tor

¹

[tawr]

noun

1. a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.

-tor

²

1. a suffix found in loanwords from Latin, forming personal agent nouns from verbs and, less commonly, from nouns.

   dictator; genitor; janitor; orator; victor.

tor

/ tɔː /

noun

1. a high hill, esp a bare rocky one

2. a prominent rock or heap of rocks, esp on a hill

Word History and Origins

Origin of tor¹

before 900; Middle English; Old English torr < Celtic; compare Irish tor rocky height, Welsh twr heap, pile

Origin of tor²

< Latin -tor (stem -tōr- ), cognate with Greek -tōr (stem -tor- ), Sanskrit -tar-

Word History and Origins

Origin of tor¹

Old English torr, probably of Celtic origin; compare Scottish Gaelic torr pile, Welsh twr

Example Sentences

HTTPS, proxy servers and Tor are sometimes mentioned as VPN alternatives.

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Your traffic is then bounced over several other random Tor nodes in various countries until the last one in the chain decrypts and sends that traffic to its final destination.

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Your traffic is encrypted at each hop, so no single Tor node can tie together the request’s source, content and destination.

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So, just like a VPN, Tor encrypts the traffic between your device and the Tor network and, in that process, your IP is changed to that of the Tor node.

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Your ISP is cut out of the loop, but it will still know you’re using Tor.

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Related Words

• alp 
• bluff 
• butte 
• cliff 
• crag 
• elevation 
• eminence 
• height 
• mesa 
• mount 
• palisade 
• peak 
• pike 
• precipice 
• range 
• ridge 
• sierra 
• volcano