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Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs.
Peter Hammill

Meaning of "tout" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TOUT

(To peer, look out): related to Old English tӯtan to peep out.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TOUT

tout  [taʊt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TOUT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tout is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb tout in English.

WHAT DOES TOUT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tout

In British English, a tout is any person who solicits business or employment in a persistent and annoying manner. According to the American Bar Association, touting occurs when a person advertises, promotes, or otherwise describes a security for sale without disclosing that the person is being paid to do so. An example would be a person who frequents heavily touristed areas and presents himself as a tour guide but operates on behalf of local bars, restaurant, or hotels, being paid to direct tourists towards certain establishments.

Definition of tout in the English dictionary

The first definition of tout in the dictionary is to solicit or hawk, esp in a brazen way. Other definition of tout is to spy on racehorses being trained in order to obtain information for betting purposes. Tout is also to sell, or attempt to sell, such information or to take bets, esp in public places.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO TOUT

PRESENT

Present
I tout
you tout
he/she/it touts
we tout
you tout
they tout
Present continuous
I am touting
you are touting
he/she/it is touting
we are touting
you are touting
they are touting
Present perfect
I have touted
you have touted
he/she/it has touted
we have touted
you have touted
they have touted
Present perfect continuous
I have been touting
you have been touting
he/she/it has been touting
we have been touting
you have been touting
they have been touting
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 touted
you touted
he/she/it touted
we touted
you touted
they touted
Past continuous
I was touting
you were touting
he/she/it was touting
we were touting
you were touting
they were touting
Past perfect
I had touted
you had touted
he/she/it had touted
we had touted
you had touted
they had touted
Past perfect continuous
I had been touting
you had been touting
he/she/it had been touting
we had been touting
you had been touting
they had been touting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will tout
you will tout
he/she/it will tout
we will tout
you will tout
they will tout
Future continuous
I will be touting
you will be touting
he/she/it will be touting
we will be touting
you will be touting
they will be touting
Future perfect
I will have touted
you will have touted
he/she/it will have touted
we will have touted
you will have touted
they will have touted
Future perfect continuous
I will have been touting
you will have been touting
he/she/it will have been touting
we will have been touting
you will have been touting
they will have been touting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would tout
you would tout
he/she/it would tout
we would tout
you would tout
they would tout
Conditional continuous
I would be touting
you would be touting
he/she/it would be touting
we would be touting
you would be touting
they would be touting
Conditional perfect
I would have tout
you would have tout
he/she/it would have tout
we would have tout
you would have tout
they would have tout
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been touting
you would have been touting
he/she/it would have been touting
we would have been touting
you would have been touting
they would have been touting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you tout
we let´s tout
you tout
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to tout
Past participle
touted
Present Participle
touting
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.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TOUT


about
əˈbaʊt
blackout
ˈblækaʊt
bout
baʊt
carry-out
ˈkærɪaʊt
checkout
ˈtʃɛkaʊt
cut-out
ˈkʌtˌaʊt
doubt
daʊt
fallout
ˈfɔːlˌaʊt
layout
ˈleɪaʊt
logout
ˈlɒɡˌaʊt
opt-out
ˈɒptˌaʊt
out
aʊt
scout
skaʊt
set-out
ˈsɛtˌaʊt
shout
ʃaʊt
throughout
θruːˈaʊt
trout
traʊt
without
wɪˈðaʊt
workout
ˈwɜːkaʊt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TOUT

tournure
touronaut
Tours
tours de force
tous-les-mois
touse
touser
tousle
tousled
Toussaint L´Ouverture
toustie
tousy
tout court
tout de suite
tout ensemble
tout le monde
Toutatis
touter
toutie
touzle

WORDS THAT END LIKE TOUT

carry out
check out
come out
eat out
figure out
fill out
find out
get out
just about
log out
long drawn out
nothing to write home about
on the way out
out and about
out-and-out
sign out
surtout
talk about
turned out
washed out

Synonyms and antonyms of tout in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TOUT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «tout» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of tout

Translation of «tout» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TOUT

Find out the translation of tout to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tout from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tout» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

兜售
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

promocionar
570 millions of speakers

English

tout
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

टाउट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المرابح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

рекламируют
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

elogiar em demasia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দালাল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

faire de la publicité pour
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tout
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Reklame machen für
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

うまく売り付ける
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

선전하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tout
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

rình
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

துரோகி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ताठ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çığırtkan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fare pubblicità a
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tout
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

рекламують
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tout
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

tout
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tout
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tout
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tout
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tout

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TOUT»

The term «tout» is very widely used and occupies the 1.911 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TOUT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tout» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tout» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tout

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3 QUOTES WITH «TOUT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tout.
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John Churton Collins
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
2
Peter Hammill
Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs.
3
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOUT»

Discover the use of tout in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tout and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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No More ; C'est Tout
Including text discovered after the French edition had been published and accompanied by the original French, the first English translation of the writer's memoirs of her last year explores the topics of love, sex, and death.
Marguerite Duras, 1998
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Mange Tout
His is a truly French sensibility, responding elegantly to the exciting culinary buzz of London and Australia. This book is a testimonial to all his skills and talent.'
Bruno Loubet, 2013
3
Tout Sweet
Set on the Ile de Ré and the Poitou-Charentes, TOUT SWEET is a feel-good tale of a former newspaper fashion editor who hangs up her high heels to renovate a village house in France.
Karen Wheeler, 2011
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Foundation Numeracy in Context
Describes an approach to teaching mathematics, based on applied and contextual learning principles. Its for teachers working with students who have become disengaged from learning mathematics during secondary schooling.
David Tout, Gary Motteram, 2006
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The Collected Papers of Thomas Frederick Tout
Vol. 1. contains miscellaneous papers chiefly on the study of history and the University of Manchester; vol. 2 contains historical articles.
Thomas Frederick Tout, 1932
6
Edward the First
1901. Tout chronicles the turbulent, fascinating period of English history under the reign of Edward I (otherwise known as Edward Longshanks).
T. F. Tout, 2005
7
L' Homoepathie Mise a la Portée de Tout Le Monde
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
T. Oriard, 2009
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Modern French Grammar: A Practical Guide
adverbs. This section includes a large group of words and phrases which function as adjectives, or pronouns, or both. Some also function as adverbs. For negative adjectives and pronouns see 47.7, 47.13. Tout (a) adjective: tout, tous ( ms/pl); ...
Margaret Lang, Isabelle Perez, 2004
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Learn French In A Hurry: Grasp the Basics of Francais Tout ...
With Learn French in a Hurry, you'll master le francais right away!
Laura Lawless, 2007
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Catalogue D'Une Nombreuse Collection De Livres, En Tout ...
Dont la Vente Publique Se Fera, Au Plus Offrant, À la Haye, Par N. Van Daalen & B. Gibert, Le Lundi 24. Juin 1765., & Jours Suivants. Contenant par Alphabet tous les Ouvrages en grand papier, Le Atlas, les Manuscripts, les Livres en ...
Jean Néaulme, Nicolaas van Daalen en Melis Wetters, Benjamin Gibert, 1765

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOUT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tout is used in the context of the following news items.
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PawSox owners begin summer state tour to tout stadium plan
The owners of the Pawtucket Red Sox are kicking off a summer tour of Rhode Island's 39 cities and towns Tuesday to tout their proposal for a new ballpark in the ... «WPRI 12 Eyewitness News, Jul 15»
2
GOP lawmakers tout Pennsylvania municipal pension reform plan
HARRISBURG — Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania are touting a plan to reduce the rising cost of municipal pensions that they say are forcing cutbacks in ... «York Dispatch, Jun 15»
3
France: Pipe strikes gold with Un Temps Pour Tout
DAVID PIPE successfully plundered another big pot in France as Un Temps Pour Tout made all under James Reveley in the French Champion Hurdle. «Racing Post, Jun 15»
4
Renaissance Keyboardist John Tout Dies
John Tout, the keyboardist whose playing added a crucial component to Renaissance's sound during the band's most creatively fertile and commercially ... «Ultimate Classic Rock, May 15»
5
Shaheen to tout newly signed energy bill
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is heading back to New Hampshire to tout her energy efficiency legislation just signed by President Barack ... «Seacoastonline.com, May 15»
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New Mexico officials tout increase in graduation rates
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – New figures from the U.S. Education Department show New Mexico is among the states to see the most growth in high school ... «KRQE News 13, Mar 15»
7
Army instructors tout military mechanic jobs
FREEPORT, Ill. — The U.S. Army is looking for a few good mechanics and sent instructors to Freeport High School Tuesday to tout the benefits of a military ... «ArmyTimes.com, Mar 15»
8
Ticket tout caught with 37 Manchester United season tickets banned …
A ticket tout who was caught with dozens of Manchester United season tickets has been banned from all UK football matches for five years. Adam Connolly, 27 ... «Manchester Evening News, Feb 15»
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Un Temps Pour Tout can step up to the mark
WITH reigning champion More Of That being under a cloud, the World Hurdle in March is crying out for a new talent and UN TEMPS POUR TOUT can step up to ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jan 15»
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Sports betting expert charged in $25 million fraud
Federal prosecutors say Adam Meyer's "sports tout" service led to his squeezing of $25 million from a Wisconsin man between 2009 and 2013. By Rafael ... «Sun Sentinel, Dec 14»

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