What's the difference between bag and bog?

Bag


Definition:

  • (n.) A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.
  • (n.) A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.
  • (n.) A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
  • (n.) The quantity of game bagged.
  • (n.) A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee.
  • (v. t.) To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.
  • (v. t.) To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.
  • (v. t.) To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.
  • (v. i.) To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.
  • (v. i.) To swell with arrogance.
  • (v. i.) To become pregnant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a paired study 12 platelet concentrates (PC) of Fresenius AS-104 cell separator were stored in new polyolefin bags of Fresenius (LE2) and Fenwal PL-732 bags.
  • (2) The agency, which works to reduce food waste and plastic bag use, has already been gutted , with its budget reduced to £17.9m in 2014, down from £37.7m in 2011.
  • (3) It won't be worth putting away his travel bags after returning from Perth as the G20 summit in Cannes, France, beckons.
  • (4) After clinical examination and semen analysis, we studied 4100 patients by scrotal US with sector mechanical (7.5 MHz) probe with water bag and by transrectal US for prostatic vesicular region evaluation with 5-6.5 MHz linear probe (lately we used biplanar probe).
  • (5) Placing the collection bag at the base of the machine provided excellent plasma removal rates with only minimal blood flows.
  • (6) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
  • (7) Six leukocyte-rich platelet concentrates (mean, 0.6 X 10(9) white cells per bag; range, 0.3 to 1.0 X 10(9) per container) were prepared by removing as much of the platelet-rich plasma from blood as possible.
  • (8) Eventually I was given a bag with my name on it, containing my jacket, wallet, and camera equipment.
  • (9) It is possible that in a similar future case, discontinuance of dextran infusion and administration of a single bolus of 12 bags of cryoprecipitate may be adequate treatment.
  • (10) The accuracy and reliability of the new system were checked by comparison with the traditional (Douglas bag) method.
  • (11) Presentation of a new case of polyorchism, its first clinical evidence being a picture o acute scrotal bag requiring surgical examination.
  • (12) "And secondly, there will also be help with sand bags, which could help prevent further flooding."
  • (13) Dynamic and static nuclear bag fibres are shown to correspond with 'bag1 fibres' and 'bag2 fibres', respectively (Ovalle & Smith, 1972).
  • (14) In contrast, bilateral lesions of all cerebral ganglion peripheral nerves did not abolish spontaneous egg laying, suggesting that sensory input to the cerebral ganglion is not necessary for activating the bag cells.
  • (15) But volcanic liberation has never really been his bag.
  • (16) "I suddenly became aware of my own colour and the way I was looked at, carrying a bag on a train.
  • (17) You will also need to find alternative disposable bags for shops to stock while people get into the habit of bringing their own bag, however, and for when they forget.
  • (18) An average of 241,273 viewers gathered round the television (hospital bed) clutching the remote (bag of grapes) staring at the small screen (out of the window).
  • (19) In addition, the bag does not abrade or desiccate the bowel, potentially reducing serosal injury and adhesion formation.
  • (20) Burst augmentation of R15 induced by bag-cell afterdischarge did not cause detectable changes in the phosphorylation of the major proteins we examined.

Bog


Definition:

  • (n.) A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
  • (n.) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
  • (v. t.) To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bogged down in the daily details of governing, renewing the vision after years in power seems beyond the social democrats.
  • (2) "I don't want to get too bogged down in it, but the thing is, I haven't taught my son a fraction of what he's taught me.
  • (3) Stay focused on the “why”, suggests Turner, “and don’t get bogged down in the ‘how’.
  • (4) He told the Question Time audience that he made a mistake by getting "bogged down" in an argument about the different types of rape, admitting that his comments about the differences between "serious, proper rapes" and others had "obviously upset a lot of people".
  • (5) If the majority of relevant tree pollens are to be included in a diagnostic or therapeutic programme in Western Sweden it should contain birch, alder, hazel, beech and bog-myrtle allergens.
  • (6) People can get bogged down in the process, because as you would expect is the normal way of events in these matters we take the legal advice, we act upon it, we mitigate the risks as best we can, but in the end the most important point here is the Australian public wants from their government a piece of legislation that will keep them safe as possible and that is what we are proposing.” The last cabinet discussion was the subject of an extraordinary leak to the Sydney Morning Herald , which showed ministers angry that the proposal had been sprung on them without a submission or documentation.
  • (7) "We could be forever caught up in NHS politics, get bogged down and be left with an uncertain future," said Bridge.
  • (8) New descriptions of three species and one subspecies of larvae of T. semenovi Ols., T. regularis Jaenn., T. laetetinctus laetetinctus Beck., and T. l. sordes Bog.
  • (9) But Heathrow’s new sustainability plan suggests other ways to offset the leap in emissions, including by restoring British peat bogs.
  • (10) Others took hold when peat bogs dried for agricultural use self-ignited, burning underground.
  • (11) She looks cheery when attacking, even cheerier when attacked and absolutely radiant when descending into a bog of half-truths and fictions.
  • (12) Among the substances discovered in bog-standard foodstuffs was the pesticide Chlorpyrifos, in some cases exceeding "safe" limits; DDT in 25% of fish and burger samples, and pesticides in 96% of flour tested, meaning there are residues in bread.
  • (13) "Gnnmph, I can't 'ave it 'ere, I 'aven't 'ad my enema," wails a labouring housewife, straining fruitlessly on a communal tenement bog as horrified neighbours look on in their rollers.
  • (14) The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains is currently searching for another missing man , the former Belfast monk Joe Lynskey, who they believe was buried in the same Oristown bog as Megraw.
  • (15) Michael Kelly (@MichaelKellyIC) It used to be a theology qualification was useful to cover the Vatican, now I'm wishing I did chemistry #Conclave March 13, 2013 12.19pm GMT The Vatican spokespeople seem to be getting a bit bogged down in descriptions of the smoke-making process.
  • (16) I call these bog-standard homes because you can see the toilet from the street.
  • (17) But I don't want to get bogged down in the issue of audiences and social content systems.
  • (18) Or if a former Tory politician writes a comment piece saying feminists should not get so bogged down in fights about identity, she will be told to check her privilege.
  • (19) A lot of the NGOs over there are doing great work and a lot of them are bogged down by the bureaucracy of a huge organisation.
  • (20) They were uncovered in a drainage ditch on the bog near the town of Kells.

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