What's the difference between tuck and tucking?

Tuck


Definition:

  • (n.) Food; pastry; sweetmeats.
  • (n.) A horizontal sewed fold, such as is made in a garment, to shorten it; a plait.
  • (n.) A small net used for taking fish from a larger one; -- called also tuck-net.
  • (n.) A pull; a lugging.
  • (n.) The part of a vessel where the ends of the bottom planks meet under the stern.
  • (n.) A long, narrow sword; a rapier.
  • (n.) The beat of a drum.
  • (v. t.) To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck up one's sleeves.
  • (v. t.) To make a tuck or tucks in; as, to tuck a dress.
  • (v. t.) To inclose; to put within; to press into a close place; as, to tuck a child into a bed; to tuck a book under one's arm, or into a pocket.
  • (v. t.) To full, as cloth.
  • (v. i.) To contract; to draw together.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Medial canthal tendon resection and tucks or transnasal wiring are then performed.
  • (2) Moses buzzed about with intent, while Cesc Fàbregas relished a forward role tucked just behind Costa.
  • (3) That’s before you even begin to consider the sort of outfits, polite eating and staged photos that guarantee I end up with a bleeding foot, skirt tucked into my knickers, mint in my teeth and a fixed smile last seen on a taxidermied pike.
  • (4) Iris tucking of at least one lens foot was noted in 28% of the cases.
  • (5) Tuck has been head here for 15 years and tells me at least a dozen times how happy she has been.
  • (6) The winger’s cross teed up Sánchez and he tucked away his 10th goal of the season.
  • (7) 8.23pm GMT "It's now time for you lucky lot to tuck into your dinners" - you know what that means?
  • (8) But now jellied eels, the gelatinous fare that makes even the most enthusiastic omnivore think twice before tucking in, are becoming popular outside the capital for the first time.
  • (9) 3.54am GMT 74 mins Zemanski will tuck into midfield and help keep an eye on Rosales.
  • (10) His profligacy was punished five minutes later when Jay Rodriguez demonstrated how the sidefoot finish ought to be executed, tucking away Adam Lallana's squared pass from the right at the far post.
  • (11) Ribery lashes the thing towards goal with thunderous fury, Pyatov does well to get down and save, but Mamadou Sakho is on hand to tuck the ball home from close range.
  • (12) Sure, she has large fangs tucked into her soft underside, but she’s docile and exotic.
  • (13) Whereas I always curiously seem to always be here in the office merely reporting the fact that celebrities are tucking into ... well, to be honest, I’ve no idea what the hell this is.
  • (14) It's not enough for arts to be tucked away in the 20% of time that's left in the curriculum."
  • (15) Monsieur Blue open daily midday-2am; Tokyo Eat open daily midday-midnight; Le Smack open midday-midnight Le Musée de la Vie Romantique Cafe Vie Romantique This is one of the most discrete but enchanting Parisian museums, an early 19th-century mansion tucked away down a narrow cul-de-sac in the backstreets of Pigalle.
  • (16) Lukaku was not to be denied, heading home an Arouna Koné cross in the 22nd minute and tucking in Ross Barkley’s exquisite pass on the stroke of half-time.
  • (17) A subhuman primate model of ASI was developed in order to study a novel muscle tuck procedure designed to preserve anterior ciliary artery circulation.
  • (18) Yet the enemy of the bourgeoisie is impeccably bourgeois, and when I arrived for our meeting at a swanky hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, I found Haneke – just off a flight from Vienna, where he lives – tucking into a luxurious lunch in the restaurant.
  • (19) And when Cameron goes home to sleep in Number 10, and President Xi tucks himself under the silken bedspread of the Belgian Suite, one can only hope that, for a moment at least, they might be painfully aware that just a mile or so away, in an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, a replica of a Chinese political prisoner is lying in a mock-up prison cell for all the world to see.
  • (20) Furthermore, since clonidine affects the Type 3 behavior associated with tucking, but not the somewhat similar coordinated behavior involved in hatching and emergence from the shell (climax), we propose that this later behavior pattern be given a new name, Type 4 motility.

Tucking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tuck

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Medial canthal tendon resection and tucks or transnasal wiring are then performed.
  • (2) Moses buzzed about with intent, while Cesc Fàbregas relished a forward role tucked just behind Costa.
  • (3) That’s before you even begin to consider the sort of outfits, polite eating and staged photos that guarantee I end up with a bleeding foot, skirt tucked into my knickers, mint in my teeth and a fixed smile last seen on a taxidermied pike.
  • (4) Iris tucking of at least one lens foot was noted in 28% of the cases.
  • (5) Tuck has been head here for 15 years and tells me at least a dozen times how happy she has been.
  • (6) The winger’s cross teed up Sánchez and he tucked away his 10th goal of the season.
  • (7) 8.23pm GMT "It's now time for you lucky lot to tuck into your dinners" - you know what that means?
  • (8) But now jellied eels, the gelatinous fare that makes even the most enthusiastic omnivore think twice before tucking in, are becoming popular outside the capital for the first time.
  • (9) 3.54am GMT 74 mins Zemanski will tuck into midfield and help keep an eye on Rosales.
  • (10) His profligacy was punished five minutes later when Jay Rodriguez demonstrated how the sidefoot finish ought to be executed, tucking away Adam Lallana's squared pass from the right at the far post.
  • (11) Ribery lashes the thing towards goal with thunderous fury, Pyatov does well to get down and save, but Mamadou Sakho is on hand to tuck the ball home from close range.
  • (12) Sure, she has large fangs tucked into her soft underside, but she’s docile and exotic.
  • (13) Whereas I always curiously seem to always be here in the office merely reporting the fact that celebrities are tucking into ... well, to be honest, I’ve no idea what the hell this is.
  • (14) It's not enough for arts to be tucked away in the 20% of time that's left in the curriculum."
  • (15) Monsieur Blue open daily midday-2am; Tokyo Eat open daily midday-midnight; Le Smack open midday-midnight Le Musée de la Vie Romantique Cafe Vie Romantique This is one of the most discrete but enchanting Parisian museums, an early 19th-century mansion tucked away down a narrow cul-de-sac in the backstreets of Pigalle.
  • (16) Lukaku was not to be denied, heading home an Arouna Koné cross in the 22nd minute and tucking in Ross Barkley’s exquisite pass on the stroke of half-time.
  • (17) A subhuman primate model of ASI was developed in order to study a novel muscle tuck procedure designed to preserve anterior ciliary artery circulation.
  • (18) Yet the enemy of the bourgeoisie is impeccably bourgeois, and when I arrived for our meeting at a swanky hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, I found Haneke – just off a flight from Vienna, where he lives – tucking into a luxurious lunch in the restaurant.
  • (19) And when Cameron goes home to sleep in Number 10, and President Xi tucks himself under the silken bedspread of the Belgian Suite, one can only hope that, for a moment at least, they might be painfully aware that just a mile or so away, in an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, a replica of a Chinese political prisoner is lying in a mock-up prison cell for all the world to see.
  • (20) Furthermore, since clonidine affects the Type 3 behavior associated with tucking, but not the somewhat similar coordinated behavior involved in hatching and emergence from the shell (climax), we propose that this later behavior pattern be given a new name, Type 4 motility.

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