Tote vs Transplant - What's the difference?
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To carry or bear.
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, title= To add up; to calculate a total.
(British) A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator
*1892 , Banjo Paterson,
*:He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,
*:He laid the odds and kept a "tote ", whatever that may be,
To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.
To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.
(medicine) To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.
An act of uprooting and moving (something).
Anything that is transplanted.
(medicine) An operation in which tissue or an organ is transplanted.
(medicine) A transplanted organ or tissue.
(US) Someone who is not native to their area of residence.
* 2012 , Lauren Collins, The New Yorker , 29 Oct 2012:
Tote is a related term of transplant.
As nouns the difference between tote and transplant
is that tote is or tote can be cadaver; corpse (female dead person) while transplant is an act of uprooting and moving (something).As a verb transplant is
to uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.tote
English
(wikipedia tote)Etymology 1
Verb
(tot)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.}}
Etymology 2
Shortening of (total), with e to distinguish from (tot) in writingAlternative forms
* totVerb
(tot)Etymology 3
Shortening of (totalizator)Noun
(en noun)transplant
English
Verb
(transplanting) (en verb)Noun
(en noun)- The Seigneur summoned the island's doctor, a young transplant from London named Peter Counsell, who determined that Mrs. Beaumont had suffered a stroke.