What's the difference between tome and tote?

Tome


Definition:

  • (n.) As many writings as are bound in a volume, forming part of a larger work; a book; -- usually applied to a ponderous volume.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Differing patterns of calcium distribution were observed in the ameloblast seemingly associated with the appearance of Tomes' process.
  • (2) The arts and social space in Deptford opened in 2015 after three years of fundraising and it now runs a programme of gigs, screenings, talks and performances, as well as being home to Tome Records, which has a distractingly good selection of vinyl, as well as tapes and zines.
  • (3) The stereotypical view of the historian is that of a stodgy, bespectacled individual poring over tomes of printed text, dusty manuscripts, and thousands of index cards.
  • (4) This kind of material also could be seen in the spaces between the Tomes' processes and the enamel matrix, and in the vesicles of the Golgi apparatus.
  • (5) In examination of ground sections of human third maxillary molar teeth, the granular layer of Tomes was shown to consist of expansion of dentinal tubules.
  • (6) The Arsenal manager had said that he might have to delve for the tome to reacquaint himself with the meaning of crisis.
  • (7) Without colchicine in the medium, many small vesicles containing HRP were located in the Tomes' processes, whereas only a few were present with colchicine at concentrations above 5 microM.
  • (8) Preparations from EFAD rats showed a gradual decrease of the tome with time.
  • (9) Twice as much calmodulin and calpactin II were detected in cell bodies as in Tomes' processes, but calcimedin was more abundant in the latter.
  • (10) The disturbances in mineralization were characterized by accumulations of unmineralized enamel matrix at the secretory regions of Tomes' process within 1 h after injection.
  • (11) Bookcases line the property: there are tomes on Hitler, Disney, Titanic, J Edgar Hoover, proverbs, quotations, fables, grammar, the Beach Boys, top 40 pop hits, baseball, Charlie Chaplin – any and every topic.
  • (12) On the floor was a pile of McQueen’s beloved reference books: Living Jewels, a huge tome of exquisite closeups of beetles, and another on German artist Rebecca Horn ’s installation piece Moon Mirror.
  • (13) Finally, there was a slower secretion of labeled proteins out of Tomes' processes between 1 and 4 h after injection.
  • (14) A bookshop clerk confirmed that politically sensitive tomes, such as those produced by the missing booksellers, would no longer be stocked.
  • (15) Into this depressing scene drops a 250-page radical tome from Dominic Cummings , Michael Gove's charismatically influential adviser.
  • (16) Newton coined the term in 1687 in his famous tome, Principia Mathematica, and for 200 years scientists were happy to think of mass as something that simply existed.
  • (17) A similar arrangement of wavy rows of ameloblasts at the level of distal terminal web and Tomes' processes was also seen in monkey teeth.
  • (18) Abraham is said to have pursued the role running C4 doggedly, quietly breakfasting opinion formers, publishing an impressive art house tome about his two-year rebranding of the UKTV digital channels, led by Dave, and trying to woo anyone who might be close to the decision-making process.
  • (19) Large type HID-TCH-SP stain deposits, approximately 10 nm in diameter, were detected on the interdigitating cell membrane of Tomes' process, inside some secretory granules, on the lateral cell membrane of stratum intermedium, in the basement membranes associated with outer enamel epithelium and endothelial cells of capillary, within the so-called hole region, and in the enamel matrix near future enamel-cement junction.
  • (20) Until Martin Blogg quoted us a line or two from Simon Inglis' historical tome Villa Park 100 Years, that is: "Aston Villa Football Club was founded by pupils of the Aston Villa Wesleyan Chapel Sunday school.

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.

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