Toe

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English

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Human toes


Noun

Toe (plural Toes)
  1. Each of the five digits on the end of the foot.
  2. An equivalent part in an animal.
  3. That part of a shoe or sock covering the toe.
  4. Something resembling a toe, especially at the bottom or extreme end of something.
    (golf) the extreme end of the head of a club.
    (cricket) the tip of the bat farthest from the handle
  5. An alignment of the wheels of a road vehicle with positive toe (or toe in) signifying that the wheels are closer together at the front than at the back and negative toe (or toe out) the opposite.

Synonyms

  • (an equivalent part in an animal): hoof

Antonyms

  • (each of the five digits on the end of the foot): heel

Hyponyms

Holonyms

  • (each of the five digits on the end of the foot): foot

Meronyms

  • (each of the five digits on the end of the foot): nail

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

  • (each of the five digits on the end of the foot): finger

Verb

Toe (third-person singular simple present Toes, present participle toeing, simple past and past participle toed)

  1. To touch, tap or kick with the toes.
    • 2010 Mark Vesty Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal
    Just five minutes later the turnaround was complete when Arshavin toed the ball through to Bendtner, who slotted into the left corner from close range just before half-time.
  2. (golf) To mishit a golf ball with the toe of the club.

Derived terms

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Adjectives for Toe

jagged; elfin; pliant; superfluous; contemptuous; shuffling; blunt; nimble; outraged; fantastic; dance-weary; festered; infected.

Verbs for Toe

amputate—; bare—; brace—; bruise—; cramp—; crush—; dance on—; deform—; dislocate—; distort—; flex—; fracture—; pad—; sever—; skip on —s; splint—; stub —; teeter on—; web—;" —pinches; —projects; —protrudes.

Thesaurus

arch, base, baseboard, basement, chassis, clubfoot, dado, digit, dog, extremity, fetlock, foot, footing, forefoot, forepaw, foundation, frame, harefoot, heel, hoof, instep, keel, mopboard, nadir, pad, pastern, patte, paw, pedal extremity, pedes, pes, pied, pug, shoemold, sole, splayfoot, tip, tootsy, trotter, ungula, wainscot

Etymology

Middle English to, from Old English tā, (Mercian) tāhe, from Proto-Germanic *taihwōn (cf. Dutch teen, German Zehe, Swedish tå), from Proto-Germanic *tīhwanan (“to show, announce”) (cf. Old English teōn 'to accuse', German zeihen 'id.'), from Proto-Indo-European *deik̑- 'to show' (cf. Hittite tekkuššāi, Latin dīcere 'to say', digitus 'finger', Ancient Greek deíknynai, Sanskrit dídeṣṭi, diśáti).

Pronunciation

Translations

Noun

each of the five digits on the end of the foot
any equivalent part in an animal
part of a shoe or sock covering the toe
something resembling a toe, especially at the bottom or extreme end of something
alignment of the wheels of a road vehicle
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Anagrams

Dutch

Adverb

Toe

  1. Adverbial form of the preposition tot; to
    Het doet er niet toe. - It doesn't matter.
    Note: Only occurs as separable part of some compounds, not as a single word.
  2. after, afterwards
    Hij kreeg nog wat lekkers toe.
    He got something tasty afterwards.

Derived terms

Adjective

Toe (used only predicatively)

  1. closed (especially as part of a compound verb like toedoen)
    De deur is toe. - The door is closed.
    Doe de deur toe. - Close the door.

Interjection

Toe

  1. come on!, go on! (used when trying to coax someone into doing something)
    Toe maar!

Derived terms

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Etymology

From Old Dutch *tuo, from Proto-Germanic *tō.

Pronunciation

Finnish

Noun

Toe

  1. (rare) A small dam, usually made of logs.

Declension

Declension of Toe (type hame)
singular plural
nominative Toe tokeet
genitive tokeen tokeiden
tokeitten
partitive toette tokeite
accusative Toe
tokeen 		tokeet
inessive tokeesse tokeisse
elative tokeeste tokeiste
illative tokeeseen tokeisiin
tokeihin
adessive tokeelle tokeille
ablative tokeelte tokeilte
allative tokeelle tokeille
essive tokeene tokeine
translative tokeeksi tokeiksi
instructive – tokein
abessive tokeette tokeitte
comitative – tokeineen

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