plug

[Plug]

A plug is something that blocks a hole, particularly one that water normally flows through. For some reason, it also means to promote something. If you plug your new book, you sneak it into every conversation.

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Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.

Noun
an old or over-worked horse

Noun
an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire

Noun
blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly

Noun
an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection

Noun
electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark

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Noun
blatant or sensational promotion

Noun
a wad of something chewable as tobacco

Verb
persist in working hard; "Students must plug away at this problem"

Verb
make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote

Verb
deliver a quick blow to; "he punched me in the stomach"

Verb
fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug; "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak"

n.
Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.

n.
A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.

n.
A high, tapering silk hat.

n.
A worthless horse.

n.
A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.

v. t.
To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

Plug

Plug , n. [Akin to D. plug, G. pflock, Dan. pl'94k, plug, Sw. plugg; cf. W. ploc.] 1. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple. 2. A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco. [U. S.] 3. A high, tapering silk hat. [Slang, U.S.] 4. A worthless horse. [Slang, U.S.] 5. (Building) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails. Fire plug, a street hydrant to which hose may be attached. [U. S.] -- Hawse plug (Naut.), a plug to stop a hawse hole. -- Plug and feather. (Stone Working) See Feather, n., 7. -- Plug centerbit, a centerbit ending in a small cylinder instead of a point, so as to follow and enlarge a hole previously made, or to form a counterbore around it. -- Plug rod (Steam Eng.) , a rod attached to the beam for working the valves, as in the Cornish engine. -- Plug valve (Mech.), a tapering valve, which turns in a case like the plug of a faucet.

Plug

Plug , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plugged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Plugging .] To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.

To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

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Usage Examples

I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.

Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.