different between lug vs convey

English

Etymology

Probably from Old Norse (compare Swedish lugga, Norwegian lugge). Noun is via Scots lugge, probably from Old Norse (compare Norwegian and Swedish lugg). Probably related to slug (“lazy, slow-moving”), which is from similar Scandinavian sources.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: l?g, IPA^(key): /l??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

lug (plural lugs)

1. The act of hauling or dragging.

2. That which is hauled or dragged.

3. Anything that moves slowly.

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4. A lug nut.

   Synonym: lug nut

5. (electricity) A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
6. A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
7. A fool, a large man.

   Synonym: big lug

8. (Britain) An ear or ear lobe.

9. A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
10. (slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.

11. (Britain, dialect) A rod or pole.

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12. (Britain, archaic, dialect) A measure of length equal to 16+¹?₂ feet.

    Synonym: rod

13. (nautical) A lugsail.
14. (harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
15. A loop (or protuberance) found on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge.
16. A ridge or other protuberance on the surface of a body to increase traction or provide a hold for holding and moving it.
17. A lugworm.

Derived terms

• (protruding support): launch lug

Translations

Verb

lug (third-person singular simple present lugs, present participle lugging, simple past and past participle lugged)

1. (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
   • 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:

     As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.

   • c. 1700 Jeremy Collier, A Thought

     They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share.

2. (transitive) To run at too slow a speed.

3. (transitive, nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
4. (intransitive, horse-racing) To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.

Derived terms

• luggage

Translations

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [3]

Anagrams

• Gul

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lucht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lœ?/

Noun

lug (uncountable, diminutive luggie)

1. air

Usage notes

The plural form of lug is lugte, but it exists only in literary texts and is otherwise never used.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *lug(?), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leuK- (“to gulp/drink (down), swallow”). Cognate to Lithuanian li?gas (“morass”), Old Norse slok (“trough, spillway”), Middle High German sl?ch (“gulf, abyss”).

Noun

lug m (indefinite plural lugje, definite singular lugu, definite plural lugjet)

1. trough, (water) channel, spillway
2. groove (especially in trees)
3. valley (between mountains or hills through which a river or creek flows)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lug m (genitive singular luga, nominative plural luganna)

1. (mechanics) lug

Declension

Derived terms

• lug seoil (“lugsail”)

Further reading

• "lug" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “lug” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Livonian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish luku.

Noun

lug

1. number

Primitive Irish

Romanization

lug

1. Romanization of ???

Scanian

Etymology

From Old Norse lok.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l????]

Noun

lug n

1. weed, unwanted plant

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *l?g?.

Noun

l?g m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. small forest, grove

   Synonyms: šumica, gaj

2. swamp forest

Declension

Further reading

• “lug” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Etymology 2

From Middle High German louge, from Proto-Germanic *laug? ("soap, lye").

Noun

l?g m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. ash (fire residue)
2. lye

Declension

Further reading

• “lug” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Etymology

From Middle High German louge, from Proto-Germanic *laug? ("soap, lye").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lù?k/, /lú?k/

Noun

l?g m inan

1. lye

Inflection

Further reading

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

Somali

Noun

lug ?

1. leg

Yola

Noun

lug

1. Alternative form of lhug

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French conveier (French French convoyer), from Vulgar Latin *convio, from Classical Latin via (“way”). Compare convoy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?ve?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Verb

convey (third-person singular simple present conveys, present participle conveying, simple past and past participle conveyed)

1. To move (something) from one place to another.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Kings 5:8-9,^[1]

     […] I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there […]

   • 1858, Henry Gray, London: John W. Parker & Son, “Female Organs of Generation,” p. 688,^[2]

     The Fallopian Tubes, or oviducts, convey the ova from the ovaries to the cavity of the uterus.
2. (dated) To take or carry (someone) from one place to another.
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II, Scene 1,^[3]

     Convey me to my bed, then to my grave:

     Love they to live that love and honour have.

   • 1717, Samuel Croxall (translator), Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Book the Sixth, p. 200,^[4]

     […] the false Tyrant seiz’d the Princely Maid,

     And to a Lodge in distant Woods convey’d;

   • 1817, Jane Austen, Persuasion, Chapter 19,^[5]

     It began to rain, not much, but enough to make shelter desirable for women, and quite enough to make it very desirable for Miss Elliot to have the advantage of being conveyed home in Lady Dalrymple’s carriage, which was seen waiting at a little distance […]

3. To communicate; to make known; to portray.
   • 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, Book III, Chapter 9, p. 232,^[6]

     To make Words serviceable to the end of Communication is necessary […] that they excite, in the Hearer, exactly the same Idea they stand for, in the Mind of the Speaker: Without this, Men fill one another’s Heads with noise and sounds; but convey not thereby their Thoughts, and lay not before one another their Ideas, which is the end of Discourse and Language.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 2, Book 7, Chapter 6, p. 27,^[7]

     This excellent Method of conveying a Falshood with the Heart only, without making the Tongue guilty of an Untruth, by the Means of Equivocation and Imposture, hath quieted the Conscience of many a notable Deceiver […]

   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter 3,^[8]

     I am afraid I cannot convey the peculiar sensations of time travelling.

   • 1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Chapter 1,^[9]

     To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled, the expedition were bound to take place, and the wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and years it seemed, was, after a night’s darkness and a day’s sail, within touch.

4. (law) To transfer legal rights (to).

   He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland, Dublin, The Hibernia Press, 1809, p. 42,^[10]

     […] before his breaking forth into open rebellion, [the Earle of Desmond] had conveyed secretly all his lands to feoffees of trust, in hope to have cut off her Maiestie from the escheate of his lands.

5. (obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
   • 1557, uncredited translator, A Mery Dialogue by Erasmus, London: Antony Kytson,^[11]

     I shall so conuey my matters, that he shall dysclose all together hym selfe, what busynesse is betwene you […]

   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 2,^[12]

     I will seek him, sir, presently; convey the business as I shall find means, and acquaint you withal.

6. (obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
   • 1592, Robert Greene, A Disputation betweene a Hee Conny-Catcher and a Shee Conny-Catcher, London: T. Gubbin,

     Suppose you are good at the lift, who be more cunning then we women, in that we are more trusted, for they little suspect vs, and we haue as close conueyance as you men, though you haue Cloakes, we haue skirts of gownes, handbaskets, the crownes of our hattes, our plackardes, and for a need, false bagges vnder our smockes, wherein we can conuey more closely then you.

Synonyms

• (to move something from one place to another): carry, transport
• (to take someone from one place to another): accompany, conduct (archaic), escort
• (to communicate a message): express, send, relay

Derived terms

Related terms

• convoy

Translations