Tow vs. Toy
Difference Between Tow and Toy
Tow➦
To draw or pull behind by a chain or line
a tugboat towing a barge.
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Toy➦
A toy is an item that is used in play, especially one designed for such use. It is mainly intended for use by children, though may also be marketed to adults under certain circumstances.
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Tow➦
The act or an instance of towing
Can you give my car a tow?.
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Toy➦
An object for a child to play with.
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Tow➦
Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
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Toy➦
Something that provides amusement
"The profit on a toy like a motorcycle or a snowmobile is maybe a tenth that on a solid family car" (John Updike).
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Tow➦
Something, such as a barge or car, that is towed.
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Toy➦
A small ornament; a bauble.
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Tow➦
A rope or cable used in towing.
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Toy➦
Something of little importance; a trifle.
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Tow➦
Coarse broken flax or hemp fiber.
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Toy➦
A diminutive thing, especially a dog of a very small breed or of a variety smaller than the standard variety of its breed.
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Tow➦
A continuous untwisted bundle of manufactured fibers.
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Toy➦
(Scots) A loose covering for the head, formerly worn by women.
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Tow➦
(transitive) To pull something behind one using a line or chain; to haul.
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Toy➦
Chiefly Southern US A shooter marble.
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Tow➦
To aid someone behind by shielding them from wind resistance.
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Toy➦
To amuse oneself idly; trifle
a cat toying with a mouse.
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Tow➦
The act of towing and the condition of being towed.
It isn't the car's battery; I think I need a tow.
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Toy➦
To treat something casually or without seriousness
toyed with the idea of writing a play.
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Tow➦
Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
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Toy➦
Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
A grown man does not play with a child’s toy.
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Tow➦
Something, such as a barge, that is towed.
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Toy➦
A thing of little importance or value; a trifle.
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Tow➦
A rope or cable used in towing.
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Toy➦
A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal.
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Tow➦
(motor racing) A speed increase given by driving in front of another car on a straight, which causes a slipstream for the car behind.
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Toy➦
(obsolete) Love play, amorous dalliance; fondling.
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Tow➦
An untwisted bundle of fibres such as cellulose acetate, flax, hemp or jute.
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Toy➦
(obsolete) A vague fancy, a ridiculous idea or notion; a whim.
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Tow➦
(specifically) The short, coarse, less desirable fibres separated by hackling from the finer longer fibres (line).
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Toy➦
An inferior graffiti artist.
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Tow➦
The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.
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Toy➦
(obsolete) An old story; a silly tale.
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Tow➦
A rope by which anything is towed; a towline, or towrope.
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Toy➦
A headdress of linen or wool that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; called also toy mutch.
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Tow➦
The act of towing, or the state of being towed; - chiefly used in the phrase, to take in tow, that is to tow.
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Toy➦
A sex toy object or device to give sexual pleasure.
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Tow➦
That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.
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Toy➦
A gun.
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Tow➦
To draw or pull through the water, as a vessel of any kind, by means of a rope.
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Toy➦
To play (with) in an idle or desultory way.
to toy with a piece of food on one’s plate
Figo is toying with the English defence.
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Tow➦
the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope;
the truck gave him a tow to the garage
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Toy➦
To ponder or consider.
I have been toying with the idea of starting my own business.
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Tow➦
drag behind;
Horses used to tow barges along the canal
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Toy➦
To stimulate with a sex toy.
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Toy➦
A plaything for children; a bawble.
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Toy➦
A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.
They exchange for knives, glasses, and such toys, great abundance of gold and pearl.
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Toy➦
A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.
To fly about playing their wanton toys.
What if a toy take 'em in the heels now, and they all run away.
Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell.
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Toy➦
Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.
To dally thus with death is no fit toy.
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Toy➦
An old story; a silly tale.
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Toy➦
A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; - called also toy mutch.
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Toy➦
To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.
To toy, to wanton, dally, smile and jest.
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Toy➦
To treat foolishly.
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Toy➦
an artifact designed to be played with
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Toy➦
a nonfunctional replica of something else (frequently used as a modifier);
a toy stove
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Toy➦
copy that reproduces something in greatly reduced size
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Toy➦
any of several breeds of very small dogs kept purely as pets
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Toy➦
behave carelessly or indifferently;
Play about with a young girl's affection
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Toy➦
manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination;
She played nervously with her wedding ring
Don't fiddle with the screws
He played with the idea of running for the Senate
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Toy➦
engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously;
They played games on their opponents
play the stockmarket
play with her feelings
toy with an idea
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