(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.
Lum
Definition:
(n.) A chimney.
(n.) A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
(n.) A woody valley; also, a deep pool.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spindles of the slow SOL and fast EDL muscles had similar features, whereas differences were observed in the organization of the proximal (SOL and EDL) and distal (LUM) muscles.
(2) 2 In all the species studied, enkephalins appeared to be highly concentrated in the striatum and hypothalamus while very low amounts were found in the cerebe-lum and hippocampus.
(3) The Barkandji elders before us fought against the removal of people from our country Glyniss Church Dr Ken Lum, an anthropologist and research manager with NTSCORP, told Guardian Australia he had conducted hundreds of interviews with Barkandji people, tracing their genealogies back to 1850.
(4) With uncrossed conditions (Lum tests on Lum pedestals or Chr tests on Chr pedestals), we obtained the conventional dipper function, that is, the function of threshold test intensity was highly asymmetric about zero pedestal intensity, and strong pedestals induced strong masking.
(5) A corresponding CCAAT-binding factor (CBF) of 999 amino acids has recently been cloned and shown to stimulate transcription selectively from the hsp70 promoter in a CCAAT element-dependent manner (L. Lum, L. Sultzman, R. Kaufman, D. Linzer, and B. Wu, Mol.
(6) Indications are given that LUM inhibits the oxidative metabolism of both cell types.
(7) Spindles in LUM muscles had fewer static intrafusal fibers, a higher ratio of dynamic to static gamma axons, and a higher incidence of skeletofusimotor (beta) innervation to intrafusal fibers than spindles in the SOL or EDL muscles.
(8) Comparative studies on the effects of the luminescence indicators 5-Amino-2,3-dihydro-1,4-phthalazinedione (Luminol, LUM) and 7-Dimethylamino-naphthalene-1,2-dicarbonic-acidhydracide (DMNH) in measuring the chemiluminescence of ingesting and non-ingesting polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) and monocytes (MOC) are described.
(9) The nucleotide sequence was found to differ in several aspects from the previously published sequence (B. Wallace, Y. Yang, J. Hong, and D. Lum, J. Bacteriol.
(10) No statistically significant differences were seen between superficial and deep thirds (UI: 45% vs. 43%; DI: 33% vs. 32%; LUM: 22% vs. 24%; IC: 3% vs. 3% of points counted, p greater than .1, paired t-test).
(11) During this hyperactivation stage, spleen and peritoneal cells from infected mice showed a "spontaneous" CL-Lum response (without any stimulus added in vitro) absent in noninfected mice.
(12) The inhibitory effect of LPS on the LUM-CL of phagocytosing cord blood PMN has been much more pronounced than on the LUM-CL of adult PMN.
(13) Of 2,786 sera screened, 262 (9.5%) had antibody to one or more viruses Twenty-two sera, selected to represent different species of origin and reaction profiles, were titrated against nine CAL viruses: LUM, SSH, TVT, Tahyna (TAH), California encephalitis (CE), La Crosse (LAC), Inkoo (INK), Melao (MEL), and Guaroa (GRO).
(14) When used with high-dose CsA, etoposide doses should be reduced by approximately 50% to compensate for the pharmacokinetic effects of CsA on etoposide (Lum et al, J Clin Oncol, 10:1635-1642, 1992).
(15) The various flashes were incremental (+Lum) or decremental (-Lum) yellow luminance flashes or green (+Chr) or red (-Chr) isoluminant chromatic flashes.
(16) One group of monoclonal antibodies, designated LUM, reacts with the luminal surface of the epithelium.
(17) In previous studies (Yang, F., Naylor, S., Lum, J., Cutshaw, S., McCombs, J., Naberhaus, K., McGill, J., Adrian, G., Moore, C., Barnett, D., and Bowman, B.
(18) Moreover, spleen cells from acutely infected mice displayed a hyperactivity in the CL-Lum response when recombinant interferon-gamma was added in vitro.
(19) L-3s maintained in water or in Lum's solution for 3 hours retained infectivity when tested in orally or subcutaneously exposed jirds; furthermore, L-3s recovered from mosquitoes dead for 24 to 48 hours were also infective by either portal of entry in jirds.
(20) Both, "spontaneous" and zymosan stimulated CL-Lum responses were inhibited by 100 microM azide and by 0.8 microM superoxide dismutase, suggesting the involvement of hemoproteins and superoxide anion in the measured responses.