Tug vs Grab - What's the difference?
tug | grab | Related terms |
to pull or drag with great effort
to pull hard repeatedly
to tow by tugboat
a sudden powerful pull
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(nautical) a tugboat
(obsolete) A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
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
To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
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, title= To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
To restrain someone; to arrest.
To grip the attention; to enthrall.
(informal) To quickly collect or retrieve.
* 1987 James Grady Just a Shot Away , Bantam, p117
* 1999 Jillian Dagg, Racing Hearts, Thomas Bouregy & Co., p105
* 2009 Mike Taylor, A Thousand Sleeps, Tate Publishing, p216
(informal) To consume something quickly.
To take the opportunity of.
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, title= a sudden snatch (for something)
* 1931 Harold M. Sherman, "The Baseball Clown," Boys' Life, Vol. 21, No. 4 (April 1931), Boy Scouts of America, p47
* 2003 J Davey, Six Years of Darkness, Trafford Publishing, p66
a mechanical device that grabs or clutches
# a device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven
(media) a soundbite
Tug is a related term of grab.
As nouns the difference between tug and grab
is that tug is a sudden powerful pull while grab is grave.As a verb tug
is to pull or drag with great effort.tug
English
Verb
(tugg)- The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.
- He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.
Derived terms
* tug down * tug upNoun
(en noun)- At the tug he falls, / Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
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- He had a quick tug to calm himself down before his date.
Derived terms
* tug of warAnagrams
* ----grab
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(grabb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}
- "I'll just grab my jacket," said Manh-Hung.
- Hardly believing that Rafe actually planned to relax for a while, Kate nodded. "All right. Fine. I'll just go grab my purse."
- He looked at Albert and Ben, and then back to Nurse Allen. "I'll just grab my gear and be right back."
Blackpool 1-2 West Ham, passage=Both teams wasted good opportunities to score but it was the London side who did grab what proved to be the decisive third when the unmarked Vaz Te, a January signing from Barnsley, drilled the ball into the net from 12 yards.}}
Noun
(en noun)- The ball popped in and popped out, and when he made a grab for it on the ground he kicked it with his foot.
- He made a grab for me and I swung my handbag at him as hard as I could.