Toss vs Cling - What's the difference?
toss | cling |
A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
(cricket, football) The toss of a coin before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play.
(British, slang) A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.
To throw with an initial upward direction.
To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
* Addison
To agitate; to make restless.
* Milton
To subject to trials; to harass.
* Herbert
To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
To discard: to toss out
To stir or mix (a salad).
(British, vulgar, slang) To masturbate
(informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.
* 2003 , Joseph Wambaugh, Fire Lover , p. 258:
* 2009 , , Red Dragon :
* 2011 , Linda Howard, Kill and Tell: A Novel :
To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.
(obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over.
To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.
Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit.
* 1908 , , Hostages to Momus :
adherence; attachment; devotion
* Milton
(senseid)To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.
* Mrs. Hemans
To adhere to an object, without being affixed, in such a way as to follow its contours. Used especially of fabrics and films.
To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.
* Jonathan Swift
To cause to dry up or wither.
* Shakespeare
(figurative, with preposition to) to be fond of, to feel strongly about
English irregular verbs
In lang=en terms the difference between toss and cling
is that toss is to be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean while cling is to cause to dry up or wither.As nouns the difference between toss and cling
is that toss is a throw, a lob, of a ball etc, with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care while cling is fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit.As verbs the difference between toss and cling
is that toss is to throw with an initial upward direction while cling is (senseid)to hold very tightly, as to not fall off.toss
English
Noun
(es)- I couldn't give a toss about her.
Derived terms
* argue the tossVerb
- Toss it over here!
- to toss the head
- He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, / He would not stay.
- Calm region once, / And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.
- Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.
- I'll toss you for it.
- ''I don't need it anymore, you can just toss it.
- to toss''' a salad; a '''tossed salad.
- "Someone tossed just his living room and bedroom." / "They probably found what they were looking for."
- John Orr had occasion to complain in writing to the senior supervisor that his Playboy and Penthouse magazines had been stolen by deputies. And he believed that was what prompted a random search of his cell for contraband. He was stripped, handcuffed, and forced to watch as they tossed his cell .
- Rankin and Willingham, when they tossed his cell , they took Polaroids so they could get everything back in place.
- Hayes had watched him toss a room before. He had tapped walls, gotten down on his hands and knees and studied the floor, inspected books and lamps and bric-abrac.
- tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep
- (Shakespeare)
- to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar
- (Ascham)
See also
* tosser * toss off * toss in * toss and turnAnagrams
* * *cling
English
Noun
(en noun)- Antelope steaks and fried liver to begin on, and venison cutlets with chili con carne and pineapple fritters, and then some sardines and mixed pickles; and top it off with a can of yellow clings and a bottle of beer.
- A more tenacious cling to worldly respects.
Verb
- Seaweed clung to the anchor.
- And what hath life for thee / That thou shouldst cling to it thus?
- I clung legs as close to his side as I could.
- If thou speak'st false, / Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, / Till famine cling thee.