What does towel mean?
Definitions for towel
ˈtaʊ əl, taʊltow·el
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word towel.
Princeton's WordNet
towel(verb)
a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping
towel(verb)
wipe with a towel
"towel your hair dry"
Wiktionary
towel(Noun)
A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as a person after a bath.
towel(Verb)
To hit with a towel.
towel(Verb)
To dry by using a towel.
He got out of the shower and toweled himself dry.
Origin: From towel, from toaille (Modern touaille), of origin, from Low *, from þwahilō, from þwahanan, from twak-. Cognate with dwahila (Modern dialectal Zwehle), dwaal, dweil, þwean.
Webster Dictionary
Towel(noun)
a cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath
Towel(verb)
to beat with a stick
Freebase
Towel
A towel is a piece of absorbent fabric or paper used for drying or wiping. It draws moisture through direct contact, often using a blotting or a rubbing motion. Common household textile towels are made from cotton, rayon, bamboo, nonwoven fibers or a few other materials.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Towel
tow′el, n. a cloth for wiping the skin after it is washed, and for other purposes: an altar-cloth.—ns. Tow′el-horse, -rack, a frame for hanging towels on; Tow′elling, cloth for towels: a thrashing.—A lead towel, a bullet; An oaken towel, a cudgel. [O. Fr. touaille—Old High Ger. twahilla (Ger. zwehle)—Old High Ger. twahan, to wash.]
British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'towel' in Nouns Frequency: #2558
Anagrams for towel »
owlet
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of towel in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of towel in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of towel in a Sentence
She’s in a towel, and I ’m just like …' What ?'.
Always pack a towel and don't drink tap water, anywhere.
If you throw in your towel, someone may pick it up and use it better than you.
She runs into the room with only her towel on, and she’s on the phone with the police.
It feels like the bulls have thrown in the towel in their pursuit of pushing WTI up to $65.
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- handdoekAfrikaans
- منشفةArabic
- məhrəbaAzerbaijani
- таҫтамалBashkir
- ручнікBelarusian
- пешкир, кърпаBulgarian
- তোয়ালেBengali
- tovallolaCatalan, Valencian
- ručníkCzech
- tywelWelsh
- håndklædeDanish
- HandtuchGerman
- πετσέταGreek
- mantuko, viŝiloEsperanto
- toallaSpanish
- rätikEstonian
- حوله, آبچینPersian
- pyyhe, pyyheliinaFinnish
- handklæði, hondklæðiFaroese
- servietteFrench
- tuáilleIrish
- toallaGalician
- מגבתHebrew
- तौलियाHindi
- törülközőHungarian
- սրբիչArmenian
- handukIndonesian
- handklæðiIcelandic
- asciugamanoItalian
- タオルJapanese
- პირსახოციGeorgian
- сүлгіKazakh
- 타월, 수건Korean
- خاولیKurdish
- сүлгү, суулукKyrgyz
- manteleLatin
- ຂົນຫນູLao
- rankšluostisLithuanian
- dvielisLatvian
- пешкир, крпаMacedonian
- tualaMalay
- xugamanMaltese
- မျက်နှာသုတ်ပဝါBurmese
- håndkleNorwegian
- handdoekDutch
- handkle, handkledeNorwegian Nynorsk
- ręcznikPolish
- toalhaPortuguese
- prosopRomanian
- полотенцеRussian
- ручник, ručnik, пешкир, убрус, peškir, ubrusSerbo-Croatian
- uterák, ručníkSlovak
- brisačaSlovene
- peshqirAlbanian
- handdukSwedish
- tauloSwahili
- துவாலைTamil
- తువాలుTelugu
- дастурӯпоккун, танпоккун, сачоқTajik
- ผ้าขนหนูThai
- polotenste, polotenseTurkmen
- tuwalyaTagalog
- havlu, peşkirTurkish
- сөлгеTatar
- рушникUkrainian
- sochiqUzbek
- khănVietnamese
- האַנטעךYiddish
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