Tour vs Nontouring - What's the difference?
tour | nontouring |
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
(obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
Not touring.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 9, author=Richard Sandomir, title=Larsen's Feat Lives in Amateur Movies, work=New York Times
, passage=Al Mengert, a nontouring golf pro then at Winged Foot, who finished in a four-way tie for ninth at the 1958 Masters, focused his 16-millimeter camera on the field from between home plate and third base. }}
As a proper noun tour
is (cycling) the tour de france.As an adjective nontouring is
not touring.tour
English
(wikipedia tour)Etymology 1
From (etyl) tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.Noun
(en noun)- The bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour .
- the tours of the heavenly bodies
- (Blackmore)
Derived terms
* (l) *Etymology 2
(etyl) tor, (etyl)Etymology 3
See toot.References
*Anagrams
* * ----nontouring
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Adjective
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