inv et fecit. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Tout à l'heure, bobonne, tout à l'heure. / Pigal. Lith. de Langlumé. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Danger de s'approcher du cadre renfermant les rateliers mécaniques, s'ouvrant et se fermant tout seuls. / Cham [i.e. Amédée Noé]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Elle. -Le médecin est un peu comme un confesseur? : Le Docteur. -...Alors vous lui faites voir tout ça?... / par Abel Faivre. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Les Préservatifs Préservent De Tout. De Tout, Sauf De L'Amour. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | C'est Tout De Même Plus Chouette De Vivre Quand On Est Désiré : Avortement et Contraception Libres et Gratuits. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Tout l'acier et le charbon pour nos usines. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Tout l'acier et le charbon pour nos usines. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Tout n'est que vanite --. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A tout venant le Coeur vend des Carreaux |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Taiwan | In addition to their pleasing and often new taste to the Taiwanese palate, natural fruit ingredients offer manufacturers opportunities to tout associated nutrition and health benefits. (references) |
Political Rights | Saint Lucia | The SLP won 14 of 17 seats and the UWP won 3. The other opposition parties--the National Alliance, led by former SLP Foreign Minister George Odlum; the STAFF (Sou Tout Apwe Fete Fini) Party, and the St. Lucia Freedom Party--did not win any seats. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tout" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "Tout" is used about 72 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 62.5% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 11.11% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.11% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.72% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Unclassified Items | 5.56% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 72 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tout" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tout | Last name | 130 | 59,619 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "tout": comprendre tout c'est tout pardonner ♦ craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux ♦ nous avons change tout cela ♦ ompredre tout c'est tout pardonner ♦ ticket tout ♦ tout a fait ♦ tout au contraire ♦ tout bien ou rien ♦ tout court ♦ tout ensemble ♦ tout est perdu hors l'honneur ♦ tout for custom ♦ tout vient a temps pour qui sait attendre. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tout": Tout-ensemble. | |
Ending with "tout": mange-tout. | |
Containing "tout": En-tout-cas. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "tout"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shitës shetitës (peddler), shes me këmbëngulje, parashikues garash vrapimesh, mbledh të dhëna. (various references) | |
Arabic | من يلتمس التأييد, محترف التجنيد, مستطلع أنباء سباق الخيل, سمسر في بيع البطاقات, زود بمعلومات سرية عن السبق, المنادي على الزبائن, إستوقف المارة, باع الرهانات, بائع متجول (crier, drummer, duffer, hawker, huckster, peddler, pedlar, purveyor, street hawker), بائع التذاكر في السوق الأسود. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | рекламирам шумно, хваля шумно, шпионирам (be on the lurk, gumshoe, spy), натрапвам (foist, intrude, lumber, obtrude, thrust, thrust in, thrust on), агитатор (agitator). (various references) | |
Czech | tipér, vychvalovat (belaud, cry up, extol, Laud, vaunt), překupník (middleman, trafficker), nahánìè kšeftù, lákat zákazníky, dryáèník (charlatan, humbug). (various references) | |
Danish | søge efter arbejde (to tout for work). (various references) | |
Dutch | klanten werven (to tout for work). (various references) | |
Farsi | مشتری جلب کردن , صدای نکره ایجادکردن , خریدارپیداکردن , بلندجارزدن , باصدای بلندانتشاردادن . (various references) | |
French | racoler. (various references) | |
German | wettberater, werben (advertise, attract, enlist, match, match-make, recruit, recruiting, to tout, win, woo), spion (busybody, mole, peephole, scout, spy, spy hole, window mirror), schwarzhändler (black marketeer, bootlegger, marketeer), schwarz verkaufen, schnüffler (bloodhound, dicks, nosey parker, private eye, sleuth, sniffer, snooper, snoopers, snuffler, snufflers), schlepper (hauler, haulers, tractor, tug, tugboat), kundenfänger, kartenschwarzhändler, herumschnüffeln (ferret about, ferret around, nose about, nose around, pry, sniff around, snoop around), ausspionieren (nose out), anbieten (estimate, introduce, offer, offer for sale, offers, present, proffer, quote, tender, to offer, volunteer). (various references) | |
Greek | κράχτησ (decoy), ζητώ πελάτασ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מש"ל לקוחות, לספסר (mediate, profiteer, speculate), ספסר (blackmarketer, middleman, profiteer, speculator). (various references) | |
Hungarian | felhajtó (booster, con man, fiddler, procurer, ramp). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menggembar-gemborkan (ballyhoo, propagandise, shout about), mendengungkan (propagandize, sound), mencanangkan (announce with, proclaim, propagandize). (various references) | |
Italian | sollecitare ordini, fare il procacciatore, fare il bagarinaggio, cercare clienti, bagarino (scalper), arruolare (draft, draught, enlist, enrol, enroll, join up, levy, recruit, sign on, sign up, woo). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 留め" (arbitrator), ぽ"引き (con-man, pimp, so-so, swindler, you might say), 客引き (barker, pander, touting), 呼び込み . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きゃくひき (barker, pander, touting), ぽ"びき (con-man, pimp, swindler), ぽ"ぴき (con-man, pimp, swindler), よび"み, とめおと" (arbitrator). (various references) | |
Manx | toutal, tout. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | outtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | angariar (canvass, collect, recruit), aliciar (attract, coax, entice, recruit). (various references) | |
Russian | шпионить (spied, spy), коммивояжер (commercial traveller, outrider, traveling salesman, travelling salesman), навязывающий свой товар, навязывать товар, предлагать (hold forth, hold out, offer, propose, proposing, suggest, suggesting, suggests, tender). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrbovati (recruit), reklamirati (advertise, advertize, plug, promote, push), domamljivač kupaca. (various references) | |
Spanish | tratar como (loosen up, traffic), solicitar clientes, reventa (abbroachement, resale), revender (resell), revendedor, pronosticador (forecaster, prognosticator), pregonero (auctioneer, Barker, crier), pregonar (hawk, trumpet), ofrecer (bargain, bid, come through with, come up with, extend, feature, give, hand around, hand round, hold, hold out, improve on, introduce, let out, light, make an offer of, offer, offer up, present, present with, proffer, put on the stage, put up, sacrifice, team, tender, throw, throw up, trade in, up, yield), gancho (claw, clinch, crotcheteer, gab, hook, jab, peg, pothook). (various references) | |
Swedish | kundvärvare. (various references) | |
Turkish | tiyocu (tipster), tiyo vermek (give tips, tip, tip off, tip smb. off, tip smb. the wink, tip the wink), yapışkan satıcı, müşteri çekmeye çalışmak, karaborsacılık etmek, karaborsacı (black marketeer, jobber, racketeer, spiv), çığırtkanlık etmek, çığırtkan (decoy bird, lure, runner). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | комівояжер (bagman, drummer, outrider, salesman, solicitor, traveller), нав'язувати товар, закликальник (booster, clicker, puller-in), зазивати покупців. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | tuten. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 10, Verse 7 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | H tiV katabhsetai eiV thn abusson tout estin criston ek nekrwn anagagein |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Aut quis descendit in abyssum hoc est Christum ex mortuis revocare |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Oððe ?Hwa sceal on deop geniðrian?' c (þæt is Cristum fram deadum aræran). |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Or who schal go doun in to helle? that is, to ayenclepe Crist fro deth. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Other who shall descende into the depe? (that is nothinge els but to fetch vp Christ from deeth) |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring Christ again from the dead.) |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Or, Who will go down into the deep? (that is, to make Christ come again from the dead:) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Romans Chapter 10, Verse 7 |
| Chinese | 誰 要 下 到 陰 " 去 呢 . 就 是 要 基 督 從 死 裡 上 來 。 』 |
| Croatian | Ili: Tko æe siæi u bezdan - to jest izvesti Krista od mrtvih? |
| Danish | eller: Hvem vil fare ned i Afgrunden? nemlig for at hente Kristus op fra de døde. |
| Dutch | Of, wie zal in den afgrond nederdalen? Hetzelve is Christus uit de doden opbrengen. |
| Finnish | tahi: "Kuka astuu alas syvyyteen?" se on: nostamaan Kristusta kuolleista. |
| French | ou: Qui descendra dans l`abîme? c`est faire remonter Christ d`entre les morts. |
| Italian | oppure: Chi discender nell'abisso? Questo significa far risalire Cristo dai morti. |
| Maori | Ko wai ranei hei heke iho ki te hohonu? ara ki te tiki atu i a te Karaiti i roto i te hunga mate. |
| Norwegian | eller: Hvem skal fare ned i avgrunnen - det vil si: for å hente Kristus op fra de døde - ? |
| Shuar | Tura ¿Yaki jakamunam we Krístun iniantkit?" tiirap" tawai. |
| Uma | Aga ria wo'o-pidi lolita Musa kahamela-na to mpo'uli' ma'ala-ta jadi' monoa' hi poncilo Alata'ala ngkai pepangala' -ta. Hewa toi moni-na: Neo' nu'uli' hi rala nono-nu: `Hema to mpakule' ngkahe' hilou hi suruga? Hema to bisa mana'u hilou hi po'ohaa' tomate?'" |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tout": touted, touter, touters, touting, touts. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tout": cutout, printout, putout, setout, shootout, shutout, stout, surtout. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tout": cutouts, printouts, putouts, setouts, shootouts, shutouts, stouten, stoutened, stoutening, stoutens, stouter, stoutest, stouthearted, stoutheartedly, stoutheartedness, stoutheartednesses, stoutish, stoutly, stoutness, stoutnesses, stouts, surtouts. (additional references) | |
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"Tout" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dout, otet, taui, tault, tauta, tauv, tauz, teut, thoot, thoust, thout, Tiju, titu, tju, toait, toaut, tobut, Tobutt, todt, toet, toit, Toity, tolu, tomt, tont, toosh, tooty, topt, toput, Tost, to't, tott, totu, totue, totum, tou, toub, touc, toud, toug, touk, toul, toum, toun, toup, tourt, toute, touth, touw, touy, touz, towt, tuit, tuoh, tuon, tuot, tuto, tutt, tutut, Tuuta, Tuuth, twou, twout, vout, vtsoft. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tout" (pronounced tou"t) |
| 3 | t ou" t | stout. |
| 2 | -ou" t | about, bout, clout, devout, doubt, drought, flout, gout, Grout, Kraut, out, pout, redoubt, scout, shout, snout, spout, sprout, throughout, trout, without. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "o-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: out, tot, tut. | |
-2 letters: to, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: putto, stout, touts, trout, tutor. | |
+2 letters: button, cutout, mutton, outact, outate, outeat, outfit, outhit, outjut, outlet, output, outsat, outset, outsit, outwit, prutot, putout, rotgut, setout, stouts, tautog, tenuto, toquet, touted, touter, trouts, trouty, tryout, turbot, tutors, utmost. | |
+3 letters: buttock, buttons, buttony, culotte, cutouts, fouette, futtock, glutton, mulatto, muttons, muttony, outacts, outcast, outdate, outeats, outfast, outfelt, outfits, outfoot, outhits, outhunt, outjuts, outkept, outlast, outlets, outmost, outpity, outplot, outport, outpost, outputs, outrate, outroot, outsert, outsets, outshot, outsits, outstay, outtake, outtalk, outtask, outtell, outtold, outtrot, outturn, outvote, outwait, outwent, outwept, outwits, outwrit, prutoth, putouts, quittor, rotguts, setouts, shutout, stouten, stouter, stoutly, surtout, takeout, tatouay, tautogs, tenutos, testudo, tetotum, thought, timeout, toluate, toquets, torture, tourist, touters, touting, trustor, tryouts, tugboat, tuition, turbots, turnout, tutored, tutoyed, tutoyer, utmosts, utopist, without. | |
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