different between tote vs hote

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)

1. A tote bag.
2. A heavy burden.
3. (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.

Translations

Verb

tote (third-person singular simple present totes, present participle toting, simple past and past participle toted)

1. (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.

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)

1. To add up; to calculate a total.

Translations

Etymology 3

Short for totalizator.

Noun

tote (plural totes)

1. (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,

2. (Britain, Australia) Pari-mutuel betting.

Translations

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

tote

1. inflection of tot:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Ido

Etymology

tota (“whole, entire”) +? -e (“adverb”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?to.te/

Adverb

tote

1. 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

1. (quantifying) all, the entire

Japanese

Romanization

tote

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /?to.te/, [?t??t??]

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?to.te/, [?t???t??]

Adjective

tote

1. vocative masculine singular of totus

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch tuote, equivalent to toe + te.

Preposition

t?te

1. up to, towards, to (a specific destination or point in time)
2. at (a specific point in time)
3. 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

English

Etymology

From Middle English hoten, hoaten, haten, from Old English h?tan (“to command, be called”), from Proto-Germanic *haitan? (“command, name”), from Proto-Indo-European *keyd-, from *key- (“put in motion, be moving”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian heete (“to be named”), Dutch heten (“to be named”), German Low German heten (“to be called, be named”), German heißen (“to be called”), Swedish heta (“to be called”). Related to hight, hest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Verb

hote (third-person singular simple present hotes, present participle hoting, simple past hight, past participle hoten)

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To command; to enjoin.

2. (obsolete) To promise.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To be called, be named.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To call, name.

Usage notes

• In the sense of "to command, enjoin", hight may be replaced as follows:

• The captain hight five sailors stay on the other side of the inlet and guard the cargo. = The captain said to five sailors: Stay on the other side of the inlet and guard the cargo.
• Beowulf hight his men build a great mead-hall, the kind of which man's progeny should hear tell forever. = Beowulf said to his men: Build a great mead-hall, the kind of which man's progeny should hear tell forever.

• The word survives only as part of the oral tradition in rural Scotland and Northern England. It is no longer used in common speech.

Related terms

• behote

Anagrams

• Theo, Theo., etho-, theo, theo-

Middle English

Noun

hote

1. Alternative form of ote