What's the difference between rug and shag?

Rug


Definition:

  • (a.) A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for garments.
  • (a.) A piece of thick, nappy fabric, commonly made of wool, -- used for various purposes, as for covering and ornamenting part of a bare floor, for hanging in a doorway as a potiere, for protecting a portion of carpet, for a wrap to protect the legs from cold, etc.
  • (a.) A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
  • (v. t.) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
  • (2) Steps wind down a rugged rock face to a bedroom, while light floods in from round skylights in the domed ceiling above.
  • (3) The Turner prize-winning artist has turned his sights on the survivalist and his exceptionally rugged version of masculinity, arguing that it isn’t fit for the 21st century.
  • (4) Many survivors use it to get the accommodations needed to stay in school, while others used it to hold their institutions accountable for sweeping sexual assault under the rug.” More than two dozen states are suing the Obama administration over its guidance on transgender students in an effort that is overwhelmingly led by Republican secretaries of state.
  • (5) As the president of Russia's Kalmykia republic from 1993 to 2010, Ilyumzhinov undoubtedly has close ties to the Kremlin, and a woven rug featuring Putin's face hangs in his office.
  • (6) Also, a wildfire in a rugged area near the Canadian border chased hundreds of people from their homes and burned 10 to 12 structures, and a blaze north-east of Colville scorched almost five square miles and forced evacuations at campgrounds in the area.
  • (7) Allergenic proteins were extracted from one silk batch that was imported to be used as filling material for bed mattresses and rugs.
  • (8) And reporting by the Observer reveals the extent to which al-Qaida has integrated itself with powerful tribes that control large swaths of Yemen's rugged east and parts of its south.
  • (9) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
  • (10) Laminin and its E1-4 and E8 fragments are able to activate the ecto-5'-nucleotidase activity of both BCS-TC2 and Rugli cells.
  • (11) Pictures of the young Depardieu in a good light suggest a rugged, brooding, if not classically good-looking man with a squared chin and mop of blonde hair.
  • (12) In the presence of glucose oxidase and trien this polymer forms rugged, cross-linked, electroactive films on the surface of electrodes, thereby eliminating the requirement for a membrane for containing the enzyme and redox couple.
  • (13) The tone was set in the second minute when Ben Westwood, Warrington's notoriously rugged forward, left the Wigan stand-off Blake Green on the ground needing lengthy treatment.
  • (14) The simple design and rugged construction permit the incorporation of the apparatus into many manual or personal computer controlled oxygen consumption systems.
  • (15) Both offer lodges and campsites, but keep in mind that only a very small fraction of these remote and rugged parks are accessible by road.
  • (16) "When a similar report was released in 2009, the Administration largely swept it under the rug.
  • (17) La Posada has undergone a $12m renovation, transforming it into a magical place with handmade Mexican tin and tile mirrors, six-foot cast iron tubs, hand woven Zapotec rugs, and hand-painted furniture and tile murals.
  • (18) These assays have proven to be accurate, precise, reproducible, and rugged during clinical sample analyses.
  • (19) And cutting support now would take demand out of the economy, pull the rug from under the recovery, and delay our return to sustained growth.
  • (20) Chelsea had laboured at times without him in that first period, Begovic denying them reward from an urgent opening and Stoke rugged and organised until self-destructing with half-time in sight.

Shag


Definition:

  • (n.) Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair.
  • (n.) A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.
  • (n.) A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.
  • (n.) Any species of cormorant.
  • (a.) Hairy; shaggy.
  • (v. t.) To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Because people didn't see me falling out of clubs or shagging in the alleys with different girls every week, they thought something was wrong with me.
  • (2) This is a guy whose last feature, Trash Humpers , was 80 minutes of old people shagging foliage.
  • (3) Voteman aims to get young people voting by slapping them around the chops, decapitating them, or simply hurling them into the voting booth like the shagging, lazy slackers they are.
  • (4) It's the difference between a quick shag and an all-night lovemaking session!"
  • (5) The movie was shot last year during a real spring break in St Petersburg, Florida, amid the kind of week-long teen chaos – motels on fire, pools filled with furniture, kids shagging in the street – that it takes a resort town a year to recover from.
  • (6) During Friday's hearing, White referred to an email she sent to a newspaper providing a tip about Nick Clegg's sex life, known as the "18 shags story" and said "it suggests something about her attitude".
  • (7) The relatively low activity of these enzymes is probably the main reason why the shag has been found to contain relatively high levels of dieldrin in ecological studies.
  • (8) "A shag", Ferdinand explained when asked what the gesture meant.
  • (9) I didn't look like I was supposed to because I'd been Barbarella and now I had this short, brown shag that became famous in Klute.
  • (10) You shagged your team-mate's missus, you're a cunt."
  • (11) A sports commentator was cut loose from his radio station this week for sending a tweet that read: "To all fellow women journalists: shag wisely, you could become the next first lady of France."
  • (12) We shouldn’t beat ourselves up about one-night stands or walks of shame.” The idea of your 20s as a carefree period before a woman starts her “real” life of monogamy and child-bearing is not a new one: see the end of John Cleland’s Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure , published in 1748, where 300 pages of masturbation, orgies and lesbianism are followed by a “tail-piece of morality”, and protagonist Fanny Hill explains that she is much happier now she’s put all that filthy shagging behind her.
  • (13) Scattering out around the goals and small pitches informal games are played in mixed groups as pretty much every kid here takes a turn to demonstrate their range of tricks, traps and flicks on that wondrous green shag.
  • (14) She also caused some offence in 2005 when she suggested on air, in the wake of revelations about John Prescott's extra-marital activities, that his nickname should be changed from "two jags" to "two shags".
  • (15) Women comedians are probably not looking for shags in any case; if they were, they probably couldn't say so.
  • (16) Avon: "If your mate just gives us the bird he was shagging - was she a bird in Buckingham Palace?"
  • (17) "You shagged your team-mate's missus, you're the cunt."
  • (18) However, "continuing dramas" can't all be about shagging and hotpot (brilliant though that sounds).
  • (19) Hatchet was subjected to virulent internet abuse, some fans at United games sang songs naming and abusing his victim and declaring that Evans would “shag who he wants”.
  • (20) Liver microsomes of the shag showed smaller than 8% of the epoxide hydrase activity and smaller than 14% of the hydroxylating capacity of liver microsomes from the rat.

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