What's the difference between jug and pug?

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.

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.

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