(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.
Tum
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The DNA of tum- variant P35 was transfected into P815 cell line P1.HTR.
(2) Mutagen treatment of mouse P815 tumor cells produces tum- variants that are rejected by syngeneic mice because these variants express new surface antigens.
(3) We have isolated human and bovine cDNA clones that encode the homologs of the mouse tum- antigen P198.
(4) apparently not to be due to any mutation such as typ, tup, tmp, per or tum.
(5) The diversity of these antigens appears to be very large, like that of the tum- antigens.
(6) Immunization of rats with one C variant (C8) tum- cells did not protect them against either metastases or local growth of the implanted tumours.
(7) This antigenic pattern is similar to that found on teratocarcinoma tum- variants.
(8) Each of these "tum-" variants is rejected in syngeneic mice and stimulates the production of immune memory cells (self-protection).
(9) Mutagen treatment of P815 tumour cells produces tum- variants that are rejected by syngeneic mice because they express new transplantation antigens.
(10) The cells carrying the mutant alleles have impaired tumorigenicity compared with their progenitors due to in vivo induction of a cytotoxic T-cell response specific for tum- antigens.
(11) The drug susceptibility pattern of the strains revealed that there was no significant association of resistance between Tum and streptomycin or rifampicin or ethambutol or ethionamide or isoniazid.
(12) The sequence of this gene and that of two other tum- genes are totally unrelated with each other and with any sequence presently recorded in data banks.
(13) Our results suggest that the procedure of using a mutagen in order to generate tum- variants carrying new transplantation antigens may be generally applicable to cancer cells.
(14) Rumbling tums can be quietened at plenty of places to eat round the estate, until 5.30pm.
(15) Although tum+ clones grew in normal mice, immune mice were able to prevent the growth of tum+ clones with high levels of H-2 antigens.
(16) We have analyzed the effects of high doses of cyclophosphamide (Cy) on primary and secondary antitumor immune response against immunogenic (tum-) variants of Lewis lung carcinoma (3LL) treated in vitro with UV light.
(17) The tum- allele differs from its normal counterpart by a point mutation.
(18) Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) of Tumble Blook (TUM) and Japan Medical Science (JMS) stocks were compared with regard to susceptibility to Leptospira interrogans serovar copenhageni.
(19) The tum- clones are therefore unable to generate tumors in syngeneic mice because they elicit an immune rejection response.
(20) No H-2 antigens were found on the cell surface of the parental BL6 clones, whereas all tum- clones from the BL6T2 line expressed high levels of H-2 antigens.