different between purse vs tote
purse
English
Etymology
From Middle English purse, from Old English purs (“purse”), partly from pusa (“wallet, bag, scrip”) and partly from burse (“pouch, bag”).
Old English pusa comes from Proto-Germanic *pusô (“bag, sack, scrip”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?s- (“to swell, stuff”), and is cognate with Old High German pfoso (“pouch, purse”), Low German p?se (“purse, bag”), Old Norse posi (“purse, bag”), Danish pose (“purse, bag”). Old English burse comes from Medieval Latin bursa (“leather bag”) (compare English bursar), from Ancient Greek ????? (búrsa, “hide, wine-skin”).
Compare also Old French borse (French bourse), Old Saxon bursa (“bag”), Old High German burissa (“wallet”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p??s/
- (US) IPA(key): /p?s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)s
Noun
purse (plural purses)
- A small bag for carrying money.
- 1550 Mierdman, Steuen, The market or fayre of usurers
- And then mu?t many a man occupie as farre as his pur?e would reache, and ?tretche out his legges accordynge to the length of his couerlet.
- 1550 Mierdman, Steuen, The market or fayre of usurers
- (US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
- A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
- (historical) A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.
Synonyms
- (small bag for carrying money): pocketbook; coin purse, change purse
- (especially US)
- (small bag used by women): handbag (especially UK)
- (quantity of money): bursary, grant
Derived terms
Related terms
- bursa, bursar, bursary
- reimburse
Translations
See also
- wallet
Verb
purse (third-person singular simple present purses, present participle pursing, simple past and past participle pursed)
- (transitive) To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
- 1901, Matilde Serao, The Land of Cockayne, translator not credited, London: Heinemann, Chapter IV, p. 72, [1]
- The serving Sister pursed up her lips to remind him of the cloistral rule, almost as if she wanted to prevent any conversation between him and the nun.
- 1916, Leonid Andreyev, "An Original" in The Little Angel and Other Stories, translated by W. H. Lowe, New York: Alfred Knopf, p. 85, [2]
- Anton Ivanovich pursed up his lower lip so that his grey moustache pressed against the tip of his red pitted nose, took in all the officials with his rounded eyes, and after an unavoidable pause emitted a fat unctuous laugh.
- 1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
- When you're feeling in the dumps
- Don't be silly chumps
- Just purse your lips and whistle – that's the thing.
- 2002, R.M.W. Dixon, Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, Cambridge University Press, 2004, Chapter 9, p. 403,
- […] Yidinj has just one prefix dja:- 'in the direction of' […] . There is a noun djawa 'mouth' in a number of neighbouring languages […] and it is likely that this developed into the prefix dja:-. The semantic motivation would be the fact that Aborigines typically indicate direction by pointing with pursed lips (in circumstances where Europeans would extend a hand or index finger).
- 1901, Matilde Serao, The Land of Cockayne, translator not credited, London: Heinemann, Chapter IV, p. 72, [1]
- To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene 3, 1756-9, [3]
- […] thou […] didst contract and purse thy brow together, / As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain / Some horrible conceit: […]
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 13, [4]
- Upon hearing Billy's version, the sage Dansker seemed to divine more than he was told; and after a little meditation during which his wrinkles were pursed as into a point, quite effacing for the time that quizzing expression his face sometimes wore, "Didn't I say so, Baby Budd?"
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene 3, 1756-9, [3]
- To put into a purse.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venise, Act I, Scene 3, 502, [5]
- And I will go and purse the ducats straight,
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venise, Act I, Scene 3, 502, [5]
- (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To steal purses; to rob.
- 1616, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Scornful Lady, Act I, Scene 1, in The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Edinburgh, 1812, Vol. 2, pp. 147-8, [6]
- Why I'll purse; if that raise me not, I'll bet at bowling alleys, or man whores: I would fain live by others.
- 1616, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Scornful Lady, Act I, Scene 1, in The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Edinburgh, 1812, Vol. 2, pp. 147-8, [6]
Synonyms
- pucker
Derived terms
- pursy
- unpurse
Translations
Anagrams
- Pre-Us, Rupes, puers, pures, re-ups, reups, rupes, sprue, super, super-
Estonian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?purse/
Noun
purse (genitive purske, partitive purset)
- outburst
- eruption
- explosion
- spurt, gush
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
- seemnepurse
Finnish
Etymology
pursua +? -e
Noun
purse
- (metallurgy) flash
Declension
Anagrams
- persu, perus, perus-, super-
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tote
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /t??t/
- (US) IPA(key): /to?t/
- Rhymes: -??t
Etymology 1
Probably from Low German tute ("bag"). Cognate with German Tüte (“bag”). Most likely not of Germanic origin. Confer Finnish tuoda (“to carry, bear, bring, fetch, get”).
Noun
tote (plural totes)
- A tote bag.
- A heavy burden.
- (logistics) A kind of plastic box used for transporting goods.
- 2012, Chittaranjan Kole, Chandrashekhar P. Joshi, David R. Shonnard, Handbook of Bioenergy Crop Plants (page 129)
- They can be used for palleted bags, totes, or bales and can also be used to transport large logs.
- 2012, Chittaranjan Kole, Chandrashekhar P. Joshi, David R. Shonnard, Handbook of Bioenergy Crop Plants (page 129)
Translations
Verb
tote (third-person singular simple present totes, present participle toting, simple past and past participle toted)
- (Southern US) To carry or bear.
- 1980, Stephen King, The Wedding Gig
- It took ten pallbearers to carry her coffin. There was a picture of them toting it in one of the tabloids.
- 1980, Stephen King, The Wedding Gig
Translations
Etymology 2
Short for total, with e to distinguish from tot in writing.
Alternative forms
- tot
Verb
tote (third-person singular simple present totes, present participle toting, simple past and past participle toted)
- To add up; to calculate a total.
Translations
Etymology 3
Short for totalizator.
Noun
tote (plural totes)
- (Britain, Australia) A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator.
- 1892, Banjo Paterson, The Man from Ironbark
- He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,
- He laid the odds and kept a "tote", whatever that may be,
- 1892, Banjo Paterson, The Man from Ironbark
- (Britain, Australia) Pari-mutuel betting.
Translations
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
tote
- inflection of tot:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Ido
Etymology
tota (“whole, entire”) +? -e (“adverb”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?to.te/
Adverb
tote
- entirely, perfectly, thoroughly
Related terms
- tota (“whole, entire”)
- totala (“total”)
- totale (“totally”)
- entote (“ensemble, altogether, on the whole, in all, in a body, bodily, overall”)
Interlingua
Determiner
tote
- (quantifying) all, the entire
Japanese
Romanization
tote
- R?maji transcription of ??
Latin
Pronunciation
(Classical) IPA(key): /?to.te/, [?t??t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?to.te/, [?t???t??]
Adjective
tote
- vocative masculine singular of totus
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch tuote, equivalent to toe + te.
Preposition
t?te
- up to, towards, to (a specific destination or point in time)
- at (a specific point in time)
- with respect to
Alternative forms
- tot, toete, toet
Descendants
- Dutch: tot
- Afrikaans: tot
- Limburgish: tót
Further reading
- “tote (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “tote (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
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