What's the difference between mug and muggy?

Mug


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, -- usually cylindrical and without a lip.
  • (n.) The face or mouth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effect of ipratropium bromide administered at two dosage levels, 40 and 80 mug, isoproterenol, 150 mug, and placebo using a metered dose inhaler was evaluated in ten adult patients with asthma in a double-blind, crossover study.
  • (2) The angiographic demonstration of veins was similarly improved by the 2 drugs, the effect of 60 mug.
  • (3) Two of them are vitamin K2-less (strains 30 and 73) and are supplemented by menadion natrium bisulfit at concentrations ranging from 0.2 to 10 mug per ml.
  • (4) Decreased levels of receptors for estradiol-17beta, progesterone, and prolactin were found in the tumors remaining after ovariectomy while treatment with the dose (24 mug) of RU 16117, efficient to inhibit tumor growth, has a similar inhibitory effect on the levels of estradiol-17beta and prolactin receptors.
  • (5) Over 90% of gram-negative bacilli, except Proteus spp., were inhibited by 3.12 mug of BB-K8 per ml.
  • (6) The MICs of the remaining anaerobes were 50 mug or less per ml.
  • (7) 6-OHDA administered intraventricularly in doses 200-500 mug caused temporary blockade of ovulation.
  • (8) Gamma rays and 2 low doses of bleomycin gave rise to typical reproductive death in generations 1 and 2 but 100 mug of the drug produced frequent interphase death.
  • (9) 5beta-Dihydrotestosterone was adminstered to mothers for 4 days from Day 12 to Day 15 of pregnancy (prenatal treatment) and to pups for 5 days of postnatal life (neonatal treatment) at daily doses of 1 mg and 200 mug, respectively.
  • (10) Like, I am well, well equipped for this thing.” For their one survival item each, Rogen brought a role of toilet paper, while Franco brought sunglasses and mugs continually for the camera, giving his best Spring Breakers faces while in the buff.
  • (11) 2, and the calf serum were 34 and 73, and 480 mug per mouse respectively.
  • (12) When histamine dihydrochloride (50 mg) was simultaneously injected with the hormone, the effect of small doses of oestradiol (0-0125--0-2 mug) was significantly increased.
  • (13) The detection limit is 0.2 mug PEBG and 0.5 mug p-OH PEBG per ml of serum or urine.
  • (14) TRH, 400 mug was injected prior to and after the medication.
  • (15) plus or minus 4.7) mug per g dry wt (p vs controls equals greater than 0.01).
  • (16) PGF2alpha (150 mug times 2) given on the day of surgery advanced lactogenesis 12 h and rats aborted on day 19.
  • (17) Injection of 1 mug carbachol into the third ventricle produced a small, variable increase in drinking.
  • (18) Acetylcholine (0.1-10 mug) produced a dose-dependent potentiation of oxotremorine tremor in contrast to the multiphasic effect it had on the accompanying hypothermia.
  • (19) Display of the whole pattern of female sexual behaviour was induced in male rats by treatment with 100 mug OB and 2 mg progesterone.
  • (20) Seven patients with reversible obstructive airways disease, who were unsatisfactorily relieved by conventional bronchodilating drugs, were admitted to a 1-year-long therapeutic trial with beclomethasone dipropionate aerosol, 400 mug a day.

Muggy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.
  • (superl.) Warm, damp, and close; as, muggy air, weather.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was a vivid green morning, the air muggy and sad.
  • (2) Willian is believed to have "held talks" with Chelsea, in which pleasantries about the muggy London weather, the comfort of his hotel room and the size of the number that will appear on his weekly pay-cheque were almost certainly discussed.
  • (3) "Bit of an education," she murmurs as they walk into the muggy heat.
  • (4) That Palace should still end up inflicting a second defeat in four matches for the champions thanks to Joel Ward’s winning goal, stabbed in after more good work by Bakary Sako, was both fair reward and a fair reflection of the poverty of Chelsea’s performance at a muggy, uncomfortably close Stamford Bridge.
  • (5) Ghostpoet's music is perfect for that atmosphere of muggy dread.
  • (6) While plying his trade in the cold, blustery conditions of Arbroath's Gayfield Park on Scotland's North Sea coast isn't exactly perfect preparation for the expected 90% humidity of Natal in July, Deuchar has played in similarly muggy climates during his time with Real Salt Lake in the US and was an integral part in helping the fledgling club to their first Major League Soccer play-off appearance in 2008, earning him the nickname Doctor Goals.
  • (7) In these paintings, imitations of cave drawing (without the dexterity of the real thing) mix with muggy abstractions and Jackson Pollock-like paint splashes.
  • (8) Romelu Lukaku continued to wage his personal crusade against West Ham, scoring on his seventh successive appearance against the Hammers on a muggy, wet afternoon at a subdued Upton Park.
  • (9) One can only pity the actors who turned out for filming at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral on Saturday in full Cybermen costume, as temperatures hit a muggy 28C.
  • (10) For an afternoon in the muggy Swiss sun, and for 45 minutes on the pitch, Liverpool turned Basel red.
  • (11) On a muggy, misty December morning it took more like 50 minutes as traffic crawled along the coast road past joggers, cyclists and Cariocas playing football and volleyball on the beach.
  • (12) The pitch-side air was muggy but this did not stop Charlton Athletic’s Johan Gudmundsson enjoying a flying start, rattling Almer’s right-post with a peach of a 25-yarder virtually from kick-off.
  • (13) At Quai des Celestins, near Place de la Bastille, on a Friday morning, the traffic speeding along the riverside highway flanking the muggy grey Seine is relentless.
  • (14) Stepping on to a red carpet at the Royal Malaysian Air Base, Obama was whisked by limousine to Kuala Lumpur's Parliament Square, where a 21-gun salute rang out as Malaysia's king and prime minister greeted Obama under muggy skies and a yellow awning.
  • (15) Inside, the windows were misted up and the air was dank and muggy.
  • (16) It’s Valentine’s Day, a muggy Saturday afternoon, and a group calling itself Resistant Citizen is staging a rare anti-coup protest in the middle of the Siam Square shopping district.

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