What does TOR mean?

Definitions for TOR
tɔrtor

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tornoun

    a prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill

  2. tornoun

    a high rocky hill

Wiktionary

  1. tornoun

    ("hard, difficult; strong; rich").

  2. tornoun

    A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill.

  3. tornoun

    A hill.

  4. Tornoun

    Toronto

  5. Tornoun

    an implementation of second-generation onion routing.

  6. tornoun

    Plural form of torus.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Tornoun

    Etymology: tor , Saxon.

ChatGPT

  1. tor

    A tor is a large, free-standing rock outcrop that rises abruptly from the surrounding landscape. It is typically a mass of layers of hard rocks, often granite, that have progressively eroded due to weather conditions, leaving behind the stony protrusion. Tors are common in mountainous areas and hilly terrains, notably in the British Isles.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tornoun

    a tower; a turret

  2. Tornoun

    high-pointed hill; a rocky pinnacle

Wikidata

  1. Tor

    A tor is a large, free-standing residual mass that rises abruptly from the surrounding smooth and gentle slopes of a rounded hill summit or ridge crest. In the South West of England, where the term originated, it is also a word used for the hills themselves – particularly the high points of Dartmoor in Devon and Bodmin Moor in Cornwall.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Tor

    tor, n. a hill, a rocky height. [A.S. torr, tor—W. tor; Gael. torr.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. tor

    A high rock or peak: also a tower, thus retaining the same meaning it had, as torr, with the Anglo-Saxons.

Editors Contribution

  1. TOR

    Totally Offgrid Reality. Used as a gateway to unregulated, free, old school, anarchistic, extremely diverse, at your own risk internet.


    Submitted by anonymous on June 4, 2018  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. TOR

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tor is ranked #54752 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Tor surname appeared 376 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Tor.

    39.3% or 148 total occurrences were White.
    36.1% or 136 total occurrences were Asian.
    11.9% or 45 total occurrences were Black.
    8.5% or 32 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Anagrams for TOR »

  1. ort

  2. OTR

  3. rot

  4. RTO

  5. TRO

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of TOR in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of TOR in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of TOR in a Sentence

  1. Jamie Bartlett:

    A special browser called Tor allows a user to browse the internet without their IP address being given away, it uses a clever encryption system that means no one can see what computer a user is on.

  2. Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi:

    Tor maire chudi

  3. Confucius:

    Drum sei kein schellenlauter Tor, denn rechter Sinn und Weisheit tragen sich von selber vor.

  4. Sascha Meinrath:

    Tor, Lantern, all the VPNs, anything that's masking who you are or where you're going — Telegram — everything, downloads are increasing dramatically, and it's a bootstrapping thing, so the people that are on Telegram, they're using that to swap notes about what else you should download.

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