TOE

Meaning of TOE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

big toe

follow/toe the party line (= to support the official opinion )

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He refused to toe the party line.

stand on tiptoe/stand on your toes (= support yourself on your toes )

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If he stood on tiptoe, he could reach the shelf.

toe nail ( also toenail )

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His toenails were long and dirty.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

bare

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Spilt drink stuck to my bare toes , and when I tried to wipe it off, it changed into blood.

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He looks under the table and sees a bare toe rubbing the toe of his sneaker.

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He lay perfectly still, brows arched in surprise, bare toes quivering as the blood drained out of him.

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The sight of her bare toes made him feel slightly religious.

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She had lost one of her shoes; broken glass had cut her bare toes .

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He finished off his unhurried inventory by taking in her bare and dainty toes .

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She watched her bare toe rub against the whitened concrete of the balcony.

big

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If you want to survive, you shivering ninny, you might as well shoot off your big toe .

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One of her big toes had an old sticker of scab on it behind the nail.

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Does the state of affairs include the existence of the tutor's big toe or not?

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She's misjudged the weight of the chromium door and crushed her big toe .

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Leave about half an inch between your big toe and the end of the shoe.

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He was wearing green socks, with the big toes sticking out.

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I lost the tips of three toes on my left foot and the whole pad of my big toe.

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On my right foot the pad of my big toe and the tips of all my other toes were four thickness burns.

little

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Sticking with an employee who breaks his little toe is one thing; keeping timeservers who endanger profitability is another.

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Some people could cut their little toe and give up and bleed to death.

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He has already sacrificed part of his little toe on the right foot on a previous expedition.

■ VERB

break

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Sticking with an employee who breaks his little toe is one thing; keeping timeservers who endanger profitability is another.

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Alvin, who had broken a toe , was left behind.

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How about this old broken toe ?

curl

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Still lying down, bend the knees and raise the legs. 9. Curl your toes back.

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Even curl my toes around it.

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Kathleen Parkinson, Bicester, Oxon Does anybody actually curl their toes in embarrassment?

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Heather repeated her demand in Swahili. jacko faced his curling toes .

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Start as before, first bending the knees, then straightening the legs. 13. Curl your toes back.

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Lying flat on your back, bend the knees, then raise the legs. 14. Curl your toes back.

dip

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But here at Prima we're very happy to he dipping a toe in the internet waters in a very good cause.

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But dipping a toe into the contracting pond can be problematic.

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Best with which to dip your toes ?

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Tentatively, some dipped their toes to test the water.

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But companies are beginning to dip their toes into these turbid waters.

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So it's an excellent time to dip a toe into the ocean of investment opportunities.

keep

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Meetings are held every nineteen days, not necessarily Sundays, which must keep people on their toes .

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Inflation, which depletes the value of stocks and bonds, also keeps investors on their toes .

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But it will be the pre-Christmas period that will keep McBride on his toes .

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He just wanted to keep you on your toes .

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And, keeping them on their toes ... the doctors who walk eighteen miles a day.

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You have to have good people doing these jobs, and you have to keep folks on their toes .

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We need our ordinary grumbling members to keep us on our toes .

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He keeps them on their toes .

point

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Raise and straighten your left leg, pointing the toes up and down.

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She wore brown leather shoes with pointed toes and high heels.

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Léonie pointed her toe and wrote an imaginary signature in the dust.

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What do they do besides wave their arms and point their toes ?

stand

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My opponent was much the same height, build and temperament; we stood toe to toe and swapped blow for blow.

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Then she stood up on her toes , kissed the corner of my mouth, and disappeared into the building.

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Hardin fidgeted and stood on his toes to better his view.

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She stood up on her toes to get a better look at the silent, snow-sunk meadow.

step

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But that will make AT&T's service and equipment-manufacturing businesses step on each other's toes again.

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I had stepped on his toes .

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This will involve stepping on the toes of the takeaway market.

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It is said the reason why Taurus ran into trouble was a reluctance to step on anyone's toes .

touch

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Bend from the waist, with your arms still straight, and touch your toes .

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Can you touch your toes while keeping your legs straight?

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Slowly lean over with both arms to try to touch the toe of your outstretched foot.

tread

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I danced rigidly with Giacomo, kicking his shins and treading on his toes .

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She has a sharp cutting edge and woe betide the Europhile who treads on her toes .

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Danny's filthy fingernails were digging into his neck and his one foot was treading on Henry's toes .

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But I don't want us to tread on each other's toes .

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Don't know the rules, don't want to tread on any toes .

wiggle

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She wiggled her toes and gave a sigh of relief.

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He stuck out one foot and wiggled the toes .

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As she woke up she was encouraged to move around in bed and wiggle her toes .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

from top to toe

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But John and Veronica Saunders still make time to decorate their home from top to toe.

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When the body was naked, it was X-rayed from top to toe.

point your toes

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What do they do besides wave their arms and point their toes?

step on sb's toes

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I'm new here, so I don't want to step on anyone's toes.

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I told Tony I didn't want to step on his toes.

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But that will make AT&T's service and equipment-manufacturing businesses step on each other's toes again.

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I had stepped on his toes.

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It is said the reason why Taurus ran into trouble was a reluctance to step on anyone's toes.

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This will involve stepping on the toes of the takeaway market.

stub your toe

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As a prominent figure in Rottweiler rescue, she's stubbed her toe on more unfair bullying and downright idiocy than most.

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Distracted, Luce stubbed her toe against a piece of raised planking and tripped.

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It is one thing to say it when you stub your toe.

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Jackie seemed to float upwards and Sam stubbed his toe.

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Never mind that the offense continued to stub its toe on all but one trip inside Minnesota territory on the afternoon.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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He looks under the table and sees a bare toe rubbing the toe of his sneaker.

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In each directorate-general there is a leader, who keeps his team on their toes...

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Invariably our toes are unnaturally cramped into odd-shaped shoes and the feet raised because we choose to teeter around in high heels!

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Like on horseback, I hold on with the tips of my toes.

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Ruth's toes curled under the table.

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She has a sharp cutting edge and woe betide the Europhile who treads on her toes.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

line

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Journalists who refuse to toe the line will have to be sacked.

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There, all people toed the same starting line .

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They were no longer the oppressed, wretched teen menials who must take orders, toe the line .

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You are put in a slot and expected to toe the line .

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The party stalwarts toe the presidential line and shout down those who disagree.

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He could be expected, then, to toe the line when it came to military versus civilian decisions.

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And yet de Gaulle himself was remarkably confident that the army would toe the line .