What's the difference between jag and wag?

Jag


Definition:

  • (n.) A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.
  • (n.) A part broken off; a fragment.
  • (n.) A cleft or division.
  • (v. t.) To cut into notches or teeth like those of a saw; to notch.
  • (n.) A small load, as of hay or grain in the straw, or of ore.
  • (v. t.) To carry, as a load; as, to jag hay, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Jags are doing a nice job of showing a 'worst case scenario'.
  • (2) Truth told, I simply hadn't the time to do anything more than snap a bar of expensive chocolate into jagged shards and put it in the middle of the table.
  • (3) From here the view is breathtaking; looking down on Loch Coruisk and tiny sandy beaches below all ringed by the looming jagged peaks of the Cuillin.
  • (4) The turbine housings, which are half-complete, resemble the jagged ramparts of a fort.
  • (5) She told the Jags their actions to improve the military sexual abuse crisis was "not enough" Gillibrand asked Harding which he believed had done their duty in the Aviano case – the jury or the convening authority.
  • (6) Is it a waste of money to spend this fantastic sum on one painting, a canvas depicting a mess of jagged female limbs?
  • (7) Biopsy specimen from deltoid muscle consisted of untypable fibers of varying diameters with jagged Z-lines and increased variability of myofibrillar diameters.
  • (8) The Jags' owner, Shahid Khan, is investing substantial sums of his own money into upgrading Jacksonville's existing stadium , and successful businessmen rarely spend their own cash for no reason.
  • (9) A breakthrough was already looking inevitable and, sure enough, in the seventh minute Bale embarked on another jagged dash down the left.
  • (10) Surfaces with poor cleanability before and after abrasion were characterized by pitting, crevices or jags.
  • (11) On the day of the accident, Simon Lowe, Jagged Globe’s managing director, flew to Kathmandu, on to Lukla, and then made the full day’s trek to her home.
  • (12) When it rains in Bogotá the clouds swallow up the jagged Andean peaks that surround the city.
  • (13) The reduced-quintinomial distribution provides theoretical results that describe the characteristics of the PND's quite well, accounting for the smooth or scalloped behavior of short-counting-time data, the jagged nature of long-counting-time data, and the Poisson-like character of very-short-counting-time data.
  • (14) He lifts his trouser leg to reveal a long, jagged scar on his left ankle.
  • (15) The cells of the stratum corneum are rough, jagged, and contain myriad niches in which bacteria dwell.
  • (16) Jaguars 20-7 Titans The boos are ringing out in Tennessee, where Jordan Todman just took the ball in on a five-yard run to restore the Jags’ two-score advantage.
  • (17) When they lifted them they saw through the tears the smiles of the doubters, their jagged teeth shining through oily jaws.
  • (18) The scenic drive along Bear Lake Road skirts broad meadows full of elk grazing beneath jagged peaks.
  • (19) And there is the flinty personality, sharp, jagged, unyielding.
  • (20) Photograph: Alamy While the Westfjords’ main roads (Route 60 and Route 61) provide views along the jagged routes that rise, fall, twist and turn along each fjord, there are also activities to try: kayaking, hiking, cycling.

Wag


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head.
  • (v. i.) To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate.
  • (v. i.) To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir.
  • (v. i.) To go; to depart; to pack oft.
  • (v.) The act of wagging; a shake; as, a wag of the head.
  • (v.) A man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a wit; a joker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In cell-free protein-synthesizing systems containing an S30 extract from liver and brain cortex tissues of 22-day-old fetuses and of male WAG rats (1-900 days old), the minimal rate of protein synthesis was observed in the fetuses, while the maximal one - in 7-day-old animals.
  • (2) And yet, when it comes to the Wag obsession, we seem to have regressed many decades.
  • (3) Kevin Rudd's election campaign in 2007 was dubbed "hurry up and wait" by some wags.
  • (4) Afterwards, the scourge of corrupt politicians wagged his own clean finger in front of the cameras.
  • (5) The wag added the line "these allegations are completely unsubstantiated and have no basis in reality," which was duly tweeted out by the account.
  • (6) The long-term surviving AUG rats from both the CsA alone group and the CsA plus 250 rads pretreated islets group were challenged with WAG dendritic cells (DC).
  • (7) The most active were oak bark, sage and St. John's wort grass WAG extracts, horse radish root and leaf AG extracts, celandine grass WA extract; bur marigold and yarrow grass WA extracts were active towards S. aureus.
  • (8) It is the media that has chosen to describe them as Wags and define them by their marital status.
  • (9) (There was the ­notorious Manchester United Christmas party in 2007, when the Wags were apparently told to stay at home, 100 handpicked women were brought in to party with the players, and the night ended with a rape allegation that was later dropped.)
  • (10) In her speech, Morgan conceded: “I’m a firm believer that, alongside ensuring the rigour of our assessments, we must never let the assessment tail wag the dog of what is taught in school.” Glenys Stacey, Ofqual’s chief regulator, has argued that practical work would not be ignored.
  • (11) Tempting though it is to lecture President Hu on human rights (and it is right to keep the spotlight on the persecution of the pro‑democracy group Charter 08 and the imprisonment of Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo), the wagging finger rarely works in diplomacy.
  • (12) – or, as it's known among production wags, The Eggs Factor .
  • (13) Using rats of the inbred BN and WAG strain, we tested the hypothesis that chronic dietary choline supplementation would especially affect the timing behavior of BN rats because of their lower cholinergic activity and their poor performance in aversively motivated learning and memory tasks.
  • (14) The coupling constant between the C11H and C12H wags as well as the C12H wag force constant are unusually low compared to those of retinal model compounds.
  • (15) There are three typical types of manicure: the regular polish; the gel or acrylic spatula-shaped talons beloved of the tabloid Wag; and the super-cool, bejewelled nail art more commonly seen in either east London or Japan.
  • (16) infusion) to WAG rats bearing hind limb solid colonic adenocarcinoma implants.
  • (17) At 30 to 40 minutes after injection, tail wagging was the only adverse reaction (EEG artifact) observed.
  • (18) Examination by use of WAG syngeneic female rats was made on 4 rat rhabdomyosarcoma sublines expressing different metastatic potentials for their abilities to degrade proteoglycans and glycoproteins of the extracellular matrix (ECM), deposited by corneal endothelial cells and metabolically labeled with [3H]glycosamine and [35S]sulfate.
  • (19) The low-wavenumber lines are enhanced in the resonance Raman spectrum by conformational distortion, and the uncoupling of the 11- and 12-hydrogen wags is caused by additional protein perturbations.
  • (20) "They're going into this world of glamour ­modelling ­because it's the only route they can see to wealth and success, and the Wag culture is bound up with that.

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