(v. t.) To press closely within the arms; to clasp to the bosom; to embrace.
(v. t.) To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.
(v. t.) To keep close to; as, to hug the land; to hug the wind.
(n.) A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(2) He was greeted in Kyoto by Abe, with the men dispensing with the formal handshake that starts most head of governments' greetings in favour of a full body hug.
(3) Every time we have a negotiation, the bidding process (for the project) slows and postpones things.” Water quality has become a hot-button issue as the Olympics draw closer with little sign of progress in cleaning up the fetid bay, as well as the lagoon system in western Rio that hugs the sites of the Olympic park, the very heart of the games.
(4) "When my mother saw me walk in the door I thought she was going to hug me, but instead she picked up the telephone to call that man to tell him where I was," she says.
(5) Hugging the other side of the Dora Riparia river in Vanchiglia is Foster + Partners ’ curvaceous new Campus Luigi Einaudi, while to the west in Borgo Dora is performance venue Cortile del Maglio and writing school Scuola Holden .
(6) But then Weir has won the London Marathon six times and beat Hug by a single second in the 2012 race.
(7) He offerered some hope – "just as mankind had the power to push the world to the brink so, too, do we have the power to bring it back into balance" but not enough for one woman, who concluded: "He sure needs a hug."
(8) Then Obama himself swooped in with a big bear hug around Giffords's tiny frame, grinning widely before climbing to the rostrum for the speech.
(9) If that persuades you to go and hug the nearest tree, then great, said Peter Wohlleben.
(10) He rides horses, launches pipelines, hugs tigers and fires pistols.
(11) Whereupon Madonna's PR guy Trevor Neilson (who doesn't seem to be too great at his job judging by the way in which a routine baby-hugging photo-op has descended into a hilarious international shitshow) hit back, giving quotes to The Globe and Mail reporter Geoffrey York.
(12) As the final whistle blew, Wenger, suddenly wreathed in smiles, hugged his staff, players and even Alan Pardew, a managerial rival with whom he has not always enjoyed the most cordial of technical area relations.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj share a hug onstage during the MTV Video Music Awards.
(14) Chelsea’s Diego Costa strikes at the last to deny Manchester United Read more That said, the width wasn’t provided in the conventional manner: Van Gaal fielded no touchline-hugging wingers, and instead fielded players who drifted inside into central positions.
(15) After filling out the ballot, Clinton was overwhelmed by hugs and handshakes outside the polling station.
(16) How long with the post-Super Bowl Harbaugh hug be, if indeed there will be a post-Super Bowl Harbaugh hug...
(17) An activist has discipline, goals and strategy.” Amy K. Nelson (@AmyKNelson) Amazing scene here at QuickTrip: exiled Tibetan monks here & people are in awe, hugging them, wanting photos.
(18) Balyana’s mayor said the statue was intended to portray a “martyred soldier hugging his mother”.
(19) They then performed the Swift track Bad Blood, ending the performance with a hug .
(20) Dot blot analysis showed that both intestinal and placental AP mRNAs were expressed in HuG-1 cells concurrently.
Hut
Definition:
(n.) A small house, hivel, or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a slightly built or temporary structure.
Example Sentences:
(1) When one pig was housed in a hut with a small outside yard a nychthemeral rhythm was sometimes superimposed on that imposed by feeding.
(2) HUT-78 cells were infected with a reverse transcriptase (RT)-positive supernatant of a culture of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) from an AIDS patient and then cloned.
(3) The normal hut (histidine utilization) operons, as well as those with mutations affecting the regulation of their expression, of Salmonella typhimurium were introduced on an F' episome into cells of S. typhimurium and Klebsiella aerogenes whose chromosomal hut genes had been deleted and into cells of Escherichia coli, whose chromosome does not carry hut genes.
(4) At first they seem an unlikely pair – Holland, 64, grew up in a large Irish immigrant family in Lancashire; Chesang, 40 years her junior, was raised in a hut in Kenya .
(5) Two lymphocyte lysates and the HIV-infected Hut cell lysate reacted with the Western blot strip-positive dog serum; however, no reactions were seen with the Western blot strip-negative dog serum.
(6) This receptor differs from the TCGF receptor on HUT-102B2 cells (apparent Mr = 50,000) because of differences in post-translational processing.
(7) The local inanimate environment, including mess hut, sleeping huts and sleeping bags used on expeditions, was searched for contamination by S. aureus but none was detected.
(8) Immediately prior to the OST, there were no differences in heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac output, mean arterial pressure and total peripheral resistance for HDT and HUT.
(9) Transfected substrains of HuT-12 fibroblasts that expressed abundant levels of mutant beta-actin (Gly-244----Asp-244) produced subcutaneous tumors in athymic mice after long latent periods (1.5 to 3 months).
(10) Syncytium formation between HUT-78 cells persistently infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and uninfected CD4-bearing MOLT-4 or CEM cells results in a rapid destruction of the MOLT-4 or CEM cells.
(11) The location of the positive immunostaining in the HUT 102 nuclei was reconfirmed by the reaction in isolated nuclei.
(12) The fact that the original huts were swallowed by the sea in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami gave a slight edge to our first night at Mamboz Beach Cabanas .
(13) In preliminary studies, the OKT27b antibody coprecipitated a 55-kDa peptide, as well as the 95-kDa peptide, from the radiolabeled cells of the HuT 102B2 cell line.
(14) The induction of oligo-2',5'-adenylate synthetase (2-5AS) by IFN was studied in five human T-cell lines persistently infected with HTLV-I (MT-1, MT-2, SMT-1, HUT 102 and OKM-2).
(15) It is suggested that the hut genes of P. aeruginosa may be regulated in the same way as in Klebsiella aerogenes, by induction by urocanate and activation by either the cyclic AMP-dependent activator protein or by glutamine synthetase.
(16) The present study investigated the release from dogs and subsequent survival of Echinococcus eggs in Turkana huts, water-holes and in the semi-arid environment.
(17) The orderly village of Agulodiek in Ethiopia's western Gambella region stands in stark contrast to Elay, a settlement 5km west of Gambella town, where collapsed straw huts strewn with cracked clay pots lie among a tangle of bushes.
(18) Subjects were passively tilted from supine to 30 degrees, 60 degrees, and 90 degrees HUT and HDT.
(19) Sisal eaves curtains deterred mosquitoes from hut entry but did not kill those that had entered.
(20) The school is a collection of hastily built thatched huts scattered round a patch of empty land.