Wrench vs Lug - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) A trick or artifice.
* c. 1210 , MS. Cotton Caligula A IX f.246
(obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery.
A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
(obsolete) A turn at an acute angle.
(archaic) A winch or windlass.
(obsolete) A screw.
A distorting change from the original meaning.
(US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
A violent emotional change caused by separation.
(physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
(obsolete) means; contrivance
(obsolete) To violently move in a turn or writhe.
To pull or twist violently.
(obsolete) To turn aside or deflect.
(obsolete) To slander.
(obsolete) To tighten with or as if with a winch.
To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
To distort from the original meaning.
(obsolete) To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion.
(intransitive, fencing, obsolete) To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away.
To rack with pain.
To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
To use the tool known as a wrench.
The act of hauling or dragging.
That which is hauled or dragged.
Anything that moves slowly.
A lug nut.
(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.
A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
A fool, a large man.
(UK) An ear or ear lobe.
A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
(slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.
(UK, dialect) A rod or pole.
(UK, dialect) A measure of length equal to 16½ feet.
* Spenser
(nautical) A lugsail.
(harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
A lugworm.
To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry.
* Collier
To run at too slow a speed.
(nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
Wrench is a related term of lug.
As a noun wrench
is (obsolete) a trick or artifice.As a verb wrench
is (obsolete) to violently move in a turn or writhe.As an initialism lug is
(computing) (linux) user group.wrench
English
(wikipedia wrench)Alternative forms
* ** wrenche * ** wrinche * ** wringeNoun
(wrenches)- Mon mai longe liues wene; / Ac ofte him liedh the wrench .
- With a wrench , which threw his victim back upon the bed as though hurled from a height, he turned and sprang at us.
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* (tool) spanner (UK, Australia)Derived terms
* adjustable wrench * socket wrench * monkey-wrench, monkey wrench, monkeywrench * pipe wrench * screw wrench * torque wrench * torsion wrench * tube wrench * dog bone wrenchVerb
(es)- With a surge of adrenaline, she wrenched the car door off and pulled out the injured man.
- Be careful not to wrench your ankle walking along those loose stones!
- The plumber wrenched the pipes until they came loose.
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* (Wrench)lug
English
Noun
(en noun)- a hard lug
- The pack is a heavy lug .
- (Ascham)
- They put the lug on him at the courthouse.
- (Wright)
- Eight lugs of ground.
Derived terms
* (lug nut) lug nut * (large man) big lug * (protruding support) launch lugVerb
- Why do you always lug around so many books?
- They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share.
- When driving up a hill, choose a lower gear so you don't lug the engine.