What's the difference between bottle and jug?

Bottle


Definition:

  • (n.) A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
  • (n.) The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
  • (n.) Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.
  • (v. t.) To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.
  • (n.) A bundle, esp. of hay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
  • (2) The three-year-old comes into the kitchen for a drink, and as Steve opens the fridge, I can see it contains nothing apart from a half-full bottle of milk.
  • (3) Testing of CGRP (ICV) in both single bottle conditioned-aversion and differential starvation paradigms was done.
  • (4) However, amenorrheic women who introduced bottle feeding, had a higher risk of pregnancy after 6 months postpartum than those who remained fully nursing.
  • (5) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
  • (6) For now, he leans on the bar – a big man, XL T-shirt – and, in a soft Irish accent, orders himself a small gin and tonic and a bottle of mineral water.
  • (7) In the first of two studies, we randomized 2-d-old miniature piglets to receive bottle-feedings of a swine weaning milk formula with (group F + I) or without (group F) the addition of insulin.
  • (8) It is available as a 3.5 percent solution in 500 ml plastic bottles (Haemaccel) and in addition to the polygeline there is sodium, potassium, calcium and chloride ions.
  • (9) When the rats were given the two-bottle taste aversion test neither compound was found to be aversive.
  • (10) But the truth is that too often, it’s nearly impossible to get the most basic facts about the food we buy for our families.” If the alterations are adopted, drinks companies, for example, would no longer be able to treat a 20oz bottle of soda as containing 2.5 servings of 8oz each for the purpose of labelling estimated calorie levels.
  • (11) A gas chromatographic method is described for the quantification of levels of 1,1,1-trichloroethane in vinyl chloride polymer resins and in poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) bottles used in the packaging of foods.
  • (12) For each blood culture, 10 ml of venous blood was evenly inoculated into aerobic and anaerobic culture bottles and inoculated for 7 days using a radiometric system.
  • (13) The dissolution rate of the microcapsules was determined by the rotating-basket and rotating-bottle methods.
  • (14) Newborn nursery nursing staff members were surveyed to determine their attitudes and teaching practices regarding breast- and bottle-feeding.
  • (15) The Authors evaluate some parameters relative to the concentration of fluoride in the potable water and in that bottled available in the territory of the Ussl no.
  • (16) In multiple logistic models, accounting for independent effects of age, smoking, pack-years, parents' smoking, socio-economic status, body mass index, significantly increased odds ratios were found in males for the associations of: bottled gas for cooking with cough (1.66) and dyspnoea (1.81); stove for heating with cough (1.44) and phlegm (1.39); stove fuelled by natural gas and fan or stove fuelled other than by natural gas with cough (1.54 and 1.66).
  • (17) Videos where I "down" a bottle of ketchup "for a laugh".
  • (18) Updated at 6.55pm BST 6.51pm BST Asked whether Bayern might bottle it because of the expectation on them tonight, Thomas Muller shrugs and says: "Except for the game against Barcelona, there hasn't been a situation where Bayern weren't favourites."
  • (19) Given its timing, he wrote, the book "can't help being about the war", but then whisky had always been "up to its pretty bottle neck" in politics.
  • (20) In one case the outcome of labour was successful only moderate transfusion being required, and in the other the outcome was fatal despite the use of about 100 bottles of blood in the first 24 hours.

Jug


Definition:

  • (n.) A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.
  • (n.) A pitcher; a ewer.
  • (n.) A prison; a jail; a lockup.
  • (v. t.) To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare.
  • (v. t.) To commit to jail; to imprison.
  • (v. i.) To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
  • (v. i.) To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of quails and partridges.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
  • (2) Allow to cool slightly for a few minutes before serving, with a jug of chilled cream alongside.
  • (3) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
  • (4) Our kind waiter, Paul, delighted our tot with her own special jug and cup, and steaming bowlfuls of spätzle pasta.
  • (5) You will never see cream in my house that is not in a jug, nor salt that is not in a cellar.
  • (6) I requested a jug from the nurse but she said the jug was broken and they had no others available.
  • (7) They took the term skiffle from a favourite record, Home Town Skiffle, a compilation of American jug band styles and western swing.
  • (8) I'm not too well up on the Middle Eastern judicial system, but couldn't he get slung in the jug for a very long time for that?
  • (9) "Look – Putin didn't find down there jugs that had lain there for many thousands of years.
  • (10) If anything, his brother David looks more like Wallace because he really does have Wallace-style jug ears.
  • (11) When a glass+jug (900 ml) was visible the alcoholics drank significantly more than the non-alcoholics.
  • (12) The product was jugged to be galactonic acid, based on the behavior of the acetylmethyl ester derivative of the product and the pentaacetyl derivative of the galactonic methyl ester during gas chromatography.
  • (13) During one technical challenge, I saw one baker use, at the very least, six glass bowls, a saucepan, a sieve, a spatula, a silicon sheet, spoons, a pastry brush, a skewer, a cake tin, palette knives, piping bags, a measuring jug, scissors, a rolling pin, spoons and a cooling rack.
  • (14) Earlier this year, Waitrose reported that sales of 1 litre mixing bowls had more than doubled, measuring jug sales had quadrupled and rolling pins were up 40% .
  • (15) A row of Toby jugs grinned and grimaced from an ornament rail in the hall.
  • (16) Still employed in the early 1990s, the classic label sported a blue-and-white striped milk jug beside two cherry-red mugs, resting on sheaves of wheat, against an luminous yellow arc of - well, obviously, an incandescent light bulb.
  • (17) I was disciplined for not changing the water often enough for a woman I was caring for despite the jug never being less than half full.
  • (18) Thymol mouthwash which had been made up and distributed in communal jugs was found to be contaminated with the epidemic strain and was the likely source for this outbreak.
  • (19) The woman declined an offer to post the jugs back to her afterwards, and the constable now has one "at home as a little keepsake because I thought it was such a nice gesture".
  • (20) He is, for instance, technically taller than Martin Freeman but not by much more than a jug of Bree's finest hobbit ale.