What's the difference between dug and dung?

Dug


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Dig
  • (n.) A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Dig.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
  • (2) But the last people you'd rely on are those who dug the ditch and shoved you in – particularly when they're still building and still shoving.
  • (3) However, under conditions of low stringency, the DUG S and M RNA probes hybridised to the respective S and M segments of Ganjam (GAN) virus (another member of the NSD serogroup).
  • (4) After hiding in bushes, where she was bitten by a snake, she decided to return to her family, only to find them being lined up next to one of the newly dug pits that had appeared near Tutsi homes.
  • (5) For miles, only the strip of land for the track is dug up, but in places the footprint is much wider: access routes for work vehicles; holding areas for excavated earth; new electricity substations; mounds of ballast prepared for the day when quarries cannot keep pace with the demands of the construction; extra lines for the trains that will lay the track.
  • (6) When used in an enzyme linked immunoassay (ELISA), the DUG N protein reacted with polyclonal mouse immune ascitic fluids raised against either CCHF or Hazara viruses (both members of the CCHF serogroup of nairoviruses).
  • (7) On information known publicly, one Tamil man was detained when he came to Australia because he was a lawyer for the LTTE’s civil administration, another because he dug ditches on LTTE orders for civilian Tamils to shelter in during air raids by government aircraft.
  • (8) The DUG S RNA probe also hybridised to the S segments of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus and Hazara (HAZ) virus (members of the CCHF serogroup).
  • (9) Cloned cDNA derived from the small (S) and medium (M) genomic RNA segments of Dugbe (DUG) virus, isolate ArD44313, a member of the Nairobi sheep disease (NSD) serogroup of nairoviruses (family, Bunyaviridae) was used to prepare 32P-labelled DNA and RNA probes.
  • (10) In the last few weeks, Miami has had to rely on comebacks, most memorably when they dug themselves out a 27-point hole against the Cleveland Cavaliers .
  • (11) We are the first generation in human civilization in which bodies are buried and then dug up and scattered,” Masovic said.
  • (12) The protesters have dug in at the square, with a hardcore of several hundred setting up a makeshift camp with tents, log fires and soup kitchens, while a large stage blasts pop music and speeches by opposition leaders.
  • (13) Later, the group raised €1,000 to have it plumbed into the caravan and a septic tank dug, so the toilet works.
  • (14) He arrived through Miami international airport on a Monday afternoon and I was so anxious that on my six-hour drive to pick him up, I dug my nails into the steering wheel leaving marks I can still see today.
  • (15) The freezing New Year rain drove into the dug-outs in such torrential fashion that he initially sheltered in the tunnel but such inclement weather quickly proved the least of his problems.
  • (16) The 26 miles of tunnel being dug under the heart of the capital – picking a careful way among ancient remains, beneath prime property and past the oldest subterranean railway in the world – is restating Britain's traditional claim to be a world leader in the field.
  • (17) So this is the hole the US president has dug for himself.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Schlumberger stall at the DUG Eagle Ford Conference and Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas, US.
  • (19) These included small test plots of dug-up soil that can still be seen from the bedroom.
  • (20) Gates was unequivocal in expressing his belief that they had been, telling a gathering of marines at the heavily fortified Sangin base: "Before you arrived here, the Taliban was dug in deep and, as the British before can attest, this district was the most dangerous not only in Afghanistan but maybe the whole world.

Dung


Definition:

  • () of Ding
  • (n.) The excrement of an animal.
  • (v. t.) To manure with dung.
  • (v. t.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.
  • (v. i.) To void excrement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A total of 202 cultures of yeasts were isolated and characterized from king crab and Dungeness crab meat.
  • (2) 15 species were found on dung pellets of wild living herbivorous mammals.
  • (3) dives females oviposited in a medium of rat dung and water.
  • (4) Dorian Lucas, a nuclear specialist at energy consultancy, Inenco, made his comments after it was revealed that power group, EDF, had won permission to change the rules for its Dungeness B station.
  • (5) The result of this investigation indicated that probably the majority of the indoor catches are due to the migration of outdoor-produced sandflies specially in close surroundings where dried cow dung droppings were left.
  • (6) It was in the US that things really kicked off, when Giuliani declared: “The idea of, in the name of art, having a city subsidise art, so-called works of art, in which people are throwing elephant dung at a picture of the Virgin Mary, is sick.” He threatened to remove funding from the Brooklyn Museum unless “the director comes to his senses”.
  • (7) The only site rejected in the draft document was Dungeness, chiefly because of its "unique ecosystem".
  • (8) The composition of the myxobacterial flora depends on ecological factors (kind of dung pellets, rock, bark and pH).
  • (9) A smaller group of 9 horses showed a subacute course while 22 horses had chronic enteritis with intermittent diarrhoea--often semisolid like cow's dung--increased peristalsis, weight loss and, in some cases, hypoproteinaemia with subcutaneous edema.
  • (10) The dung of both the white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum, and the black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis, is considered to be a possible alternative site for the immatures of C. kanagai.
  • (11) Also featured are the puffer fish, dung beetle, veiled chameleon and moon jellyfish.
  • (12) Among dairy cows, wet cattle dung and all that, he was in a tie and jacket.
  • (13) Clifford Newbold, an architect who was involved in the design of Milbank Tower and Dungeness Lighthouse, had hoped to restore the palace to its Georgian splendour, but he died last year.
  • (14) The adults, puparium and 3rd instar larva of a dung-breeding fly, Musca nevilli sp.
  • (15) Predictions for this model are tested using all available data from the dung fly, Scatophaga stercoraria.
  • (16) The incidence of extensive damage to natural dung pats within five days of deposition, caused by biotic factors, another possible cause of D viviparus third stage larvae dispersal, varied from 0 to 92 per cent of the pats depending on their degree of dryness.
  • (17) Invasion by the recently defined dung beetle, Maladera matrida, is a new phenomenon which causes extreme distress, usually starting after invasion by the insect in the early morning hours.
  • (18) The quantitative and comparative analysis of the Purkinje cells indicates the higher mean linear density in the anterior lobe, with regard to posterior lobe, in the cerebellum of the dung cook, Gallus gallus.
  • (19) In 1999 Rudy Giuliani, the then mayor of New York City, tried to shut down Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition after taking offence at Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary, which featured a portrait of the Virgin Mary created partly from elephant dung.
  • (20) The transmission of Johne's disease was possibly promoted by furnishing the shelters with a scraper system to remove the dung, which system also reached the compartment housing young cattle.

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