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Definition of tour

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Definition of tour  (Entry 2 of 2)

transitive verb

intransitive verb

• peregrinate

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Word History

Middle English, from Anglo-French tur, tourn turning, circuit, journey — more at turn

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2b

1708, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

Phrases Containing tour

• Cook's tour
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• tour de force
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“Tour.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tour. Accessed 11 May. 2024.

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Definition of tour verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

• tour something He toured America with his one-man show.
• She toured the country promoting her book.
• (+ adv./prep.) We spent four weeks touring around Europe.
• He's toured across Europe, the UK and North America.
• She is currently touring with her new band.
• He no longer tours.
• The band toured the UK last year.
• The town makes an ideal base for touring the Highlands.
• I was on my own as I toured round.
• We plan to tour all over the country.
• She has toured extensively in the US.
• The Beatles stopped touring years before.
• extensively
• internationally

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a tour of // on a tour of

• Thread starter ptsunny
• Start date Feb 7, 2012
• Feb 7, 2012

what's the differences between 'a tour of' and 'on a tour of' eg 1.) In an effort to accommodate the visiting lecturer,members of the board took her on a tour of the capital buliding. eg 2.) In an effort to accommodate the visiting lecturer,members of the board took her a tour of the capital buliding. is there any difference between these two sentences? the thing that i thought was that, usually on is used in the sentence like 'take sb on + transpotation.' but... tour does not a sort of transpotation.... in the sentence, what's the meaning for 'on' thanx so much!!!  

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'On a tour' is right. (2) is wrong. 'On' is simply the preposition we use. 'Take' on its own has the idea of making some sort of journey: 'I took my girlfriend a bunch of flowers'. I bought the flowers and then went to my girlfriend's house with them. You could say '...board gave her a tour of...' A: Where are you going for your holidays? B: We're going on a tour of the Rhineland. I suppose 'John took me on the bus' means something like 'We went on the bus together and John paid my fare'. I'm not sure what you mean by 'capital building'. Do you mean the main building? It's 'the meaning of'. 'I' is always capitalised, however egocentric this appears.  

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• The tour offers a chance to visit places of interest .
• Despite the accident , she intends to complete her tour as originally planned .
• The band's American tour coincided with the release of their second album .
• They went on a sightseeing tour of London.
• The tour guide was very informative .

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Theater | review: ‘an educated guess’ at definition theatre is a promising new play about an immigration dilemma.

Not just a first play, but, in fact, a most promising work further developed by this growing theater company and produced with the kind of fast-paced, high-stakes staging for which Definition is gaining a reputation in Hyde Park and beyond. “An Educated Guess” is a sprawling, ambitious work that did not strike me as finished and maybe even more suited to a screenplay than a work of theater. Still, what a compelling night, thanks in no small measure to a knockout lead performance from Claudia Quesada in the role of an immigration agent whose decisions catch up to her.

Alfonso, an immigrant himself, is interested in many things here, beginning with the professional lives of those who conduct immigration interviews, such as Alba Guerrero (Quesada) and her sidekick Nilda Jackson (Maya Vinice Prentiss). The play, which is set around the turn of the 21st century, draws from the historical referent wherein the Sept. 11 hijackers all had been approved for visas at some point by consular officials who, in hindsight, clearly missed some things. As an official government report noted: “Three of the 19 hijackers submitted applications that contained false statements that could have been proven to be false at the time they applied.”

In exploring whether such (perhaps inevitable) errors keep immigration officials awake at night, Alfonso imagines a case where approval had been given to a mass shooter in Harlem and how that decision haunts the interviewer. There is one blistering scene here where the nightmares become so intense that Alba even decides to confront the imprisoned guy, played with Hannibal Lecter-like intensity by Mehmet Can Aksoy, who creeped me out in a big way. Then there’s the flip side to that, as immigration officials become dehumanized and hardened to their jobs and are so worried about making mistakes that they are unkind to decent people like Father Romelio Ospina (Miguel Cohen) who actually ends up helping the official as she goes through her crisis of conscience.

That’s probably plenty for a 90-minute play, but Alfonso also wants to explore the U.S. immigration system in a broader way, interspersing the narrative with short, experiential monologues coming from immigrants of different ages and from different places. I wasn’t always entirely convinced by how everything hangs (or does not hang) together and sometimes the end result is to dissipate the narrative tension of the main story. That’s also the impact of a series of radio news broadcasts that I don’t think the play really needs.

But whatever the structural things still to be sorted out, this is very rich and lovely writing, nuanced and humanistic and looking at this fraught topic in a very fresh way. For its part, Definition has become a place to see intense, Chicago-style acting, up close on 55th Street, and this uniformly excellent cast really throws itself into this project. You’ll be pretty gripped, I think, by a passionate work at the beginning of its journey.

Chris Jones is a Tribune critic.

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Review: “An Educated Guess” (3 stars)

When: Through May 26

Where: Definition Theatre, 1160 E. 55th St.

Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Tickets: $30 at www.definitiontheatre.org

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