(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.
Yell
Definition:
(v. i.) To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror.
(v. t.) To utter or declare with a yell; to proclaim in a loud tone.
(n.) A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Independent noted that one of the female protagonists yelled "You c***!"
(2) I started yelling at him to come back,” Brittany Nicely, of Dayton, told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
(3) Residents had called police after spotting a man wandering around the park and yelling incoherently.
(4) Five minutes from time a fat red shirt stalked past making the tosser sign and, for emphasis, yelling: "Fucking wankers!"
(5) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
(6) On the whole though, there is not much yelling but much tapping of keyboards.
(7) While Terry said that he did not see anyone else while confined at Homan in 2011, he said he heard people yelling “no, no, no” and “stop”.
(8) He lay on his back with his shoulders on the grass, his colleagues standing around, too nonplussed to yell their praises.
(9) When David Tennant was waxing eloquent in that legal drama The Escape Artist, no one yelled out from the jury that his watch looked bloody expensive.
(10) Bob Wigley, the Yell chairman and former Merrill Lynch senior executive, has emerged as a possible contender for the role of ITV chairman.
(11) "Yell remains our least preferred stock in the sector and has to be seen as a high-risk, speculative investment," said analysts at Numis.
(12) He said he was stopped by a Hi Tech security guard who yelled at him that they were trespassing and demanded his driver’s licence.
(13) Members of the House of Representatives voted to remove all flags at the federal Capitol, after a heated procedural debate led by Republicans that led to yelling and the display of the Confederate flag – on the House floor.
(14) During the manifestation, I heard an elder woman yell “Why are they murdering them?
(15) Donald Trump has reportedly yelled down the telephone at Australia’s prime minister and veered off into rants about China and Nato with French leader François Hollande.
(16) "Sometimes people do things to one another that don't make them feel good," Harris explains to a group of primary school-age children before prompting them, as an exercise, to yell "Go away!"
(17) Africans yelled at the police, "Cowards" and "Kill the white men."
(18) Two elderly men yell angrily from the window of a car with posters of the president-elect, Abd el-Fatah al-Sisi, plastered all over it.
(19) "What the hell," the old man yelled over the motor.
(20) One teacher, who was hiding in a closet in the math lab, heard Thorne yell, "Put the gun down!"