What's the difference between beg and peg?

Beg


Definition:

  • (n.) A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.
  • (v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.
  • (v. t.) To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.
  • (v. t.) To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.
  • (v. t.) To take for granted; to assume without proof.
  • (v. t.) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
  • (v. i.) To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I had to beg to stay in the apartment I was living in at the time for another night.
  • (2) She said: “Begging can cause considerable concern to residents, workers and visitors, particularly those who feel intimidated by this activity.” In Merseyside, Ch Insp Mark Morgan insisted his force did not prosecute vulnerable people unless they were aggressive, repeat offenders who had failed to engage in offers of support.
  • (3) The other day I had to BEG a meeting with [BBC1 controller] Jay Hunt, just so I could explain what we're spending all her money on in Doctor Who.
  • (4) x head "We have the begging bowl out to Europe in the hope of stabilising our economy.
  • (5) This begs the question of whether racism informed the way he was treated.
  • (6) The weakest free schools have ineffective leadership ... with little challenge to tackle poor performance.” The report said that the best leaders “understand inspection”, begging the question of whether schools are expected to lead for Ofsted?
  • (7) Since this dedicated unit was disbanded there has been a significant increase in the numbers of people who are begging, she told the council earlier this year.
  • (8) Flattered, entreated, begged by the rest of the committee, he did not yield: "Recommendations are recommendations, there it is"; and "I honestly believe it's all there"; "I promise you I have done my very best"; "if I hadn't thought my recommendations were fit for purpose, I would not have made them"; "with all due respect, I could not have done any more than I did".
  • (9) Any Championship managers watching this will most definitely not be looking forward to next season’s meetings with Newcastle, which rather begs the question: how on earth did it come this?
  • (10) I begged them to take me to the toilet when we stopped but they refused.
  • (11) Two of them begged for a rescue mission in phone calls yesterday, as the battles raged through a powerful sandstorm that shrouded the city from journalists and anxious refugees who have been watching the fighting from the safety of Turkish soil, just a few hundred feet away.
  • (12) She said that although Unicef was doing all it could to protect Syrian children and to help them continue their education, it was a difficult task: some have taken to begging or working in fields or factories to help supplement their families' income, and many girls are getting married earlier without finishing their schooling.
  • (13) Trump responded by recalling Romney “begging” for his endorsement four years before.
  • (14) I had seen him begging in the city centre a few times and had slipped him a few bob from time to time.
  • (15) Some say they were trying to reach Algeria to beg on city streets, others that Europe was their destination.
  • (16) However this begs the question, if Spotify are not the enemy, who is?
  • (17) Then go beg the lady with the clipboard, while others swan past to join the cocktail-swilling vacationers swathed in white linen on the porch.
  • (18) However, providers, physicians and hospitals are begging for relief from the burden of uncompensated care.
  • (19) Instead, I made my way to Satis to beg Miss Havisham to secretly confer several thousand pounds on Herbert.
  • (20) It begs the question – were the comments he made after the Hillsborough panel report sincere or just sound bites?"

Peg


Definition:

  • (n.) A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.
  • (n.) A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.
  • (n.) One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
  • (n.) One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.
  • (n.) A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg."
  • (v. t.) To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.
  • (v. t.) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points.
  • (v. i.) To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Plasma renin activities (PRA) and aldosterone concentrations increased in parallel over a wide range of plasma volume deficits produced in unanesthetized rats by extravascular administration of polyethylene glycol (PEG) solution.
  • (2) To determine whether long-term enteral feedings can improve nutritional status and lung function parameters in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), 11 patients (8 female, 3 male, age 7 to 23 years) received a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) since February 1988.
  • (3) Advisable in a first time for the feeding of patients with palliative treatment, we propose PEG for patients in position to have a long and difficult rehabilitation of swallowing.
  • (4) Metoprolol was introduced into the stomach with a homogenized meal containing a nonabsorbable marker, [14C]-PEG 4000, and another marker, PEG 4000, was perfused continuously into the duodenum just below the pylorus.
  • (5) Decreased consistency of the stools was seen after PEG in both groups (p < 0.001).
  • (6) Since PEG-1000 treatment of HPRT- Chinese hamster cells in the absence of human cells yielded no HPRT+ cells, it is concluded that the element responsible for the restoration of rodent HPRT was contributed by the human cells and not by the agent employed to promote fusion.
  • (7) The CD spectra of these aggregates showed psi-type anomalies and intensities 10-100 times greater than those obtained with the dispersed DNA solutions in the absence of PEG.
  • (8) We next tried to prepare virus-free PEG-PLP-Hb from HBV or HTLV-I positive blood.
  • (9) The yes camp should have made no bones about a call to the nation to shake things up, by bringing him down a peg or two.
  • (10) The fast process in the presence of PEG was identified as due to rapid interbilayer monomer diffusion between closely apposed vesicles, and, in the absence of PEG, as due to monomer diffusion through the aqueous phase.
  • (11) Since it was first described Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) has rapidly become the preferred method for gastrostomy tube placement.
  • (12) Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has become a commonly performed procedure to provide nutritional support to chronically ill patients.
  • (13) CIC-PEG and TRAb levels were similar in newly diagnosed and relapsed patients, being higher than in controls (p less than 0.01) and in remission patients (p less than 0.01).
  • (14) At a second operation, 10 days later, these adhesions were graded and lysed, after which the animals received one of the following solutions intraperitoneally: 5 per cent PEG 4000 (n = 21), 25 per cent PEG 4000 (n = 23), 32 per cent dextran 70 (n = 22) or isotonic saline (n = 25), or were left as an untreated control group (n = 20).
  • (15) The main histological features of the tumour were enormous, but relatively regular, acanthosis of rete pegs revealing no similarity to the squamous-cell carcinoma, and an exclusively parakeratottic eleidine-containing central plug.
  • (16) One hundred thirty-six percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomies (PEGs) were placed in 126 patients with head and neck malignancies.
  • (17) Sera from patients (n = 24) with hemolytic transfusion reactions and no detectable antibody by routine technics were tested; two sera had specific antibodies by the PEG technic.
  • (18) The PEG derivatization of enzymes with this procedure is less inactivating than those previously reported.
  • (19) Both liposome-mediated delivery and PEG conjugation offer an additional benefit over native superoxide dismutase and catalase because they can increase cellular antioxidant activities in a manner that can provide protection from both intracellular and extracellular superoxide and hydrogen peroxide.
  • (20) Both from diagnostic and prognostic points of view, PEG is of less value is communicating hydrocephalus on account of the many false findings.

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