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Ramble vs Tour - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between ramble and tour

is that ramble is a leisurely stroll; a recreational walk in the countryside while tour is a journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.

As verbs the difference between ramble and tour

is that ramble is to move about aimlessly, or on a winding course while tour is to make a journey; as, to tour throughout a country.

As a proper noun Tour is

the Tour de France.

ramble

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A leisurely stroll; a recreational walk in the countryside.
  • * 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 16
  • Marianne was prevailed upon to join her sisters in their usual walk, instead of wandering away by herself. Hitherto she had carefully avoided every companion in her rambles . If her sisters intended to walk on the downs, she directly stole away towards the lanes
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  • A rambling; an instance of someone talking at length without direction.
  • (mining) A bed of shale over the seam of coal.
  • (Raymond)
  • A section of woodland suitable for leisurely walking.
  • Verb

  • To move about aimlessly, or on a winding course
  • To walk for pleasure; to amble or saunter.
  • To talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions.
  • Francine has a tendency to ramble when it gets to be late in the evening.

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    tour

    English

    (wikipedia tour)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
  • A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
  • A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
  • A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
  • (military) A tour of duty.
  • (obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
  • * Milton
  • The bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour .
  • (obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
  • the tours of the heavenly bodies
    (Blackmore)
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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a journey; as, to tour throughout a country.
  • To make a circuit of a place
  • Etymology 2

    (etyl) tor, (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) A tower.
  • Etymology 3

    See toot.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To toot a horn.
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