tobe or tob, thaub [ tohb ] SHOW IPA
/ toʊb / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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the principal outer garment in some parts of north and central Africa, consisting of a length of cloth that is sewn into a long loose skirt or is draped around the body and fastened over one shoulder.
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Origin of tobe 1825–35; <dialectal Arabic tōb, variant of Arabic thawb garment
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to-be
[ tuh -bee ] SHOW IPA
/ təˈbi / PHONETIC RESPELLING
adjective
future; soon to be the thing specified (usually used in combination): bride-to-be.
Origin of to-be First recorded in 1590–1600
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How to use tobe in a sentence What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.
That means the F-35 will be almost entirely reliant on long-range air-to-air missiles.
It will still carry a pair of Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM long-range air-to-air missiles and a pair of bombs.
The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.
Well, the numbers tell us so, as do all of our day-to-day interactions, just as the president said.
Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
Something remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.
To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.
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British Dictionary definitions for tobe
adjective
(in combination) about to be; future a mother-to-be ; the bride-to-be
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