What's the difference between lug and luggage?

Lug


Definition:

  • (n.) The ear, or its lobe.
  • (n.) That which projects like an ear, esp. that by which anything is supported, carried, or grasped, or to which a support is fastened; an ear; as, the lugs of a kettle; the lugs of a founder's flask; the lug (handle) of a jug.
  • (n.) A projecting piece to which anything, as a rod, is attached, or against which anything, as a wedge or key, bears, or through which a bolt passes, etc.
  • (n.) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
  • (n.) The lugworm.
  • (v. i.) To pull with force; to haul; to drag along; to carry with difficulty, as something heavy or cumbersome.
  • (v. i.) To move slowly and heavily.
  • (n.) The act of lugging; as, a hard lug; that which is lugged; as, the pack is a heavy lug.
  • (n.) Anything which moves slowly.
  • (n.) A rod or pole.
  • (n.) A measure of length, being 16/ feet; a rod, pole, or perch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’re sacrificing our gold medal to help people in need,” said Thomas Glückselig, lugging a mound of bedding.
  • (2) This will be the ninth episode, in which Jenna Coleman's Clara must lug the Doctor and his Tardis around in her handbag after they get shrunken down to miniature size.
  • (3) Perhaps it was because, despite being the first portable music player, it wasn't as easy to lug around as the MP3 player; its chunky dimensions compelled it to be worn clipped to a belt, creating the danger that it would unclip itself – which it did with obnoxious regularity – and crash to the ground, disgorging its batteries.
  • (4) Yes, we crack mean jokes about it – who wants to invest in a relationship with a LUG?
  • (5) The paper presents a mathematical model and differential equations to be used in computer-aided estimations of the positive pressure in human lugs upon space cabin blast decompression.
  • (6) The first day is spent lugging food and supplies up to a camp in the woods, where we meet Randall, a climbing guide, and narrowly miss seeing a bear (the tracks were fresh).
  • (7) For the bands themselves, it can be a real slog, lugging gear around a roadblocked Austin, playing shows without a soundcheck or rehearsal, and being forced to make small-talk with drunk industry types.
  • (8) In two groups of healthy children synchronized with a diurnal activity (light-on at 07.00) and a nocturnal rest(light-off at 21.00), lug resistance (R1) and dynamic lung compliance (C1 dyn) were measured at fixed clock hours (07.30, 11.30, 16.30, 22.30).
  • (9) Couriers lug huge, metre-square boxes containing ornamental garden fountains, car parts, bulky mattress-toppers and duvets.
  • (10) How can a child thrive while lugging such a burden?
  • (11) A special feature of the catheter was the tissue-retaining lugs that ensured a high degree of stability in situ.
  • (12) At one point, she even burrows in her straw basket – the sort you might lug round a French market – for pen and paper, the sort of person always ready to note down a thought, pose a new question.
  • (13) From rusting trays on wheels to wagons cobbled together from spare parts, each is designed to lug as much fuel as possible.
  • (14) Mortensen’s memories are of Jo lugging along a rucksack twice the size of her, which would stretch down below her knees as she marched along “beaming” and singing folk songs.
  • (15) In third grade [year four in the UK] I would have to go out after school and lug water at a farm eight kilometres away.
  • (16) She has arrived lugging a gym bag, hair wet from what she describes as a "sleepover" at a friend's house, and she is not being euphemistic.
  • (17) Pearson starts to uncover the drives of the savage consumers of Middle England who lug home refrigerators, toasters, televisions, beat up Asian shopkeepers and lavish affection on the three giant teddy bears sitting in the atrium of the Metro-Centre.
  • (18) For all the talk of Heathrow as an engine of growth, many of the new jobs would be low-tech and low-pay: serving the coffee in another Costa, or lugging more suitcases out of holds.
  • (19) While standups would put out their cigarette and stroll on stage to talk about themselves, Poehler and her gang would be lugging around costumes and wigs and fake blood.
  • (20) Inside the main conference room is the newest trophy, the 2014 Stockholm Human Rights Award , a heavy statuette El-Ad lugged home from Sweden in November.

Luggage


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This morning he has mundane tasks to attend to – the logistics of players’ luggage for Basel – but the man they call Monchi is the sporting director and the architect who transformed the club.
  • (2) People were carrying luggage and fathers carried young children on their shoulders.
  • (3) But she said on Wednesday that privacy issues prevented her from naming the passenger, who was escorted off the plane along with his two travelling companions and their luggage.
  • (4) But they don’t keep it secret: it is printed on every piece of luggage.
  • (5) Passengers have been flying from Gatwick without their luggage after a breakdown in the airport’s baggage system delayed check-ins and caused chaos in terminals.
  • (6) The brand's luggage was supersized, with large holdalls carried by some models.
  • (7) An Australian couple were unwittingly conned into becoming multi-million dollar drug mules after winning a dream trip to Canada with new luggage thrown in.
  • (8) In Knox's case, she was supposed to have gone to work at a bar, and Sollecito was supposed to have gone to a train station to pick up a friend's luggage.
  • (9) I would like him to acknowledge in front of the court that he realises what it means that he was even in Auschwitz in the first place, let alone that he probably took the luggage from some of the 49 members of my family who were murdered there,” said 90-year-old Eva Fahidi from Budapest who was sent to Auschwitz as a teenager, and last saw her mother and 11-year-old sister on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
  • (10) Baggage handling systems were also affected: some passengers who did manage to get on the small number of flights to take off from the UK reported reaching their destinations without their luggage.
  • (11) On July 1, a former U.S. defense attache, David McNevin, was caught at Nairobi airport with illegal ivory in his luggage.
  • (12) Updated at 2.13pm BST 7.47pm BST Luggages at the crash site of MH17.
  • (13) Airlines are only obliged to pay passengers a maximum of around £1,200 when their luggage is lost or damaged.
  • (14) A woman at the United Airlines counter at Beijing airport told Reuters that Chen's luggage was checked in for the flight to Newark, New Jersey, and he was later seen on the flight by reporters.
  • (15) When boarding the train we found that the space was occupied by people and luggage, luckily they moved without too many dirty looks.
  • (16) "The train suddenly shook violently, casting luggage all around," Xinhua quoted survivor Liu Hongtao as saying.
  • (17) Other luggage would probably provide some insulation in the event of a fire in the baggage bins, and many people already check their laptops, but radically increasing the number of batteries in various states of repair in the inaccessible cargo area inevitably increases risk.
  • (18) A Downing Street spokeswoman did not deny that there had been concern about screening of luggage 10 months ago but refused to elaborate on what exactly the UK had requested in terms of improvements.
  • (19) The evacuation of British tourists was allowed to proceed after Downing Street said there had been an agreement with the Egyptian authorities on a “package of additional security measures”, including empty holds, extra screening on passengers, and checks on their hand luggage.
  • (20) Anthony Kwan Hok-chun, who works for the Hong Kong-based Initium media group, was held briefly on 23 August after trying to leave from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport with a flak jacket and helmet in his hand luggage.

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