What's the difference between cuddle and hug?

Cuddle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.
  • (v. t.) To embrace closely; to fondle.
  • (n.) A close embrace.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The main areas of neurological status and behaviour which are affected by obstetric conditions are lability of states, alertness, orientation, habituation, activity, hand to mouth activity, defensive movements, head control and resistance to cuddle.
  • (2) With Diego I wanted him to do a certain movement that he didn’t and I was disappointed and reacted and he reacted too, but at half-time in the dressing room there were a few kisses and cuddles,” Mourinho said after the game.
  • (3) But of course, he misses cuddles from his mum,” Johnson said.
  • (4) I feel creatively stifled by the BBC every single day - but I'm a writer and 'creatively stifled' counts as anything short of an instant series commission, a guaranteed second series, a cuddle, a guaranteed third series, and a whispered invitation back to 'my place' (where I'll explain that really I've got a five-series arc in mind, and a spin-off.)
  • (5) She's making the exact same noise, at the exact same volume, that rabbits do when you cuddle them a little bit too hard.
  • (6) This, he writes, is "the fundamental consumerist delusion – that other people care more about the artificial products you display through consumerist spending than about the natural traits you display through normal conversation, cooperation, and cuddles."
  • (7) For instance, being cuddled, played with and generally well cared for by your parents is powerfully associated with fewer social and emotional problems in later life.
  • (8) The mode of transmission to babies is not from cuddling or handling.
  • (9) When not at work, they’re just as likely to enjoy walking the dogs or cuddling up on the couch in loungewear (possibly more likely: dolling oneself up for a living is exhausting) as demanding you get yourselves to a pay-by-the-hour dungeon.
  • (10) Alongside his all-action posts of wrestling crocodiles and cuddling tigers, Kadyrov has issued a heartfelt plea for help finding his missing cat.
  • (11) In being coerced to kiss or cuddle someone they don't want to, that child is being told that how they feel, what they want to do with their own bodies, doesn't really matter.
  • (12) Leat was also seen lifting up and touching young girls in the playground and tickling and cuddling pupils in class.
  • (13) Three distinctive interactional patterns presenting adaptational challenges are discussed: the family's adaptation to the child's hyperactivity, the family's adaptation to the child's avoidance of contact and cuddling from early infancy, and perceived incompatibility between the child's personality and the parents' style.
  • (14) "But it's just Heartbeat with an umbilical hernia," bleat the unbelievers, pinching their delicate nosey-woses at the sight of steaming prolapses and swatting away the cuddles and godliness with their Game Of Thrones box sets.
  • (15) I always felt a bit sorry for her biological children Mark and Carol, wondering from whom they would get their cuddles.
  • (16) The treatment was given on cue and consisted of rocking, cuddling, visual and verbal interaction, and non-nutritive sucking to satiety.
  • (17) He then told her "to cuddle him like she would one of her teddies".
  • (18) Babies cry for lots of reasons – tiredness, a dirty nappy, wind, being too hot or cold, wanting a cuddle, being bored or overstimulated.
  • (19) While better educated staff may be very welcome when it comes to playing imaginative games with children, or introducing them to the alphabet, there's no substitute for pairs of hands to do up little buttons, push buggies and give out cuddles.
  • (20) Zuckerberg recently set up a page for his dog Beast , including photographs and details such as his personal interests ("cuddling, loving, eating").

Hug


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To cower; to crouch; to curl up.
  • (v. i.) To crowd together; to cuddle.
  • (v. t.) To press closely within the arms; to clasp to the bosom; to embrace.
  • (v. t.) To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.
  • (v. t.) To keep close to; as, to hug the land; to hug the wind.
  • (n.) A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
  • (2) He was greeted in Kyoto by Abe, with the men dispensing with the formal handshake that starts most head of governments' greetings in favour of a full body hug.
  • (3) Every time we have a negotiation, the bidding process (for the project) slows and postpones things.” Water quality has become a hot-button issue as the Olympics draw closer with little sign of progress in cleaning up the fetid bay, as well as the lagoon system in western Rio that hugs the sites of the Olympic park, the very heart of the games.
  • (4) "When my mother saw me walk in the door I thought she was going to hug me, but instead she picked up the telephone to call that man to tell him where I was," she says.
  • (5) Hugging the other side of the Dora Riparia river in Vanchiglia is Foster + Partners ’ curvaceous new Campus Luigi Einaudi, while to the west in Borgo Dora is performance venue Cortile del Maglio and writing school Scuola Holden .
  • (6) But then Weir has won the London Marathon six times and beat Hug by a single second in the 2012 race.
  • (7) He offerered some hope – "just as mankind had the power to push the world to the brink so, too, do we have the power to bring it back into balance" but not enough for one woman, who concluded: "He sure needs a hug."
  • (8) Then Obama himself swooped in with a big bear hug around Giffords's tiny frame, grinning widely before climbing to the rostrum for the speech.
  • (9) If that persuades you to go and hug the nearest tree, then great, said Peter Wohlleben.
  • (10) He rides horses, launches pipelines, hugs tigers and fires pistols.
  • (11) Whereupon Madonna's PR guy Trevor Neilson (who doesn't seem to be too great at his job judging by the way in which a routine baby-hugging photo-op has descended into a hilarious international shitshow) hit back, giving quotes to The Globe and Mail reporter Geoffrey York.
  • (12) As the final whistle blew, Wenger, suddenly wreathed in smiles, hugged his staff, players and even Alan Pardew, a managerial rival with whom he has not always enjoyed the most cordial of technical area relations.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj share a hug onstage during the MTV Video Music Awards.
  • (14) Chelsea’s Diego Costa strikes at the last to deny Manchester United Read more That said, the width wasn’t provided in the conventional manner: Van Gaal fielded no touchline-hugging wingers, and instead fielded players who drifted inside into central positions.
  • (15) After filling out the ballot, Clinton was overwhelmed by hugs and handshakes outside the polling station.
  • (16) How long with the post-Super Bowl Harbaugh hug be, if indeed there will be a post-Super Bowl Harbaugh hug...
  • (17) An activist has discipline, goals and strategy.” Amy K. Nelson (@AmyKNelson) Amazing scene here at QuickTrip: exiled Tibetan monks here & people are in awe, hugging them, wanting photos.
  • (18) Balyana’s mayor said the statue was intended to portray a “martyred soldier hugging his mother”.
  • (19) They then performed the Swift track Bad Blood, ending the performance with a hug .
  • (20) Dot blot analysis showed that both intestinal and placental AP mRNAs were expressed in HuG-1 cells concurrently.

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