Ditto vs Too - What's the difference?
ditto | too |
That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.
* Charles Dickens
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(informal) A duplicate or copy of a document, particularly one created by a spirit duplicator
A copy; an imitation.
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A symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), when indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.
To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.
* 1989 , K. K. N. Kurup, Agrarian struggles in Kerala
Used to show agreement with what another person has said.
*Boy: "I'm really busy today!"
*Girl: "Ditto! "
(lb) Likewise.
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, title= (lb) Also; in addition.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too .
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, title= (lb) To an excessive degree; over; more than enough.
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, title= To a high degree, very.
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Used to contradict a negative assertion.
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As adverbs the difference between ditto and too
is that ditto is as said before, likewise while too is likewise.As a noun ditto
is that which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.As a verb ditto
is to repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.As an interjection ditto
is used to show agreement with what another person has said.ditto
English
Noun
(en-noun)- A spacious table in the centre, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners.
- Please run off twenty-four dittos of this assignment, for my students.
Synonyms
* (symbol) ditto mark, (abbreviation)Verb
(en verb)- The Communists believed that Prakasam, the Prime Minister, never tried to check the bureaucracy but dittoed every action of the corrupt officials and police.
Synonyms
* ape * echoInterjection
(head)Derived terms
* suit of dittoes * ditto suittoo
English
Adverb
(-)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too !
How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too . The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.