different between dig vs weed

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English diggen (“to dig”), alteration of Old English d?cian (“to dig a ditch, to mound up earth”) (compare Old English d?cere (“digger”)) from d?c, d?? (“dike, ditch”) from Proto-Germanic *d?kaz, *d?kij? (“pool, puddle”), from Proto-Indo-European *d??g?-, *d?eyg?- (“to stab, dig”). Additionally, Middle English diggen may derive from an unrecorded suffixed variant, *d?cgian. Akin to Danish dige (“to dig, raise a dike”), Swedish dika (“to dig ditches”). Related to Middle French diguer (“to dig”), from Old French dikier, itself a borrowing of the same Germanic root (from Middle Dutch dijc). More at ditch, dike.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

dig (third-person singular simple present digs, present participle digging, simple past and past participle dug)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
2. (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.

3. (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
4. (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
   • 1894, Paul Leicester Ford, The Honorable Peter Stirling

     Peter dug at his books all the harder.

5. (figuratively) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
6. To thrust; to poke.
   • 1551, Ralph Robinson (sometimes spelt Raphe Robynson) (translator), Utopia (originally written by Sir Thomas More)

     You should have seen children […] dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls.

7. (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

dig (plural digs)

1. An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.

   Synonym: excavation

2. (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
3. A thrust; a poke.

   Synonym: jab
4. (Britain, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
5. (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
6. (cricket) An innings.
7. A cutting, sarcastic remark.

   Synonym: jibe
8. (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.

Translations

See also

• cratedigger
• digs

Etymology 2

From African American Vernacular English; due to lack of writing of slave speech, etymology is difficult to trace, but it has been suggested that it is from Wolof dëgg, dëgga (“to understand, to appreciate”). It has also been suggested that it is from Irish dtuig. Others do not propose a distinct etymology, instead considering this a semantic shift of the existing English term (compare dig in/dig into).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

dig (third-person singular simple present digs, present participle digging, simple past and past participle dug)

1. (slang) To understand or show interest in.
2. (slang) To appreciate, or like.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 432]:

     Louie said, "I dig this Theo. I'm gonna learn Swahili and rap with him."

Translations

Etymology 3

Shortening.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?d??/

Noun

dig (uncountable)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.

References

Anagrams

• GDI, GDI+, GID, IgD, gid

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/

Etymology 1

From Dutch dicht, from Middle Dutch dicht, from Old Dutch *th?ht, from Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz.

Adjective

dig (attributive digte, comparative digter, superlative digste)

1. closed, shut
2. dense

Etymology 2

From Dutch dichten, from Middle Dutch dichten, from Latin dict?.

Verb

dig (present dig, present participle digtende, past participle gedig)

1. (intransitive) to compose a poem

Derived terms

• digter
• gedig

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daj/, [?d??j], [d??]
• Rhymes: -aj

Pronoun

dig (nominative du, possessive din)

1. (personal) you (2nd person singular object pronoun)

Usage notes

Also used as a reflexive pronoun with a 2nd person subject

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?i??/

Noun

dig

1. inflection of deug:
   1. accusative/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative dual

Mutation

Romanian

Etymology

From French digue.

Noun

dig n (plural diguri)

1. dike

Declension

Swedish

Alternative forms

• dej (strongly colloquial)

Etymology

From Old Norse þik, from Proto-Germanic *þek, from Proto-Indo-European *te-ge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?j/
• Rhymes: -?j

Pronoun

dig

1. you (objective case, singular)

   Jag såg dig aldrig där

   I never saw you there

2. reflexive case of du: compare yourself

   Skulle du vilja lära dig jonglera?

   Would you like to learn how to juggle?

   Skar du dig på kniven?

   Did you cut yourself on the knife?

Usage notes

Note that some verbs have special senses when used reflexively. For example, do not confuse du lär dig att... ("you learn to...") [reflexive] with jag lär dig att... ("I teach you to...") or du lär dig själv att... ("you teach yourself to..."). Here, lär means teach(es) if it is not reflexive, but learn(s) if it is reflexive. Thus, the separate pronoun "dig själv" is needed when object and subject agree, even though the verb should not be used in the reflexive case.

Also note that in the imperative, when there's usually no explicit subject given, the "själv" is dropped.

Declension

See also

• dig själv

Yola

Alternative forms

• digger

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

dig

1. a duck

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Homophone: we'd

Etymology 1

From Middle English weed, weod, from Old English w?od (“weed”), from Proto-West Germanic *weud, from Proto-Germanic *weud? (“weed”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jood (“weed”), West Frisian wjûd (“weed”), Dutch wied (“unwanted plant, weed”), German Low German Weed (“weed”), Old High German wiota (“fern”).

Noun

weed (countable and uncountable, plural weeds)

1. (countable) Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing.
2. Short for duckweed.
3. (uncountable, archaic or obsolete) Underbrush; low shrubs.
4. A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
   1. (uncountable, slang) Cannabis.

      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
   2. (with "the", uncountable, slang) Tobacco.
   3. (obsolete, countable) A cigar.
5. (countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
6. (countable, Britain, informal) A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
7. (countable, figuratively) Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• grow like a weed
• weeds

Etymology 2

From Middle English weeden, weden, from Old English w?odian (“to weed”), from Proto-Germanic *weud?n? (“to uproot, weed”). Cognate with West Frisian wjûde, wjudde (“to weed”),Dutch wieden (“to weed”), German Low German weden (“to weed”).

Verb

weed (third-person singular simple present weeds, present participle weeding, simple past and past participle weeded)

1. To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

   I weeded my flower bed.

2. (library science) To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.

   We usually weed romance novels that haven't circulated in over a year.

Translations

See also

• weed out

Etymology 3

From Middle English wede, from Old English w?d (“dress, attire, clothing, garment”), from Proto-Germanic *w?diz, from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate with Dutch lijnwaad, Dutch gewaad, German Wat.

Noun

weed (plural weeds)

1. (archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 5 p. 75[2]:

     Shee, in a watchet weed, with manie a curious wave

     Which as a princelie gift great Amphitrite gave

2. (archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5 Scene 3

     DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;

     And then to Leonato's we will go.

     CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,

     Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!
3. (archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.

4. (archaic, especially in the plural as "widow's weeds") (Female) mourning apparel.
   • 1641, John Milton, Of Reformation in England, Second Book:

     In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.

Translations

Etymology 4

From Scots weid, weed. The longer form weidinonfa, wytenonfa (Old Scots wedonynpha) is attested since the 1500s. Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language analyses the longer form as a compound meaning "onfa(ll) of a weed", whereas the Scottish National Dictionary/DSL considers the short form a derivative of the longer form, and derives its first element from Old English w?dan (“to be mad or delirious”), from w?d (“mad, enraged”).

Noun

weed (plural weeds)

1. (Scotland) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
   • 1822, William Campbell, Observations on the Disease usually termed Puerperal Fever, with Cases, in The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 18:

     The patient […] aborted between the second and third month; […] felt herself so well on the second day after, that she went to the washing-green; and, on her return home in the evening, was seized with a violent rigor, which, by herself and those around her, was considered as the forerunner of a weed.

2. (Scotland) Lymphangitis in a horse.

Etymology 5

From the verb wee.

Verb

weed

1. simple past tense and past participle of wee

References

• weed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Webster, Noah (1828) , “weed”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• (tobacco; a cigar): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary