ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TOUR
From Old French: a turn, from Latin tornus a lathe, from Greek tornos; compare turn.
CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO TOUR
PRESENT
Present
I tour
you tour
he/she/it tours
we tour
you tour
they tour
Present continuous
I am touring
you are touring
he/she/it is touring
we are touring
you are touring
they are touring
Present perfect
I have toured
you have toured
he/she/it has toured
we have toured
you have toured
they have toured
Present perfect continuous
I have been touring
you have been touring
he/she/it has been touring
we have been touring
you have been touring
they have been touring
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The
present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.
PAST
Past
I toured
you toured
he/she/it toured
we toured
you toured
they toured
Past continuous
I was touring
you were touring
he/she/it was touring
we were touring
you were touring
they were touring
Past perfect
I had toured
you had toured
he/she/it had toured
we had toured
you had toured
they had toured
Past perfect continuous
I had been touring
you had been touring
he/she/it had been touring
we had been touring
you had been touring
they had been touring
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will tour
you will tour
he/she/it will tour
we will tour
you will tour
they will tour
Future continuous
I will be touring
you will be touring
he/she/it will be touring
we will be touring
you will be touring
they will be touring
Future perfect
I will have toured
you will have toured
he/she/it will have toured
we will have toured
you will have toured
they will have toured
Future perfect continuous
I will have been touring
you will have been touring
he/she/it will have been touring
we will have been touring
you will have been touring
they will have been touring
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would tour
you would tour
he/she/it would tour
we would tour
you would tour
they would tour
Conditional continuous
I would be touring
you would be touring
he/she/it would be touring
we would be touring
you would be touring
they would be touring
Conditional perfect
I would have tour
you would have tour
he/she/it would have tour
we would have tour
you would have tour
they would have tour
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been touring
you would have been touring
he/she/it would have been touring
we would have been touring
you would have been touring
they would have been touring
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you tour
we let´s tour
you tour
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Present Participle
touring
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The
present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The
past participle shows the action after completion.
10 QUOTES WITH «TOUR»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
tour.
When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.
It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings.
A tour of the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo led by Barbara Kingsolver would be nice. And I certainly wouldn't turn down a tour of Johannes Vermeer's Delft led by Tracey Chevalier.
I'm just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.
All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
I've turned down a lot of roles to make time to record and tour.
In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a drummer, and somebody who plays keyboard and guitar. We try to play all of our parts and flesh it out to get a lush sound, while also keeping the energy of a three-piece punk act. We want to be the best of all possible worlds.
With 'Anna Karenina,' I just think it's a stunning visual tour de force for a director who is at the top of his game.
Doug Ford was one of the first of the old pros I saw during my first full year on tour, in 1963. To this day he's the best chipper I've ever seen. One thing Doug did was get the ball onto the green and rolling right away, keeping it as low as possible. He never hit his chips higher than was absolutely necessary.
I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOUR»
Discover the use of
tour in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
tour and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Cook's
Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal
In this text, Anthony Bourdain sets off to eat his way around the world. But this is no conventional culinary tour.
2
A Wavelet
Tour of Signal Processing: The Sparse Way
Features: * Balances presentation of the mathematics with applications to signal processing * Algorithms and numerical examples are implemented in WaveLab, a MATLAB toolbox * Companion website for instructors and selected solutions and code ...
Describes the music/extreme sports festival Vans Warped Tour, including its history, the famous bands and extreme sports stars that have been featured there, and the future of the festival.
Calculus was humanity's first attempt to represent the world and perhaps its greatest meditation on the theme of continuity. Charts and graphs throughout. From the Hardcover edition.
5
Combinatorics: A Guided
Tour
It is flexible enough to be used for undergraduate courses in combinatorics, second courses in discrete mathematics, introductory graduate courses in applied mathematics programs, as well as for independent study or reading courses.What ...
6
The Evolution of the Grand
Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural ...
The Grand Tour has emerged as a subject of importance for those interested in exploring the historic connections between nations and their intellectual and artistic production.
7
Venice & the Grand
Tour
This book explores Venice's magnetic hold on the imagination of the Grand Tourist and connects the ideology of the Tour to the mythology of Venice.
8
The
Tour de France: A Cultural History
In this highly original history of the world's most famous bicycle race, Christopher S. Thompson, mining previously neglected sources and writing with infectious enthusiasm for his subject, tells the compelling story of the Tour de France ...
Christopher S. Thompson, 2008
9
Complexity: A Guided
Tour
Richly illustrated, Complexity: A Guided Tour--winner of the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science--offers a wide-ranging overview of the ideas underlying complex systems science, the current research at the forefront of this field, and ...
Based on a prodigious amount of research in both published and archival primary sources, Tour of Duty renders alternate attendance as a lived experience, for not only the daimyo but also the samurai retainers who accompanied them.
Constantine Nomikos Vaporis, 2009
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOUR»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
tour is used in the context of the following news items.
Merritt wins Quicken Loans by three shots for first PGA Tour title
He won in his 96th career start on the tour, finishing at 18-under 266. PGA Tour Quicken Loans National leaderboard. Rickie Fowler, who started the day a shot ... «CBSSports.com, Aug 15»
Chris Froome Gives Britain and Africa a Tour de France Win
PARIS — The normally deferential Chris Froome, who won his second Tour de France by completing a drizzly and chilly final stage on Sunday, was emphatic ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
Lance Armstrong makes controversial Tour de France return
Tour chiefs had called him "disrespectful" for agreeing to take part in the charity ride, which tackles the race's 21 stages a day ahead of the competing riders. «CNN, Jul 15»
With mountains looming, handicapping the Tour de France favorites
BORDEAUX, France (VN) — What a first week of the Tour de France. The storylines were endless, full of surprises, disappointment, and hope. Just like any good ... «velonews.competitor.com, Jul 15»
Lake Orion's Gillis denied first PGA Tour win by Spieth
That came at a rotten time, as he'd just won back his PGA Tour card for the 2015 season. He got back on Tour early this year, but after three missed cuts in ... «The Detroit News, Jul 15»
Rodriguez believes classics don't belong in Tour
HUY, Belgium (VN) — One might assume that Joaquím Rodríguez (Katusha) was happy when he saw Mur de Huy featured in this year's Tour de France route. «velonews.competitor.com, Jul 15»
Tour de France 2015: Stage-by-stage guide
A fast, flat individual time trial opens the 102nd edition of the Tour de France although it's less than 14km so the opportunity for general classification contenders ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
European tour operators evacuate thousands from Tunisia after attack
Nerves are high among tourists after a gunman kills at least 39 people at a Tunisian resort, and thousands of foreigners are flocking to Enfidha Airport for a flight ... «Yahoo News, Jun 15»
Fabian Gomez shoots 4 under to earn first Tour victory
Fabian Gomez held his native flag close while celebrating his first career PGA Tour title at the St. Jude Classic. A win to remember is even more special now he ... «ESPN, Jun 15»
Tiger Woods shoots 85 for worst round of PGA Tour career
DUBLIN, Ohio -- The slow, steady progress that Tiger Woods said he has been making with his golf game came to a sudden, ugly halt on Saturday at Muirfield ... «ESPN, Jun 15»
