What's the difference between lug and snug?

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.

Snug


Definition:

  • (superl.) Close and warm; as, an infant lies snug.
  • (superl.) Close; concealed; not exposed to notice.
  • (superl.) Compact, convenient, and comfortable; as, a snug farm, house, or property.
  • (n.) Same as Lug, n., 3.
  • (v. i.) To lie close; to snuggle; to snudge; -- often with up, or together; as, a child snugs up to its mother.
  • (v. t.) To place snugly.
  • (v. t.) To rub, as twine or rope, so as to make it smooth and improve the finish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If you make a small diagonal snip in each corner of the paper, it will help fit the paper snugly into the corners of the tin.
  • (2) The backpack was held snugly in place by shoulder and body straps.
  • (3) They protect against (most) rain, and keep your toes snug.
  • (4) The netropsin molecule displaces the spine of hydration and fits snugly within the minor groove in the A-A-T-T center.
  • (5) This excellent 19th-century boozer has private mahogany snugs, with etched-glass partitions, so you can hide from the shoppers and enjoy a quiet pint (or cheeky gin, a house speciality).
  • (6) Discovery of antiviral agents of this type will, therefore, depend on designing compounds that can enter and fit snugly into the hydrophobic pocket of a particular viral capsid protein.
  • (7) Only gut, polyglycolic acid, and polydioxanone granny knots were as secure as square knots; no loosely tied (500 g tension) asymmetric square knots were as secure as snug square knots, and only polydioxanone and polypropylene loose square knots were as secure as snug square knots.
  • (8) The fryingpan should be large enough to hold the pork and rhubarb fairly snugly.
  • (9) The fibrous and lipomatous tissue snugly surrounds the fascicles and cannot be separated from them without damaging them, even if the finest microsurgical techniques are used.
  • (10) In these a portion of the superior surface of S1 is removed in such a way that the body of S1 fits snugly against the under surface of the repositioned body of L5.
  • (11) The buttons are more flush against its surface, the twin sticks fit more snugly against the player's thumbs and both the shoulder buttons and the D-pad respond to the slightest pressure.
  • (12) The wheels on our bikes had barely stopped turning by the time we'd drained the first pint of Guinness in front of a log fire in one of its many snug alcoves.
  • (13) Certainly, many of his acting projects fit snugly with his social views, if not overtly.
  • (14) The anticodon stem is extended by two non-Watson-Crick base pairs, leaving the three anti-codon bases unpaired and splayed out to bind snugly into three separate complementary pockets in the protein.
  • (15) In fact, he's more like the sort of fellow you'd find in the snug of a West Country pub.
  • (16) Each helmet is designed to fit snugly against the prominent aspects of the infants' cranium and to be loose fitting where the head is shallow.
  • (17) "There's a lady in the snug who wants to give you a thousand pounds."
  • (18) He liked Somerset because it was "less cleaned-up" than the home counties: as Whitfield writes, he had a hatred for "English gentility … 'snug cottages with roses around the door'".
  • (19) He shows me a large, hard, hollow ball of mud with a snug entrance hole carved into it.
  • (20) A small hole is drilled in the distal shaft to allow the placement of a spiral wire, allowing a snug fit even in older, well used electrosurgical handles.

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