Word Finder - tout

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Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.

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Be careful of the ticket touts outside the arena, they are famed for selling counterfeits.

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A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.

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A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.

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An informer in the Irish Republican Army.

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To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.

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Mary has been touted as a potential succesor to the current COE.

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To look upon or watch.

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To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).

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To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.

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To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.

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To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.

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To look for, try to obtain; used with for.

They tout the fact that no refined sugars, unnecessary salt, or harsh spices are found in their foods.

Instead, they tout their minerals as crushed, yet still fine enough to retain a silky feel.

I'm talking about the kind of product that I'm aware of; that I've heard other people regularly tout; or that I've glanced at but never thought twice about.

Even athletes tout the benefits of the device.

Most products that tout being natural ingredient liquid foundations for oily skin are healthier for the skin.

Some scholarship websites tout themselves as a "scholarship finding" service, but they will only find those scholarships for a fee.

Some tout his example as a reason for the rise in popularity of vegetarian diets while others blame his vegetarian habits for his heart troubles.

The next time you want to tout a stunt as "death defying," bring your A-Game and make us all, once again, believe in magic.

Their popularity has increased as high-profile athletes tout the excellence of the products.

Kombucha purveyors tout its B-vitamin content and the glucuronic acid that is said to boost the detoxification process.

Skin rejuvenating creams may tout the advantages of including collagen in their topical product, but collagen isn't absorbed by the skin, so slathering it on your face is an expensive waste of time.

While many shaping products tout themselves as seamless, it's not always a sure thing.

Feist - This video deviated from the standard format in order to tout the iPod nano's video capabilities.

While many programs tout their own superiority, the truth is that each individual child is different and will learn phonics differently.

Several accessories are available on the Ashley Paige website including T-shirts that tout love and peace and Magical Mood Bracelets.

Customers rave about the towels and tout them as an excellent, practical gift for newborns and older children.

Further, whatever a clothing manufacturer may tout, most of a particular fabric's sun protection has to do with weave.

The Garden of Life Probiotic Formula is one of many products available on the market which tout the health benefits of probiotics.

Energy workers tout these unique crystals as having special healing properties due to the naturally-formed, double terminated points.

Paying yourself first is a concept several well-known financial advisors tout.

Even though they tout details that make them highly functional, that doesn't mean they aren't fashionable as well.

Practitioners of the somewhat controversial area of yoga known as Dahn Yoga tout one of the benefits of Dahn Yoga as improved sleep, as well as reduced stress.

Some diets tout free trials or free preliminary offers or something similar.

Today, doctors, nutritionists and scientists also tout the many benefits this super food adds to a person's diet, including the fact that it is packed with free-radical fighting antioxidants.

Things change for many reasons so don't tout it as the gospel truth, but that log can at least provide some pretty accurate pointers as to what general direction you should be working toward.

Although dental discount companies often tout their plans as being superior to insurance plans, it is important to realize that with a discount plan there will always be an out-of-pocket expense.

While people tout the comfort and price, a few other drawbacks are noted.

Many groups that tout morals first and foremost, such as churches, private schools, and strictly professional places of business will more than likely be against the low rise thong, or any form of revealing underwear at all for that matter.

Sizes are from Small to XXL and customers tout them as comfortable and well-made.

They tout their Simple Daily Ritual (cleanse, hydrate, protect and moisturize) and the foundation for healthy skin.

Be wary of companies that tout their products as "natural," yet aren't actually all-natural at all.

This section features a series of interviews and commercials with everyone from teenagers to celebrities who tout the products' benefits.

Spink is a remarkably strong man, whose tout ensemble is highly characteristic of a North-country fisherman.

The very careful vineyards will make good wine as they usually do mais par tout le monde.

He stole from shops and from other boys, absconded at nights to visit a night club and to tout for night club clients.

For variety try baby carrots and sugar snap peas or mange tout.

First to tout their wares tonight are Dublin based quintet Bell X1, a band who have had little or no favorable press.

The vegetables were crisp and included broccoli, mange tout, green and red peppers.

To him has also been ascribed the work, La generate et fidele Relation de tout ce qui s'est passe en l'isle de Re, envoyee par le roi a la royne sa mere (Paris, 1627).

Thus an organized individual (tout organise) " is a composite body consisting of the original, or elementary, parts and of the matters which have been associated with them by the aid of nutrition "; so that, if these matters could be extracted from the individual (tout), it would, so to speak, become concentrated in a point, and would thus be restored to its primitive condition of a germ; " just as, by extracting from a bone the calcareous substance which is the source of its hardness, it is reduced to its primitive state of gristle or membrane."2 " Evolution " and " development " are, for Bonnet, synonymous terms; and since by " evolution " he means simply the expansion of that which was invisible into visibility, he was naturally led to the conclusion, at which Leibnitz had arrived by a different line of reasoning, that no such thing as generation, in the proper sense of the word exists in nature.

Tout vient a point a celui qui sait attendre. * And there were as many advisers there as here..." he went on, returning to the subject of "advisers" which evidently occupied him.

Add the sherry, and finish with the mange tout peas, beansprouts, and roasted sesame seeds.

Second, the cuius regio ideology of state supremacy is to be rejected tout court.

Beware of homemade batteries some sellers are trying to tout as official batteries.

Many companies that tout "mineral" makeup actually manufacture products with toxins in them.

Meat purveyors like to tout the fact that humans are omnivores and evolved to eat meat.

Driving the motorcycle isn't anything to tout.

He published first a collection of Dissertations sur l'histoire civile et ecclesiastique de Paris (3 vols., 1739-1743), then an Histoire de la ville et de tout le diocese de Paris (15 vols., 1745-1760), which is a mine of information, mostly taken from the original sources.

Although relegated to a note (vii.), and propounded "Avec la defiance que doit inspirer tout ce qui n'est point un resultat de l'observation ou du calcul," it is plain, from the complacency with which he recurred to it 3 at a later date, that he regarded the speculation with considerable interest.

This was the conception expressed by Bossuet, "Tout l'etat est en la personne du prince," or in Louis XIV.'s saying, "L'etat c'est moi."