The difference between Bag and Dog

When used as nouns, bag means a flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc, whereas dog means a mammal, canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.

When used as verbs, bag means to put into a bag, whereas dog means to pursue with the intent to catch.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bag and Dog

  1. Bag as a noun:

    A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.

  2. Bag as a noun (informal):

    A handbag

  3. Bag as a noun:

    A suitcase.

  4. Bag as a noun:

    A schoolbag, especially a backpack.

  5. Bag as a noun (slang):

    One's preference.

    Examples:

    "Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music."

  6. Bag as a noun (derogatory):

    An ugly woman.

  7. Bag as a noun (baseball):

    The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

    Examples:

    "The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head."

  8. Bag as a noun (baseball):

    First, second, or third base.

    Examples:

    "He headed back to the bag."

  9. Bag as a noun (preceded by "the"):

    A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.

  10. Bag as a noun (mathematics):

    A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

    Examples:

    "If one has a [[bag]] of three apples and the letter 'a' is taken to denote 'apple', then such [[bag]] could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Note that in an ordinary context, when talking about a [[bag]] of apples, one does not care about identifying the individual apples, although one might be interested in distinguishing apples by species, for example, letting 'r' denote 'red apple' and 'g' denote 'green apple', then a [[bag]] of three red apples and two green apples could be denoted as {r,r,r,g,g}."

  11. Bag as a noun:

    A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.

    Examples:

    "the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents"

    "the bag of a cow"

  12. Bag as a noun:

    A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.

  13. Bag as a noun:

    The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.

  14. Bag as a noun (slang, vulgar):

    A scrotum.

  15. Bag as a noun (UK):

    A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.

  16. Bag as a noun (mostly, in the plural):

    A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.

  1. Bag as a verb:

    To put into a bag.

  2. Bag as a verb (informal):

    To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.

    Examples:

    "We bagged three deer yesterday."

  3. Bag as a verb:

    To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.

  4. Bag as a verb (transitive):

    To furnish or load with a bag.

  5. Bag as a verb (slang, African American Vernacular):

    To bring a woman one met on the street with one.

  6. Bag as a verb (slang, African American Vernacular):

    To laugh uncontrollably.

  7. Bag as a verb (Australia, slang):

    To criticise sarcastically.

  8. Bag as a verb (medicine):

    To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.

  9. Bag as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To swell or hang down like a full bag.

    Examples:

    "The skin bags from containing morbid matter."

    "The brisk wind bagged the sails."

  10. Bag as a verb:

    To hang like an empty bag.

    Examples:

    "His trousers bag at the knees."

  11. Bag as a verb (nautical, intransitive):

    To drop away from the correct course.

  12. Bag as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To swell with arrogance.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Chaucer"

  13. Bag as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To become pregnant.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Warner. (Alb. Eng.)"

  1. Dog as a noun:

    A mammal, Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.

    Examples:

    "The dog barked all night long."

  2. Dog as a noun:

    A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch (often attributive).

  3. Dog as a noun (slang, derogatory):

    A dull, unattractive girl or woman.

    Examples:

    "She’s a real dog."

  4. Dog as a noun (slang):

    A man (derived from definition 2).

    Examples:

    "You lucky dog!"

    "He's a silly dog."

  5. Dog as a noun (slang, derogatory):

    A coward.

    Examples:

    "Come back and fight, you dogs!"

  6. Dog as a noun (derogatory):

    Someone who is morally reprehensible.

    Examples:

    "You dirty dog."

  7. Dog as a noun (slang):

    A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).

  8. Dog as a noun:

    Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.

  9. Dog as a noun:

    A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass)

  10. Dog as a noun:

    A metal support for logs in a fireplace.

    Examples:

    "The dogs were too hot to touch."

  11. Dog as a noun (cartomancy):

    The eighteenth Lenormand card.

  12. Dog as a noun:

    A hot dog.

  13. Dog as a noun (poker, _, slang):

    Underdog.

  14. Dog as a noun (slang, almost always, _, in the plural):

    Foot.

    Examples:

    "uxi My dogs are barking! My feet hurt!"

  15. Dog as a noun (Cockney rhyming slang):

    (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.

    Examples:

    "My dog is dead. My mobile-phone battery has run out of charge and is no longer able to function."

  16. Dog as a noun:

    One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.

  1. Dog as a verb (transitive):

    To pursue with the intent to catch.

  2. Dog as a verb (transitive):

    To follow in an annoying or harassing way.

    Examples:

    "The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step."

  3. Dog as a verb (transitive, nautical):

    To fasten a hatch securely.

    Examples:

    "It is very important to dog down these hatches..."

  4. Dog as a verb (intransitive, emerging usage in, _, British):

    To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.

    Examples:

    "I admit that I like to dog at my local country park."

  5. Dog as a verb (intransitive, transitive):

    To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.

    Examples:

    "A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it."

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