(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.
Money
Definition:
(n.) A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin.
(n.) Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling.
(n.) In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money.
(v. t.) To supply with money.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
(2) However, used effectively, credit can help you to make the most of your money - so long as you are careful!
(3) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(4) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
(5) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
(6) I hope they fight for the money to make their jobs worth doing, because it's only with the money (a drop in the ocean though it may be) that they'll be able to do anything.
(7) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(8) A good example is Apple TV: Can it possibly generate real money at $100 a puck?
(9) The London Olympics delivered its undeniable panache by throwing a large amount of money at a small number of people who were set a simple goal.
(10) It just means there won't be any money when another child is in need.
(11) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
(12) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
(13) For me, it would be to protect the young and vulnerable, to reduce crime, to improve health, to promote security and development, to provide good value for money and to protect.
(14) But there was a clear penalty on Diego Costa – it is a waste of time and money to have officials by the side of the goal because normally they do nothing – and David Luiz’s elbow I didn’t see, I confess.
(15) "I have tried to borrow the money, but it was simply impossible."
(16) I would like to see much more of that money go down to the grassroots.” The Premier League argues that its focus must remain on investing in the best players and facilities and claims it invests more in so-called “good causes” than any other football league.
(17) The money will initially be sought from governments.
(18) They can go into the money markets: a highly male-dominated industry.
(19) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(20) For Burroughs, who had been publishing ground-breaking books for 20 years without much appreciable financial return, it was association with fame and the music industry, as well as the possible benefits: a wider readership, film hook-ups and more money.