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Hitch vs Tug - What's the difference?

hitch | tug | Synonyms |

Hitch is a synonym of tug.


As a proper noun hitch

is .

As a verb tug is

to pull or drag with great effort.

As a noun tug is

a sudden powerful pull.

hitch

English

Noun

(es)
  • A sudden pull.
  • Any of various knots]] used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope Knots and Splices by Cyrus L Day, Adlard Coles Nautical, 2001. See [[w:List of hitch knots, List of hitch knots in Wikipedia .
  • A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
    • His truck sported a heavy-duty hitch for his boat.
  • (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
    • The banquet went off without a hitch . (Meaning the banquet went smoothly.)
  • A hidden or unfavorable condition or element; a catch.
    • The deal sounds too good to be true. What's the hitch ?
  • A period of time. Most often refers to time spent in the military.
    • She served two hitches in Vietnam.
    U.S. TROOPS FACE LONGER ARMY HITCH ; SOLDIERS BOUND FOR IRAQ, ... WILL BE RETAINED
  • :: Stephen J. Hedges & Mike Dorning, Chicago Tribune; Orlando Sentinel; Jun 3, 2004; pg. A.1;

    • Synonyms

    * catch

    Derived terms

    * unhitch * unhitched

    Verb

  • To pull with a jerk.
  • To attach, tie or fasten.
  • *, chapter=8
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Philander went into the next room, which was just a lean-to hitched on to the end of the shanty, and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.}}
  • (informal) To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched .
  • (informal) contraction of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
  • To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
  • * South
    • atomswhich at length hitched together
  • To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
    • Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme.
  • * Fuller
    • To ease themselves by hitching into another place.
  • (UK) To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
    • (Halliwell)

    References

    tug

    English

    Verb

    (tugg)
  • to pull or drag with great effort
    • The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.
  • to pull hard repeatedly
    • He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.
  • to tow by tugboat

    • Derived terms

    * tug down * tug up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a sudden powerful pull
  • * Dryden
    • At the tug he falls, / Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 24 , author=David Ornstein , title=Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=But Van Persie slotted home 40 seconds after the break before David Wheater saw red for a tug on Theo Walcott.}}
  • (nautical) a tugboat
  • (obsolete) A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
    • (Halliwell)
  • A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
  • (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
  • (slang) An act of masturbation
    • He had a quick tug to calm himself down before his date.

    Derived terms

    * tug of war

    Anagrams

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