What's the difference between firmly and snug?

Firmly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a firm manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (2) However, direct measurements of mediator release should be carried out to reach a firm conclusion.
  • (3) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
  • (4) One is that the issue of whether the World Cup should go ahead in Russia and Qatar still firmly remains on the table.
  • (5) Neil Blessitt Bristol • We need to establish what the legal position is with regard to the establishment by the government of a private company co-owned by the Department of Health and the French firm Sopra Steria.
  • (6) Particular attention has been paid to diabetes mellitus and chronic pancreatitis, but a firm conclusion cannot be drawn.
  • (7) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
  • (8) Cloning of the A-T allele(s) will assist in the early or prenatal diagnosis of A-T and provide a firm basis for determining who, in the general population, carries this gene and is therefore at a high risk of cancer.
  • (9) We are firmly opposed to that," an unidentified spokesman from the ministry of industry and information technology told the state news agency, Xinhua.
  • (10) Officers arrested her last month during the protest against oil drilling by the energy firm Cuadrilla at Balcombe in West Sussex – a demonstration Lucas has attended several times.
  • (11) "At the moment there are about 1,600 criminal justice firms, and they all have a contract with the lord chancellor.
  • (12) VAT increases don't just hit the poor more than the rich, they also hit small firms, threaten retail jobs and, by boosting inflation, could also lead to higher interest rates."
  • (13) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
  • (14) We firmly believe that a systematic approach to the 12-lead ECG can provide information that can diagnose the difference between ventricular and supraventricular tachycardia, and in many instances diagnose the mechanism and site of origin of the supraventricular tachycardia.
  • (15) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
  • (16) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
  • (17) Doubts about Hinkley Point have deepened after a detailed report by HSBC’s energy analysts described eight key challenges to the project, which will be built by the state-backed French firm EDF and be part-financed by investment from China .
  • (18) China's relations with the NTC were strained last week when it emerged Chinese arms firms had talked to Muammar Gaddafi's representatives about weapons sales .
  • (19) It may not point to independence – nor, given that large swaths of Wales remain firmly dominated by Labour, mean any huge advance for Plaid Cymru.
  • (20) In order to identify these anchorage structures, the non-DNA materials that remain firmly bound to chromosomal DNA under conditions that disintegrate the high salt-stable architecture of nuclei were investigated.

Snug


Definition:

  • (superl.) Close and warm; as, an infant lies snug.
  • (superl.) Close; concealed; not exposed to notice.
  • (superl.) Compact, convenient, and comfortable; as, a snug farm, house, or property.
  • (n.) Same as Lug, n., 3.
  • (v. i.) To lie close; to snuggle; to snudge; -- often with up, or together; as, a child snugs up to its mother.
  • (v. t.) To place snugly.
  • (v. t.) To rub, as twine or rope, so as to make it smooth and improve the finish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If you make a small diagonal snip in each corner of the paper, it will help fit the paper snugly into the corners of the tin.
  • (2) The backpack was held snugly in place by shoulder and body straps.
  • (3) They protect against (most) rain, and keep your toes snug.
  • (4) The netropsin molecule displaces the spine of hydration and fits snugly within the minor groove in the A-A-T-T center.
  • (5) This excellent 19th-century boozer has private mahogany snugs, with etched-glass partitions, so you can hide from the shoppers and enjoy a quiet pint (or cheeky gin, a house speciality).
  • (6) Discovery of antiviral agents of this type will, therefore, depend on designing compounds that can enter and fit snugly into the hydrophobic pocket of a particular viral capsid protein.
  • (7) Only gut, polyglycolic acid, and polydioxanone granny knots were as secure as square knots; no loosely tied (500 g tension) asymmetric square knots were as secure as snug square knots, and only polydioxanone and polypropylene loose square knots were as secure as snug square knots.
  • (8) The fryingpan should be large enough to hold the pork and rhubarb fairly snugly.
  • (9) The fibrous and lipomatous tissue snugly surrounds the fascicles and cannot be separated from them without damaging them, even if the finest microsurgical techniques are used.
  • (10) In these a portion of the superior surface of S1 is removed in such a way that the body of S1 fits snugly against the under surface of the repositioned body of L5.
  • (11) The buttons are more flush against its surface, the twin sticks fit more snugly against the player's thumbs and both the shoulder buttons and the D-pad respond to the slightest pressure.
  • (12) The wheels on our bikes had barely stopped turning by the time we'd drained the first pint of Guinness in front of a log fire in one of its many snug alcoves.
  • (13) Certainly, many of his acting projects fit snugly with his social views, if not overtly.
  • (14) The anticodon stem is extended by two non-Watson-Crick base pairs, leaving the three anti-codon bases unpaired and splayed out to bind snugly into three separate complementary pockets in the protein.
  • (15) In fact, he's more like the sort of fellow you'd find in the snug of a West Country pub.
  • (16) Each helmet is designed to fit snugly against the prominent aspects of the infants' cranium and to be loose fitting where the head is shallow.
  • (17) "There's a lady in the snug who wants to give you a thousand pounds."
  • (18) He liked Somerset because it was "less cleaned-up" than the home counties: as Whitfield writes, he had a hatred for "English gentility … 'snug cottages with roses around the door'".
  • (19) He shows me a large, hard, hollow ball of mud with a snug entrance hole carved into it.
  • (20) A small hole is drilled in the distal shaft to allow the placement of a spiral wire, allowing a snug fit even in older, well used electrosurgical handles.