Fruit vs. Lug — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fruit and Lug
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Fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds.
Lug
A handle or projection used as a hold or support.
Fruit
The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.
Lug
A lug nut.
Fruit
An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of such a structure.
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Lug
(Nautical) A lugsail.
Fruit
A part or an amount of such a plant product, served as food
Fruit for dessert.
Lug
A projecting part of a larger piece that helps to provide traction, as on a tire or the sole of a boot.
Fruit
The fertile, often spore-bearing structure of a plant that does not bear seeds.
Lug
A copper or brass fitting to which electrical wires can be soldered or otherwise connected.
Fruit
A plant crop or product
The fruits of the earth.
Lug
(Slang) A clumsy fool; a blockhead.
Fruit
Result; outcome
The fruit of their labor.
Lug
The act of lugging.
Fruit
Offspring; progeny.
Lug
Something lugged.
Fruit
A fruity aroma or flavor in a wine.
Lug
A box for shipping fruit or vegetables.
Fruit
Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a gay man.
Lug
The ancient Celtic god of artisanship and warriors. He was said to be the father of Cuchulain.
Fruit
To produce or cause to produce fruit.
Lug
To drag or haul (an object) laboriously.
Fruit
In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals.
Lug
To pull or drag with short jerks.
Fruit
Specifically, a sweet and/or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit see next sense, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish petioles of rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.}}
Lug
To cause (an engine, for example) to run poorly or hesitate
If you drive too slowly in third gear, you'll lug the engine.
Fruit
(botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
Lug
To pull something with difficulty; tug.
Fruit
The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
Lug
To move along by jerks or as if under a heavy burden.
Fruit
The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
Lug
To run poorly or hesitate because of strain. Used of an engine
The motor lugs on hills.
Fruit
An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
Lug
The act of hauling or dragging.
A hard lug
Fruit
(attributive) Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; of living things producing or consuming fruit.
Fresh-squeezed fruit juice
A fruit salad
An artificial fruit flavor
A fruit tree
Lug
That which is hauled or dragged.
The pack is a heavy lug.
Fruit
A homosexual man; an effeminate man.
Lug
Anything that moves slowly.
Fruit
(archaic) Offspring from a sexual union.
The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
Lug
A lug nut.
Fruit
(informal) A crazy person.
Lug
(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.
Fruit
To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.
Lug
A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
Fruit
Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; - commonly used in the plural.
Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in thefruits thereof.
Lug
A large, clumsy, awkward man; a fool.
Fruit
The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.
Lug
(UK) An ear or ear lobe.
While shaving, the poor sod had a fit and cut part of a lug off.
Fruit
The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.
Lug
A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
Fruit
The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.
Lug
(slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.
They put the lug on him at the courthouse.
Fruit
The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown.
Lug
A lugworm.
Fruit
That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance.
The fruit of rashness.
What I obtained was the fruit of no bargain.
They shall eat the fruit of their doings.
The fruits of this education became visible.
Lug
(informal) A pull or drag on a cigarette.
Fruit
To bear fruit.
Lug
A rod or pole.
Fruit
The ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
Lug
A measure of length equal to 2 feet.
Fruit
The consequence of some effort or action;
He lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies
Lug
(nautical) A lugsail.
Fruit
An amount of a product
Lug
(harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.Harness pendant suspension mount featuring two lugs (at the bottom). The pendant has one lug (also named loop), placed in the gap between the two lugs of the hanger.
Fruit
Cause to bear fruit
Lug
A loop (or protuberance) found on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge.
Fruit
Bear fruit;
The trees fruited early this year
Lug
A ridge or other protuberance on the surface of a body to increase traction or provide a hold for holding and moving it.
Lug
To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
Why do you always lug around so many books?
Lug
(transitive) To run at too slow a speed.
When driving up a hill, choose a lower gear so you don't lug the engine.
Lug
To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
Lug
To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.
Lug
The ear, or its lobe.
Lug
That which projects like an ear, esp. that by which anything is supported, carried, or grasped, or to which a support is fastened; an ear; as, the lugs of a kettle; the lugs of a founder's flask; the lug (handle) of a jug.
Lug
A projecting piece to which anything, as a rod, is attached, or against which anything, as a wedge or key, bears, or through which a bolt passes, etc.
Lug
The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
Lug
The lugworm.
Lug
A man; sometimes implying clumsiness.
Lug
The act of lugging; as, a hard lug; that which is lugged; as, the pack is a heavy lug.
Lug
Anything which moves slowly.
Lug
A rod or pole.
Lug
A measure of length, being 16½ feet; a rod, pole, or perch.
Lug
To pull with force; to haul; to drag along; to carry with difficulty, as something heavy or cumbersome.
They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share.
Lug
To move slowly and heavily.
Lug
Ancient Celtic god
Lug
A sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast
Lug
A projecting piece that is used to lift or support or turn something
Lug
Marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait
Lug
Carry with difficulty;
You'll have to lug this suitcase
Lug
Obstruct;
My nose is all stuffed
Her arteries are blocked
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