Meaning of Tori | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A diminutive of the female given name Victoria.
2. A region of Georgia, in the central part of the country, bordered by Imereti and Kartli in the north and Meskheti and Trialeti in the south.
3. One who executes a technique against the training partner, or uke.
4. A protective, epidermal thickening derived from the stratum corneum and found in high friction areas (such as the foot sole of a dog).
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Examples

“While there is a hereditary component to tori, this does not explain all cases. Tori tend to appear more frequently during middle age of life; the torus palatinus is more commonly observed in females, but this is not the case with the torus mandibularis.”

“The American singer Tori Amos was born in 1963.”

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