What's the difference between mug and tug?

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.

Tug


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port.
  • (v. t.) To pull; to pluck.
  • (v. i.) To pull with great effort; to strain in labor; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream.
  • (v. i.) To labor; to strive; to struggle.
  • (n.) A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest called tug of war; a supreme effort.
  • (n.) A sort of vehicle, used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
  • (n.) A small, powerful steamboat used to tow vessels; -- called also steam tug, tugboat, and towboat.
  • (n.) A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
  • (n.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is patrolled for around six months of the year by a 35-year-old ocean-going tug which takes two days to cross the protected area.
  • (2) The broadcast featured panoramic shots of the hundreds of boats, tugs, cruisers and canoes sailing past the Houses of Parliament during the pageant staged as part of the national celebrations in June.
  • (3) The Guardian view on human rights in China: Liu Xiaobo is dying, free him | Editorial Read more Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer in May, the Nobel peace laureate is at the centre of a geopolitical tug-of-war with western governments urging China to show “humanity” by letting him travel overseas for treatment and Beijing accusing the world of meddling in its “domestic affairs”.
  • (4) With Robert Snodgrass having only 18 months remaining on his contract, the manager’s biggest battle looks certain to be a tug of war with the gifted Scotland winger’s assorted suitors.
  • (5) John Muir, a giant of the conservation movement, summed up the importance of bees to the human race when he said: “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” We harm them at our peril.
  • (6) We drive to the seafront, where two fishermen are toiling to the rear of the beach, turning cogs that wind a rope attached to their boat to tug it in from the sea over wooden planks.
  • (7) Three minutes later a dithering David Edgar allowed Callum Wilson to bully him out of possession before blatantly tugging his shirt.
  • (8) "The difference between me and the prime minister is …" – and here he went very strange, as if the tug of war in his synapses had caused permanent damage – "… when I lean across and say 'I love you, darling' I really mean it!"
  • (9) Under noncatalytic conditions, the fluorescence emission of TUG at 436 nm increased monotonically with Gal-Tase concentration, with a half-maximal response at approximately 4 microM.
  • (10) Whole nerve recordings from the posterior articular nerve revealed substantial activity from afferents in response to tugging on the ACL, although we could not differentiate receptors in the ACL from those in other periarticular tissues.
  • (11) Beneath this, there is the obnoxious notion that people owe their employer loyalty, gratitude and even love; tug your forelock and go "the extra mile" for an employer who may show you no loyalty and dump you as soon as you become old, pregnant or sick.
  • (12) The heartstrings were tugged still further before kick-off.
  • (13) It was a function of his immense enthusiasm and curiosity, but it was also, in its way, a literary playing out of the first principle of ecology: that everything is connected to everything else, or as John Muir put it, that "when one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world".
  • (14) He criticized the Obama administration, and said he would stay a staunch moderate despite the tug-of-war of Republican primaries.
  • (15) Howard could be a wild man – as we know from his later work – and you feel recklessness and revolution as a wind tugging at him.
  • (16) Ukraine's only safe solution is for the lethal tug of war between east and west to end.
  • (17) "It chugged down the middle of the river a couple of rod-lengths away from me like a tug boat.
  • (18) The former tug boat driver was working for a software firm in Houston when he was drafted into the operation.
  • (19) The capital exerts a huge cultural and political tug on Afghanistan .
  • (20) Writing last week in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the historian Andreas Wirsching likened Berlin's current dilemmas over Europe to those of Otto von Bismarck in the 19th century, suggesting the tug of war over the euro reflected a similar political dynamic that in the past had resulted in real wars.

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