different between receptacle vs pug

English

Etymology

From Middle English receptacle, from Anglo-Norman receptacle and Middle French receptacle (“organ containing a fluid; gathering place; water basin”) (modern French réceptacle), from Latin recept?culum (“animal enclosure, container, place of refuge, receptacle, repository, reservoir, shelter”), from recept?re (“to harbour, to receive, to shelter”) or recept? (“I receive back or again, I recover”), frequentative of recipi? (“I receive; I hold back, I reserve”) (from re- (“back, again”) + capi? (“I hold”)) + -culum (suffix forming nouns from verbs, particularly nouns representing tools and instruments); cognate with Italian recettaculo, ricettaculo, Portuguese receptáculo, Spanish receptáculo.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???s?p.t?.kl?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???s?p.t?.k(?)l/, /?i-/
• Hyphenation: re?cep?ta?cle

Noun

receptacle (plural receptacles)

1. A container.
   • 1818, anonymous [Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley], chapter III, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. In Three Volumes, London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, Finsbury Square, OCLC 682152368; republished as Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; no. IX), rev. and corr. edition, London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street; Bell & Bradfute Edinburgh; J. Cumming, Dublin, 1839, OCLC 316824153, page 38:

     Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.
2. (botany) The part of the flower stalk (peduncle or pedicel) to which the floral parts are attached; a thalamus, a torus.
   1. In the Asteraceae (aster or sunflower family), the end of the peduncle to which all of the florets of the flower head are attached.
3. (phycology) A structure at the end of a branch of an alga containing conceptacles (reproductive organs).
4. (zoology) An organ that receives and holds a secretion.
5. (electricity, US) A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug (typically by receiving the plug's prongs) to supply portable appliances or equipment.

Synonyms

• (botany): thalamus, torus
• See also Thesaurus:container

Translations

References

Further reading

• receptacle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• receptacle (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Alternative forms

• receptakel

Etymology

From Middle French receptacle and Anglo-Norman receptacle, from Latin recept?culum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?s?pt?a?k?l/, /r?s?pt?a?kl?/

Noun

receptacle (plural receptacles)

1. receptacle, container
2. (rare) place of refuge

Descendants

• English: receptacle

References

• “recept?cle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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Noun

pug (plural pugs)

1. A small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail. [from the 18th c]

   Synonyms: Chinese pug, Dutch bulldog, Dutch mastiff, mini mastiff, mops, carlin, pugdog

2. A bargeman. [from the 16th c]
3. (obsolete) chaff; the refuse of grain

   • rotten chaffe or pugs, and such like plain mullock

4. Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.

Derived terms

• pug nose
• pug-nosed
• pug-ugly

Translations

Etymology 2

Corruption of puck, from Old English p?ca (“goblin, demon”). Compare Icelandic púki (“demon”) and Welsh pwca (“hobgoblin”).

Noun

pug (plural pugs)

1. (obsolete) An elf or hobgoblin.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

2. An upper servant in a great house. [from the 19th c]
3. A harlot; a prostitute. [circa 1600]

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cotgrave to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (mythological creature): puck, goblin, fairy

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of pugilist, from Latin pugil.

Noun

pug (plural pugs)

1. (informal) One who fights with fists; a boxer.
   • 1988, Ken Blady, The Jewish Boxers Hall of Fame (page 226)

     He never trained for his characters either: with his slurred speech and disfigured mug he usually portrayed a punch-drunk ex-pug or comic tough guy, roles in which he was a natural.

Etymology 4

Compare German pucken (“to thump, beat”).

Noun

pug (countable and uncountable, plural pugs)

1. Any compressed clay-like material mixed and worked into a soft, plastic condition for making bricks, pottery or for paving. (Also pug soil)
2. A pug mill.

Verb

pug (third-person singular simple present pugs, present participle pugging, simple past and past participle pugged)

1. (transitive) To mix and stir when wet.

   to pug clay for bricks or pottery

2. (transitive) To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound.

Etymology 5

From Hindi ?? (pag, “step, foot”), related to Sanskrit ???? (padya, “foot”) and Greek ???? (pódi, “foot”).

Noun

pug (plural pugs)

1. The pawprint or footprint of an animal

Synonyms

• pugmark

Etymology 6

Probably related to puck.

Noun

pug (plural pugs)

1. (obsolete) A term of endearment. [from the 16th c]

Anagrams

• GPU, gup

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pu?]

Noun

pug (nominative plural pugs)

1. slaughter, slaughtering
2. butchery, butchering

Declension

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