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Tour vs Tur - What's the difference?

tour | tur |

As nouns the difference between tour and tur

is that tour is a journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc while tur is a species of wild goat, species: Capra caucasica, native to the western Caucasus.

As a verb tour

is to make a journey; as, to tour throughout a country.

As a proper noun Tour

is the Tour de France.

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)
    Derived terms
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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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    tur

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A species of wild goat, , native to the western Caucasus.
  • * 2007 , Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road , Sceptre 2008, page 90:
    • Then to Hanukkah's mild surprise a voice rose up and, with laconic precision, likened this rumored brother Alp to the secretion on the nether parts of a she-tur .

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