Fundamentally you can use them to dry, dab and wipe whatever is in question but whilst they all come under the same category of cloth, they may be totally different.
As an example you wouldn’t dry your kitchen area cutlery with a beach towel, nor do you lay down on cotton tea towels around the beach front.
A bathroom towel is used for drying your body after taking a bath or swimming. It’s generally large (the size of your body) and rectangular, using a common size close to 30″?60″. It is sometimes also called a bath sheet.
A beach towel is comparable in that it is a large rectangular towel however this one is often a bit bigger. Although it is usually useful for drying off after finding yourself in water, its chief purpose is to provide a surface to lie on, for instance on a sunbed, lounger or at the beach.
Also, they are worn for personal privacy while changing clothes in a public area for instance in a swimming changing room. They frequently are available in a number of colours, themes and styles.
A different form of towel is the foot towel. It is around the same measurements of linen tea towels but can be used in the absence of a rug or bathroom mat, to be positioned on the ground after showering in order to not drench the flooring.
A hand towel is of similar scope but is used to dry your hands after washing.
The term kitchen towel, also known as tea towels, is needed in the kitchen for drying plates, cups and cutlery. They derive from the 18th century, whenever a tea towel became a special linen drying cloth as used by the mistress of the home to dry her valuable and expensive china tea things.