Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: toe
IPA transcription: [t'oʊ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: toe
    Meaning: one of the digits of the foot
  • Synonyms: toe
    Meaning: the part of footwear that provides a covering for the toes
Usage examples
  • "See that head, there?" he asked, rolling it over with his toe.
  • And I find I have got no cold, though miserably wet from top to toe.
  • "Why, mam, it was simple enough; he pulled the trigger with his big toe.
  • Go out of doors, count three, stop and pick up the stone nearest to your toe.
  • Von Schlichten and Blount put in theirs, and Harrington pressed the floor-button with his toe.
  • That, for the use of the New World, I sing. Man's physiology complete, from top to toe, I sing.
  • The aviator dug his toe into the ground and still looking down, blurted something which he evidently hated to say.
  • Smerdyakov, who was looking at the ground again, and playing with the toe of his right foot, set the foot down, moved the left one forward, and, grinning, articulated:
  • "Yet, let not Mr. W. despair; he has given immortality to a wagon, and the bee Sophocles has transmitted to eternity a sore toe, and dignified a tragedy with a chorus of turkeys.
  • Cats alight softly on their feet, because in the middle of the foot is a large ball or pad in five parts, formed of an elastic substance, and at the base of each toe is a similar pad.