Dig vs Touch - What's the difference?
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(label) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up .
(label) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
(label) To investigate, to research, often followed by out'' or ''up .
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
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* Robynson (More's Utopia)
An archeological investigation.
(US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
A thrust; a poke.
(slang) To understand or show interest in.
(slang) To appreciate, or like.
Primarily physical senses.
# (label) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
# (label) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
# (label) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
# (label) To make physical contact with a thing.
# (label) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
#* (Bible), (w) xxvi. 28, 29
# (label) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
# (label) To consume, or otherwise use.
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# (label) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
#* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) :
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#* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society (2012), page 189:
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# To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
# (label) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
# To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
# (label) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
Primarily non-physical senses.
# (label) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
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# (label) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on'' or ''upon something).
#* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
# (label) To concern, to have to do with.
#* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) V:
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, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
#* 1919 , (Saki), ‘The Penance’, The Toys of Peace , Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 423:
# (label) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
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# (label) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
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# (label) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
#* 1928 , , "The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers", in (Lord Peter Views the Body) ,
#* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
# To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(label) To infect; to affect slightly.
To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
To perform, as a tune; to play.
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
A little bit; a small amount.
* Shakespeare
The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
A relationship of close communication or understanding.
The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
* {{quote-news
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Act or power of exciting emotion.
* Shakespeare
An emotion or affection.
* Hooker
Personal reference or application.
* Francis Bacon
A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
* Dryden
A brief essay.
* Jonathan Swift
A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
* Shakespeare
* Fuller
Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
* Carew
* Shakespeare
The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
The children's game of tag.
As nouns the difference between dig and touch
is that dig is ditch, dyke while touch is an act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.As a verb touch is
primarily physical senses.dig
English
(wikipedia dig)Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from (etyl) (m), itself a borrowing of the same Germanic root (from (etyl) (m)). More at ditch, dike.Verb
The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.}}
- You should have seen children dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls.
Derived terms
* dig in * dig into * dig over * dig out * dig upNoun
(en noun)- He guffawed and gave me a dig in the ribs after telling his latest joke.
Synonyms
* (archaeological investigation) excavationEtymology 2
From (African American Vernacular English); due to lack of writing of slave speech, etymology is .Random House Unabridged, 2001 Others do not propose a distinct etymology, instead considering this a semantic shift of the existing English term (compare dig in/dig into'').eg: OED, "dig", from ME vt ''diggenVerb
- You dig ?
- Baby, I dig you.
References
touch
English
Verb
(es)- Let us make a covenant with thee, that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee.
- Now a certain grand merchant ship once touched at Rokovoko, and its commander — from all accounts, a very stately punctilious gentleman, at least for a sea captain — this commander was invited to the wedding feast of Queequeg's sister, a pretty young princess just turned of ten.
- But in fact the English kings of the seventeenth century usually began to touch form the day of their accession, without waiting for any such consecration.
- Strong waters pierce metals, and will touch' upon gold, that will not ' touch upon silver.
- Next to sorrow still I may annex such accidents as procure fear; for besides those terrors which I have before touched ,which much trouble many of us.
- "Well, but since we have touched upon this business, and for the last time I hope," continued the doctor, "there is one point I should like you to understand."
- Men of Israhell take hede to youreselves what ye entende to do as touchinge these men.
- And now it seemed he was engaged in something which touched them closely, but must be hidden from their knowledge.
- There was his mistress, Maria Morano. I don't think I've ever seen anything to touch her, and when you work for the screen [as I do] you're apt to have a pretty exacting standard of female beauty.
Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- On Sunday afternoon it was as dark as night, with barely room for two riders abreast on a gradient that touches 20%.
- I mean to touch your love indeed.
- The lines, though touched but faintly, are drawn right.
- (Francis Bacon)
- [They] touched their golden harps.
- A person in the royal retinue touched a light and lively air on the flageolet.
- No decree of mine,[to] touch with lightest moment of impulse his free will.
Derived terms
* touch a nerve * touch base * touch bottom * touch down * touch off * touch on * touch the hem of someone's garment * touch up * touch woodNoun
(es)- Suddenly, in the crowd, I felt a touch at my shoulder.
- With the lights out, she had to rely on touch to find her desk.
- He performed one of Ravel's piano concertos with a wonderfully light and playful touch .
- Clever touches like this are what make her such a brilliant writer.
- Move it left just a touch and it will be perfect.
- Madam, I have a touch of your condition.
- He got the ball, and kicked it straight out into touch .
- He promised to keep in touch while he was away.
- I used to be a great chess player but I've lost my touch .
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- Not alone / The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches , / Do strongly speak to us.
- a true, natural, and a sensible touch of mercy
- Speech of touch toward others should be sparingly used.
- Never give the least touch with your pencil till you have well examined your design.
- Print my preface in such form as, in the booksellers' phrase, will make a sixpenny touch .
- Now do I play the touch .
- a neat new monument of touch and alabaster
- equity, the true touch of all laws
- friends of noble touch
- a heavy touch''', or a light '''touch
