tor
tor
Definition
tor (tôr)
noun
a high, rocky hill
Etymology: ME < OE torr, a tower, crag < Brit
tor
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- complete: At the finish we felt emotions words fail describe, anyone who has completed 10 Tors will know what I mean.
- do: Jess Route F This year was my first year of doing 10 tors.
- make: I'd like to say thankyou to the people that make the ten tors experience possible.
- climb: You should try climbing a few tors on Dartmoor.
- visit: Teams of six have to complete a 35-mile expedition visiting ten tors on Dartmoor.
Adjective modifier
- rocky: Tamara loved to be out in the sunshine and would often roam the rocky tors and verdant valleys of the moor.
- rugged: We found a short valley between rugged tors which led to an open, grassy space flecked over with the white cotton grass.
- distant: The first pallid hues of daybreak where spreading across the distant tors which signaled the urgency to get off the moor.
- high: The views are stunning on a clear day and we can often see large areas of Devon and Cornwall from the higher tors.
- last: The buzz was amazing, especially as we hit the last tor, my friend and I just about ran up it.
- first: A path along the crest is easily followed across the first tor of broken rock.
Modifies a noun
- formation: Granite tor formation In a half-day exercise at Hay Tor, you will conduct some simple geological analyzes of the Dartmoor granite.
- estimate: I would therefore recommend that the ToR total estimate of 50 days be increased to 112.
- weekend: But there were hundreds of Teams up for it with just five weeks to Ten Tors weekend!
Noun used with modifier
- edi-: Load This command is used to load a new bitmap file into the bitmap edi- tor.
- granite: Teams of six have to complete 35, 45 or 55 mile routes across Dartmoor, visiting ten of the famous Dartmoor granite tors.
- draft: Optional on draft TOR No Is Design Review required?
- hound: Some Dartmoor writers refer to Great Hound tor which distinguishes it from the other Hound tor on the north moor.
- summit: It's the 2,000 feet Binnian ascent finishing among the summit tors.
- descrip-: The fdopen function associates a stream with the existing file descrip- tor, fildes.
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