Leash vs Tether - What's the difference?
leash | tether | Synonyms |
A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
* Shakespeare
A brace and a half; a tierce.
A set of three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.
* 1597 , , by Shakespeare
* 1663 ,
* Ben Jonson
* Tennyson
A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
(surfing) A leg rope.
To fasten or secure with a leash.
(figuratively) to curb, restrain
* 1919 , :
a rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement
(by extension) the limit of one's abilities, resources etc.
(dialect) The cardinal number three in an old counting system used in Teesdale and Swaledale. (Variant of tethera)
to restrict something with a tether
(Internet) to connect a personal computer and a smartphone in order to get wireless Internet access for the computer
Tether is a synonym of leash.
As nouns the difference between leash and tether
is that leash is a strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog while tether is a rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement.As verbs the difference between leash and tether
is that leash is to fasten or secure with a leash while tether is to restrict something with a tether.leash
English
Noun
(es)- like a fawning greyhound in the leash
- Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis.
- It had an odd promiscuous tone, / As if h' had talk'd three parts in one; / Which made some think, when he did gabble, / Th' had heard three labourers of Babel; / Or Cerberus himself pronounce / A leash of languages at once.
- [I] kept my chamber a leash of days.
- Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings.
- 1980: Probably the idea was around before that, but the first photo of the leash in action was published that year'' — ''As Years Roll By (1970's Retrospective) , Drew Kampion, magazine, February 1980, page 43. Quoted at surfresearch.com.au glossary[http://www.surfresearch.com.au/agl.html].
Synonyms
* (strap or cord used to restrain a dog)Verb
(es)- Man is brow-beaten, leashed , muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.