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Zug

Pronunciation: /t͡suːk/

“Zug” is a German word. Its 11 meanings in English:

noun

  1. train (multiple vehicles one behind the other, particularly travelling on rails)
  2. platoon
  3. pull (force that pulls in a specific direction)
  4. draught (of air)
  5. drag, draught (from a cigarette, etc.)
  6. draught, gulp (from a drink)
  7. stroke, move (singular pulling arm movement such as to proceed; e.g. in swimming, rowing, climbing)
  8. feature, trait
  9. move, play
  10. pulley, pulling mechanism

proper noun

  1. Zug (a canton of Switzerland)

Etymology

From Middle High German zuc, zug, from Old High German zug, from Proto-West Germanic *tugi, from Proto-Germanic *tugiz, an abstract noun belonging to Proto-Germanic *teuhaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Dutch teug, Low German Tog, Hunsrik Zugh, English tug, Old English tyġe. Related to and synchronically serving as the associated noun of ziehen (“to pull, to…

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