TOW meaning: Pulling a vehicle with another

We found 45 dictionaries that define the word tow:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

tow: Merriam-Webster.com
TOW, tow, tow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
tow, tow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
tow: Collins English Dictionary
tow: Vocabulary.com
Tow, tow: Wordnik
tow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
TOW, Tow, tow: Wiktionary
tow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
tow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
tow: Infoplease Dictionary
Tow, tow: Dictionary.com
tow (n.), tow (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
tow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
TOW, Tow (disambiguation), Tow (fibre), Tow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Tow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
tow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
tow: Rhymezone
tow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
tow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
tow: Free Dictionary
tow: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
tow: Mnemonic Dictionary
Tow, tow: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
tow: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

tow: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)

tow: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Tow (disambiguation), tow: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)

TOW: Acronym Finder
TOW: Three Letter Words with definitions
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
tow: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)

Tow: Easton Bible
TOW: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

tow, tow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
TOW, t.o.w: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)

AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
Tow: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To pull something behind one, such as by using a line, chain, or tongue.
▸ verb:  (running, cycling, motor racing, etc.) To aid someone behind by shielding them from wind resistance.
▸ noun:  The act of towing and the condition of being towed.
▸ noun:  Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
▸ noun:  Something, such as a barge, that is towed.
▸ noun:  A rope or cable used in towing.
▸ noun:  (motor racing) A speed increase given by driving in front of another car on a straight, which causes a slipstream for the car behind.
▸ noun:  An untwisted bundle of fibres such as cellulose acetate, flax, hemp or jute.
▸ noun:  (specifically) The short, coarse, less desirable fibres separated by hackling from the finer longer fibres (line).
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  (military) Initialism of tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided: a kind of antitank missile.

Similar:

towage, haul, track, toll, betow, tolug, train, trice, pull on, trail, more...

Opposite:

push, pull, drag, haul

Types:

flatbed, wheel-lift, rollback, slingshot, integrated, more...

Phrases:

in tow, tow truck, tow rope, under tow, tow line, more...

Adjectives:

kow, long, first, deep, little, under, fine, single, dry, coarse, heavy

Colors:

beige, sand, khaki, tan, camel, buff, ecru, fawn, taupe, almond

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