What Does Towel Mean?

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Definitions for towelˈtaʊ əl, taʊltow·el

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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. towelverb

   a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping

2. towelverb

   wipe with a towel

   "towel your hair dry"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. towelnoun

   A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as a person after a bath.

2. towelverb

   To hit with a towel.

3. towelverb

   To dry by using a towel.

   He got out of the shower and toweled himself dry.

4. Etymology: From towel, from toaille (Modern touaille), of origin, from Low *, from þwahilō, from þwahanan, from twak-. Cognate with dwahila (Modern dialectal Zwehle), dwaal, dweil, þwean.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Towelnoun

   A cloath on which the hands are wiped.

   Etymology: touaille, French; touaglio, Italian.

   His arm must be kept up with a napkin or towel. Richard Wiseman.

   Th’ attendants water for their hands supply,And having wash’d, with silken towels dry. John Dryden, Æn.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Towel

   A towel is a piece of absorbent fabric or paper used for drying or wiping a body or a surface. It draws moisture through direct contact. In households, several types of fabric towels are used, including hand towels, bath towels, Bathrobes and kitchen towels. At the beach, people use beach towels. Paper towels are provided in commercial or office bathrooms via a dispenser for users to dry their hands. In households they are used for minor, precision, or particularly dirty jobs of wiping, cleaning, and drying.

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1. towel

   A towel is a type of absorbent fabric or paper used for drying or wiping. It is commonly used to clean hands, bodies or surfaces and is often used at home, in the gym, or at the beach. Towels come in various sizes, colors, and materials, some of which are specifically designed for certain uses like bathing, hand drying, or kitchen use.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Towelnoun

   a cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath

2. Towelverb

   to beat with a stick

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Towel

   A towel is a piece of absorbent fabric or paper used for drying or wiping. It draws moisture through direct contact, often using a blotting or a rubbing motion. Common household textile towels are made from cotton, rayon, bamboo, nonwoven fibers or a few other materials.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Towel

   tow′el, n. a cloth for wiping the skin after it is washed, and for other purposes: an altar-cloth.—ns. Tow′el-horse, -rack, a frame for hanging towels on; Tow′elling, cloth for towels: a thrashing.—A lead towel, a bullet; An oaken towel, a cudgel. [O. Fr. touaille—Old High Ger. twahilla (Ger. zwehle)—Old High Ger. twahan, to wash.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. towel

   A word very absurdly introduced into marine law. "If a mariner," says Molloy, "shall commit a fault, and the master shall lift up the towel three times before any mariner, and he shall not submit, the master at the next place of land may discharge him." Some think that this refers to an oaken stick, but it is no doubt corrupted from the oster la touaille, or turning a delinquent out of his mess, of the laws of Oleron.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. towel

   A type of product created and designed in various colors, materials, shapes, sizes and styles.

   Towels are so useful for a wide variety of things.

   Submitted by MaryC on February 17, 2020

Matched Categories

1. • Wipe

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'towel' in Nouns Frequency: #2558

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Anagrams for towel »

1. owlet

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of towel in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of towel in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of towel in a Sentence

1. Mandy Moore:

   I got to stare at his butt all day because in the scene he’s supposed to be naked, just covering his bits with a towel, because we’re supposed to be having some sexy time, so that was maybe the only awkward part.

2. Matt Sanders:

   She’s in a towel, and I ’m just like …' What ?'.

3. Jackson Fuqua:

   I saw a big trail of blood from the water to where the man was laying down on a beach towel. There were a lot of EMS workers all around him and they were frantically trying to help him and work to close the wounds he had.

4. Paul Dawson:

   You want to change that towel every few days. If you have multiple towels, just throw one in the washer and get a new one, and for sponges, microwaving them might be a better way to sanitize them than just putting antimicrobial liquid on them.

5. Scott Shelton:

   It feels like the bulls have thrown in the towel in their pursuit of pushing WTI up to $65.

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Popularity rank by frequency of use

towel#10000#10194#100000

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNethttp://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=towel
2. ^ Wiktionaryhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Towel
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionaryhttps://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=towel
4. ^ Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel
5. ^ ChatGPThttps://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionaryhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/towel
7. ^ Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=towel
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionaryhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=towel
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Termshttps://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=towel
10. ^ Usage in printed sourceshttps://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=towel

Translations for towel

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• handdoekAfrikaans
• منشفةArabic
• məhrəbaAzerbaijani
• таҫтамалBashkir
• ручнікBelarusian
• пешкир, кърпаBulgarian
• তোয়ালেBengali
• tovallolaCatalan, Valencian
• ručníkCzech
• tywelWelsh
• håndklædeDanish
• HandtuchGerman
• πετσέταGreek
• mantuko, viŝiloEsperanto
• toallaSpanish
• rätikEstonian
• حوله, آبچینPersian
• pyyheliina, pyyheFinnish
• hondklæði, handklæðiFaroese
• servietteFrench
• tuáilleIrish
• toallaGalician
• מגבתHebrew
• तौलियाHindi
• törülközőHungarian
• սրբիչArmenian
• handukIndonesian
• handklæðiIcelandic
• asciugamanoItalian
• タオルJapanese
• პირსახოციGeorgian
• сүлгіKazakh
• 수건, 타월Korean
• خاولیKurdish
• сүлгү, суулукKyrgyz
• manteleLatin
• ຂົນຫນູLao
• rankšluostisLithuanian
• dvielisLatvian
• крпа, пешкирMacedonian
• tualaMalay
• xugamanMaltese
• မျက်နှာသုတ်ပဝါBurmese
• håndkleNorwegian
• handdoekDutch
• handklede, handkleNorwegian Nynorsk
• ręcznikPolish
• toalhaPortuguese
• prosopRomanian
• полотенцеRussian
• ручник, ubrus, peškir, ručnik, убрус, пешкирSerbo-Croatian
• uterák, ručníkSlovak
• brisačaSlovene
• peshqirAlbanian
• handdukSwedish
• tauloSwahili
• துவாலைTamil
• తువాలుTelugu
• сачоқ, дастурӯпоккун, танпоккунTajik
• ผ้าขนหนูThai
• polotense, polotensteTurkmen
• tuwalyaTagalog
• peşkir, havluTurkish
• сөлгеTatar
• рушникUkrainian
• sochiqUzbek
• khănVietnamese
• האַנטעךYiddish

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