What's the difference between jug and nightingale?

Jug


Definition:

  • (n.) A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.
  • (n.) A pitcher; a ewer.
  • (n.) A prison; a jail; a lockup.
  • (v. t.) To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare.
  • (v. t.) To commit to jail; to imprison.
  • (v. i.) To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
  • (v. i.) To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of quails and partridges.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
  • (2) Allow to cool slightly for a few minutes before serving, with a jug of chilled cream alongside.
  • (3) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
  • (4) Our kind waiter, Paul, delighted our tot with her own special jug and cup, and steaming bowlfuls of spätzle pasta.
  • (5) You will never see cream in my house that is not in a jug, nor salt that is not in a cellar.
  • (6) I requested a jug from the nurse but she said the jug was broken and they had no others available.
  • (7) They took the term skiffle from a favourite record, Home Town Skiffle, a compilation of American jug band styles and western swing.
  • (8) I'm not too well up on the Middle Eastern judicial system, but couldn't he get slung in the jug for a very long time for that?
  • (9) "Look – Putin didn't find down there jugs that had lain there for many thousands of years.
  • (10) If anything, his brother David looks more like Wallace because he really does have Wallace-style jug ears.
  • (11) When a glass+jug (900 ml) was visible the alcoholics drank significantly more than the non-alcoholics.
  • (12) The product was jugged to be galactonic acid, based on the behavior of the acetylmethyl ester derivative of the product and the pentaacetyl derivative of the galactonic methyl ester during gas chromatography.
  • (13) During one technical challenge, I saw one baker use, at the very least, six glass bowls, a saucepan, a sieve, a spatula, a silicon sheet, spoons, a pastry brush, a skewer, a cake tin, palette knives, piping bags, a measuring jug, scissors, a rolling pin, spoons and a cooling rack.
  • (14) Earlier this year, Waitrose reported that sales of 1 litre mixing bowls had more than doubled, measuring jug sales had quadrupled and rolling pins were up 40% .
  • (15) A row of Toby jugs grinned and grimaced from an ornament rail in the hall.
  • (16) Still employed in the early 1990s, the classic label sported a blue-and-white striped milk jug beside two cherry-red mugs, resting on sheaves of wheat, against an luminous yellow arc of - well, obviously, an incandescent light bulb.
  • (17) I was disciplined for not changing the water often enough for a woman I was caring for despite the jug never being less than half full.
  • (18) Thymol mouthwash which had been made up and distributed in communal jugs was found to be contaminated with the epidemic strain and was the likely source for this outbreak.
  • (19) The woman declined an offer to post the jugs back to her afterwards, and the constable now has one "at home as a little keepsake because I thought it was such a nice gesture".
  • (20) He is, for instance, technically taller than Martin Freeman but not by much more than a jug of Bree's finest hobbit ale.

Nightingale


Definition:

  • (n.) A small, plain, brown and gray European song bird (Luscinia luscinia). It sings at night, and is celebrated for the sweetness of its song.
  • (n.) A larger species (Lucinia philomela), of Eastern Europe, having similar habits; the thrush nightingale. The name is also applied to other allied species.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The letter to Florence Nightingale was written by Bernita Decker as part of a nursing course assignment for our Nurse Educator advisor, Betty Pugh.
  • (2) The interplay of policies and principles to which Miss Nightingale subscribed, the human frailty of one of her women, Miss Nightingale's illness, and the confusion and stress which characterized the Crimean War are discussed.
  • (3) Nightingale's ability to react to and obstruct progressive movement with which she disagreed is also review.
  • (4) N was there at that time but Nightingale did not go out until 2007.
  • (5) The court martial centre at Bulford where sergeant Nightingale was tried, is quite unlike any ordinary court of law.
  • (6) However, the military prosecutors decided to order a fresh court martial even though Nightingale is being medically discharged early next year.
  • (7) Nightingale was originally sentenced to 18 months in detention last year but freed after a high-profile campaign.
  • (8) N said Nightingale had been "agitated and hyper" and sometimes used the wrong words for simple objects.
  • (9) One of the earliest accounts of nursing research, which indicates the power of making systematic observations, was Florence Nightingale's study.
  • (10) Nightingale admitted the offences last year and was detained for 18 months, but following a well-organised campaign spearheaded by his wife the sentence was reduced and the conviction quashed because of the way the case had been handled by the court.
  • (11) Nightingale initially claimed the pistol was a war trophy given to him by Iraqis he had helped during a posting there, and he had accumulated the ammunition because he worked as a range instructor and had failed to book it back through poor administration.
  • (12) In 2007, Nightingale was posted to Iraq to help combat suicide attacks on allied forces.
  • (13) N told the court martial that he and Nightingale had known each other for 12 or 13 years and were best friends.
  • (14) Nightingale was brought back to the UK from Afghanistan where he was serving and told civilian police the pistol had been a present from Iraqis he had worked with in 2007.
  • (15) Outside the military court in Bulford, Wiltshire, Nightingale's wife, Sally, said the family were devastated by the result.
  • (16) Blackett, who sat with a five-person board, said if it had not been for a previous court of appeal decision that reduced the original custodial sentence, Nightingale would be going to prison.
  • (17) Blackett said Nightingale's assertions that he was "a scapegoat or the victim of some wider political agenda" was "absolute nonsense".
  • (18) Florence Nightingale said that visiting St Peter's was, her death aside, the greatest experience she expected to have.
  • (19) After the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale persisted in researching the health conditions of British troops throughout the Empire.
  • (20) The Roy and Nightingale models share more similarities than differences: both describe their metaparadigm (ie, environment, person, health, and nursing) in relation to their models.

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