(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.
Pug
Definition:
(v. t.) To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.
(v. t.) To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging, 2.
(n.) Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.
(n.) A pug mill.
(n.) An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck.
(n.) A name for a monkey.
(n.) A name for a fox.
(n.) An intimate; a crony; a dear one.
(n.) Chaff; the refuse of grain.
(n.) A prostitute.
(n.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.
(n.) Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Syncope and sudden death occurs in certain purebred Pug dogs which have been found to have intermittent sinus pauses and paroxysmal second degree heart block on electrocardiographic (ECG) study.
(2) "gamma"-type phages contain DNA molecules of uniform size (about 52 kb) and of variable ends; their genome is able to promote highly efficient transduction (pug type) regardless of the origin of the right arm.
(3) Clinical and pathologic features of a sporadic, necrotizing meningoencephalitis affecting adolescent and mature pug dogs are described.
(4) Upstairs from the shop, full of quirky impulse buys such as Gemma Correll's Pugs not Drugs tote bags and Emily Warren's papier-mâché busts, there's studio and workshop space, with screen-printing equipment and sewing machines for regular workshops of up to six people.
(5) When PUG was tested for synergistic inhibition in the presence of caffeine, the Dixon plots of reciprocal velocity versus PUG concentration at different fixed caffeine concentrations provided intersecting lines with interaction constant (alpha) values of 0.95-1.38, indicating that the binding of one inhibitor is not significantly affected by the binding of the other.
(6) In solution, PUG was shown to be a potent inhibitor of phosphorylase b, directly competitive with alpha-D-glucopyranose 1-phosphate (glucose-1-P) (Ki = 0.40 mM) and noncompetitive with respect to glycogen and AMP.
(7) The properties of the second channel (channel 2), which is the more extensive channel, have been investigated with the potent beta-glycosidase inhibitor D-gluconohydroximo-1,5-lactone N-phenylurethane (PUG).
(8) Dogs of the Poodle, Pug, German Shepherd Dog, Cocker Spaniel, Bulldog, Schnauzer, Doberman Pinscher breeds, of mixed breeding, and of terrier breeds other than the 2 aforementioned were not found to have a higher prevalence, when compared with the general hospital population.
(9) Laryngeal obstruction occurs commonly in brachycephalic dogs (Bulldog, Boxer, Boston Terrier, Pug, Pikingese).
(10) A six-year old female pug had very severe dysponea.
(11) Lentiginosis profusa was diagnosed in 3 pedigree Pugs namely two unrelated parents and their female offspring.
(12) (1988) Biochemistry 27, 6733-6741] has shown that PUG binds in the catalytic site of phosphorylase b crystals with its gluconohydroximolactone moiety occupying a position similar to that observed for other glucosyl compounds and the N-phenylurethane side chain fitting into an adjacent cavity with little conformational change in the enzyme.
(13) However, in the presence of AMP, PUG exhibited complex kinetics, acting as a noncompetitive inhibitor with respect to glucose-1-P, while a twofold decrease of PUG binding to the enzyme-AMP-glycogen complex was observed.
(14) As he spoke an excited pug dog set itself the challenge of leaping backwards and forwards across his latest creation, Boyhood Line, a stripe of brilliant white limestone in the lush grass.
(15) The tale, drawn in the retro style of the golden age of adventure comics, portrays Johnson as a "dashing, pug-nosed chap, gallivanting around the world in search of danger and adventure".
(16) Christmas Pugs Snuggly pugs 3. iPad Art - Morgan Freeman Finger Painting Art with heart 5.
(17) The effect of the beta-glycosidase inhibitor D-gluconohydroximo-1,5-lactone-N-phenylurethane (PUG) on the kinetic and ultracentrifugation properties of glycogen phosphorylase has been studied.
(18) Ultracentrifugation experiments demonstrated that PUG does not cause any significant dissociation of phosphorylase alpha tetramer.
(19) Similarities among them were striking and consisted of varying combinations of the following features: moderate growth retardation; mild to severe mental retardation; facial elongation with frontal bossing; primary telecanthus and downward-slanting palpebral fissures; broad, flat, nose bridge and pug nose; pouting lower lip and blunt, square chin; umbilical eversion; deep sacral pit; and, in males, moderate to severe external genital anomalies ranging from mild hypospadias to genital ambiguity.
(20) Furthermore the dimerization of phosphorylase alpha by glucose is completely prevented in the presence of PUG.