different between barrel vs jug

English

Etymology

From Middle English barel, from Anglo-Norman baril, Old French baril, bareil (“barrel”), of uncertain origin. An attempt to link baril to Old French barre (“bar, bolt”) (compare Medieval Latin barra (“bar, rod”)) via assumed Vulgar Latin *barr?culum meets the phonological requirement, but fails to connect the word semantically. The alternate connection to Frankish *baril, *beril or Gothic ???????????????????????? (b?rils, “container for transport”), from Proto-Germanic *barilaz (“barrel, jug, container”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er-, *b?r?- (“to carry, transport”), is more plausible as it connects not only the form of the word but also the sense; equivalent to bear +? -le. Compare also Old High German biril (“jug, large pot”), Luxembourgish Bärel, Bierel (“jug, pot”), Old Norse berill (“barrel for liquids”), Old English byrla (“barrel of a horse, trunk, body”). More at bear.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bæ??l/, [?bæ???]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bæ??l/, [?bæ???], /?b????l/, [?b?????]
• (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Rhymes: -æ??l

Noun

barrel (plural barrels)

1. (countable) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.

2. The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
3. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case

4. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
5. (archaic) A tube.
6. (zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.
7. (music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
8. (surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
9. (US, specifically New England) A waste receptacle.

10. The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
11. (obsolete) A jar.
12. (biology) Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.
13. (baseball) A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:barrel.

Synonyms

• (round vessel): cask, tun

Coordinate terms

• (round vessel): keg, vat

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

barrel (third-person singular simple present barrels, present participle barrelling or barreling, simple past and past participle barrelled or barreled)

1. (transitive) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
2. (intransitive) To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.

   He came barrelling around the corner and I almost hit him.

   • Snow shattered and spilled down the slope. Within seconds, the avalanche was the size of more than a thousand cars barreling down the mountain and weighed millions of pounds.

Translations

See also

• cooper

French

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.??l/

Noun

barrel m (plural barrels)

1. Alternative form of baril

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?g, IPA^(key): /d????/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English jugge, iugge, of uncertain origin. Possibly a variant of Middle English jubbe, jobbe, iubbe, geobbe, itself of unknown origin; or perhaps continuing (in altered form) Old English ??ac (“pitcher; jug”). Compare also jug (“a low woman, maidservant”), from Jug, familiar form of Joanna.

Noun

jug (countable and uncountable, plural jugs)

1. A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top.
2. The amount that a jug can hold.
3. (slang) Jail.
   • 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda

     'I'm telling you trade secrets,' the father said, 'So don't you go talking about this to anyone else. You don't want me put in jug do you?'

   • 1998, John Gunn, Dear Descendants: Recollections for a Gunn Family History 1945-1957 (page 19)

     I was 'counsel for the defence', or 'prisoner's friend'. My chap had deserted for nearly two years and spent six months in a civvy jug. With papers under my arm and serious countenance I visited him in his cell day after day, […]

4. (vulgar, slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breasts.
5. (New Zealand) A kettle.
6. (CB radio slang, chiefly in the plural) A kind of large, high-powered vacuum tube.
   • 2001, 73 Amateur Radio Today (issues 482-493, page 8)

     […] as shown in the August 2000 issue, using a pair of my favorite jugs, 807s.

7. (climbing) A hold large enough for both hands

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• jug on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

jug (third-person singular simple present jugs, present participle jugging, simple past and past participle jugged)

1. (transitive) To stew in an earthenware jug etc.

   jugged hare

2. (transitive, slang) To put into jail.
3. (intransitive) To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
4. (intransitive, of quails or partridges) To nestle or collect together in a covey.

Translations

Etymology 2

Blend of Jack Russell +? pug

Noun

jug (plural jugs)

1. A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug.
   • 2013, Lost & Found: True tales of love and rescue from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, Penguin Group:

     When the dog’s owners returned with their shopping, I asked what the little dog was. She was a Jug, a Jack Russell-Pug cross. We found out lots about this crossbreed, thought long and hard, and decided a Jug and a Spitz could work really well together.

   • 2014, Alan Kenworthy, Jugs: Buying, Caring For, Grooming, Health, Training and Understanding Your Jug Dog or Puppy, Feel Happy Limited
   • 2015, George Hoppendale, Jugs: Jug Dog Complete Owners Manual - Jug book for care, costs, feeding, grooming, health and training, Internet Marketing Business
   • 2018, Cheryl Murphy, Dogs just wanna have FUN!, Veloce Publishing, page 110:

     Stanley ¶ Jug (Jack Russell/Pug cross); 18 months old; keeps fit chasing his ball or frisbee, but would rather be laid on his back, snoring

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Slavic *jùg? (“south (wind)”) (cf. South Slavic Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian jug (“south”)).

Noun

jug m (indefinite plural -, definite singular jugu, definite plural -)

1. south

Declension

Antonyms

• veri

Derived terms

• jugor

See also

• lindje
• perëndim
• jugë

References

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin jugum, iugum, from Proto-Italic *jugom, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Noun

jug n (plural juguri)

1. yoke

Declension

Related terms

• înjuga
• jugar
• jugastru
• dejuga

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *jug?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jû?/

Noun

j?g m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. south

Declension

Antonyms

• (south): s?ver / sj?ver

Related terms

• Jugoslavija
• južni

Descendants

• ? Albanian: jug

See also

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *jug?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jú?k/, /júk/

Noun

j?g or j?g m inan

1. south

Inflection

Derived terms

• Jugoslávija
• júžen
• júžina

Further reading

• “jug”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran