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# towel

noun (a towel, towels); verb (towel, towels, towelled/toweled, towelling/toweling)

«towel» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A towel is a piece of thick soft cloth or paper used to dry your body, hands or dishes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/towel/#m1)
2. To towel (off) is to dry yourself with a towel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/towel/#m2)

### In the lessons

In hygiene, use your own towel, dry hands well after washing (germs spread more on wet hands), and wash towels often. At the beach and pool, bring a towel; in the kitchen, «tea towel» (UK) or «dish towel» (US) dries dishes; «paper towels» wipe spills. Phrases: «throw in the towel» (give up), «beach towel», «bath towel», «hand towel».

### Examples

- Dry your hands on the towel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/towel/#x1)
- Don't forget your towel for swimming. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/towel/#x2)
- Hang your wet towel up to dry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/towel/#x3)
- Use a paper towel to wipe the spill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/towel/#x4)
- Grandma dried the plates with a tea towel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/towel/#x5)
- Lie on your beach towel in the shade. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/towel/#x6)
- Don't share towels when you have a cold. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/towel/#x7)
- The tired boxer threw in the towel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/towel/#x8)

### Note

Countable. Said «TOW-ul» (rhymes with «vowel»). British: towelled; American: toweled. «Throw in the towel» is an idiom from boxing.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «towel» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/towel/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«towel» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/towel.html) on Mova free.