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   tow

   /təʊ/

   verb

   • 1. (of a motor vehicle or boat) pull (another vehicle or boat) along with a rope, chain, or tow bar: "a pickup van towing a trailer"
   • ▪ (of a person) pull along behind one: "she saw Florian towing Nicky along by the hand"

   noun

   • 1. an act of towing a vehicle or boat: "the cruiser got a tow from a warship after its engine failed"
   • ▪ a rope or line used to tow a vehicle or boat.

   Word Origin Old Englishtogian ‘draw, drag’, of Germanic origin; related to tug. The noun dates from the early 17th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. towable adjective

   Scrabble Points: 6

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   • W

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Riemannian_manifoldRiemannian manifold - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Riemannian_manifold

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   Jul 2, 2024 · The sphere with the round metric is an embedded Riemannian submanifold of +.. Let (,) be a Riemannian manifold and let : be an immersed submanifold or an embedded submanifold of .The pullback of is a Riemannian metric on , and (,) is said to be a Riemannian submanifold of (,).. In the case where , the map : is given by () = and the metric is just the restriction of to vectors tangent along .

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › TigerTiger - Wikipedia

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   Jul 2, 2024 · Tiger. The tiger ( Panthera tigris) is a member of the genus Panthera and the largest living cat species native to Asia. It has a powerful, muscular body with a large head and paws, a long tail and orange fur with black, mostly vertical stripes. It is traditionally classified into nine recent subspecies, though some recognise only two ...