What's the difference between bote and tote?

Bote


Definition:

  • (n.) Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.
  • (n.) Payment of any kind.
  • (n.) A privilege or allowance of necessaries.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A septal lesion has similar effects on boting 24-hour rhythm of either of these hormones but potentiated the response of both corticosterone and growth hormone to stress even though the direction of response is opposite.
  • (2) Zhang Boting, the deputy general secretary of the China Society for Hydropower Engineering, told the Guardian that a massive dam on the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo - the Tibetan name for the river - would benefit the world, despite the likely concerns of downstream nations, India and Bangladesh, which access water and power from the river.
  • (3) The aim of the research is to describe a model for research in Nursing from the Model of Botes (1989).

Tote


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To carry or bear; as, to tote a child over a stream; -- a colloquial word of the Southern States, and used esp. by negroes.
  • (n.) The entire body, or all; as, the whole tote.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are wild beaches for those prepared to tote their own supplies, but most have a shack selling drinks, ice-creams and snacks.
  • (2) Almost uniquely in Europe he gave us not a gun-toting paramilitary gendarmerie but "citizens in uniform", an unarmed police force under civilian control.
  • (3) 7.24pm GMT The message that Jindal has been toting around the country since last year's election losses is that the national party needs to stop putting its focus on nitpicky changes to federal budget and instead work on highlighting entrepreneurs and growth opportunities across the country.
  • (4) His monstrous wardrobe, his entourages of 300 or 400 ferried in four aeroplanes, his huge bedouin tent, complete with accompanying camel, pitched in public parks or in the grounds of five-star hotels – and his bodyguards of gun-toting young women, who, though by no means hiding their charms beneath demure Islamic veils, were all supposedly virgins, and sworn to give their lives for their leader.
  • (5) But it's the images of women and their children marching through the night that stick most in the mind: infants toting cardboard coffins, mothers chanting hate.
  • (6) Members of its armed wing, in black masks and toting large guns, took control of Gaza streets as the deep throb of resistance songs blasted from speakers.
  • (7) While a more traditional tote or hold-all designer bag often comes in at four figures, these clutches are significantly cheaper – around the £200 mark.
  • (8) Upstairs from the shop, full of quirky impulse buys such as Gemma Correll's Pugs not Drugs tote bags and Emily Warren's papier-mâché busts, there's studio and workshop space, with screen-printing equipment and sewing machines for regular workshops of up to six people.
  • (9) Anya was like, Adder actually, and Mary Portas was like, now move on ladies, what matters is that Britfash is facing its biggest crisis since Cherie Blair went out with a matching Burberry tote and booties?
  • (10) She had also run a canny campaign in which she toted a rifle and went hunting, but also demonstrated a tenderness towards disadvantaged children.
  • (11) Nasr said he threw his hands up in surrender as gun-toting rebels approached.
  • (12) Tulsa remains Clark's most visceral book, an insider's view of a period in the mid-1960s when he was a teenager living what he calls, without irony, "the outlaw life" – shooting up speed, having sex with his strung-out girlfriends and hanging out with his gun-toting junkie friends.
  • (13) So now we have to start again, I went to Dave, babes, even if Mantel's literary kaftans conceal a bitter republican whose misguided hatred of the constitutional monarchy is surpassed only by her allegiance to the discredited regime of Joseph Stalin, whose statue, according to her LRB article, she outrageously proposes to erect in Budleigh Salterton's historic town centre, maybe you could have considered the availability of other on-trend & award-winning lady writers on vintage themes before you dissed the inspiration for our Hilary tote?
  • (14) They toted signs with slogans like “Healthcare is a Human Right” and “Salud Para Todos” (“Health for All”).
  • (15) Would Agent 47 have looked as powerful fighting gun-toting nuns that hadn't removed their habits and had worn sensible pumps instead of platform heels?
  • (16) Texans may get a bad rap, sometimes stereotyped as gun-toting, home-schooled Bible-thumpers, but the truth is Texas is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse states in the union.
  • (17) Partridge's well received (and long-awaited) big screen debut, Alpha Papa, featured the staff of Partridge's Norfolk broadcaster, North Norfolk Digital, taken hostage by a disgruntled colleague, played by Colm Meaney, leading to an unlikely gun-toting finale on Cromer pier.
  • (18) Lo and behold, Charlotte Hole, second from the left in the front row in this picture, totes what the Mail says is a £1,100 Mulberry handbag.
  • (19) Warner Bros might be responsible for having turned the caped crusader into a gun-toting, knuckle-headed bore, but at least the studio knows how to have a joke at its own expense.
  • (20) Unable to bring their camera-toting car to the Italian lagoon city, where gondolas and canals stand in for vehicles and roads, the internet firm sent instead physically fit technicians to walk Venice's alleys wearing a backpack-mounted camera.

Words possibly related to "bote"