plug
IPA: pɫˈʌg
noun
- (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
- (loosely) An electric socket: wall plug.
- Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
- (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
- (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
- (US, slang) A worthless horse.
- (dated) Any worn-out or useless article.
- (dated, slang) A book that fails to sell.
- (construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
- (slang) A promotion (act of promoting) a product (such as a book, film or play) or other thing (concept, etc), for example during an interview or a commercial.
- (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
- (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
- (jewelry) A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
- (slang) A drug dealer.
- A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
- (aviation) A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.
verb
- (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
- (transitive) To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
- (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.
- (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a bullet.
- (transitive, slang) To have sex with, penetrate sexually.
- (transitive, slang) To ingest a drug rectally
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Examples of "plug" in Sentences
- He pulled the plug from the fridge.
- The C13 is the plug, not the socket.
- The tangent is connected to the plug.
- The plug is often near the mailboxes.
- Schools pull plug on swimming lessons.
- The plug is pink and the socket is pink.
- The displays below use the Chime plug in.
- The Japanese plug is the same as the American plug.
- The canister is secured to the barrel of the spark plug.
- It arrives with an American flat-pin plug, which is useless here.
- I don't know what a plug is and I don't know what a bilge pump is.
- Plug the other end of the cable into the green connector on the subwoofer.
- Normally, a plug is always in place here, because this is an areawhere sewer gases dwell.
- Now I no longer chuckle when I see the term plug and play, because with Linux, that phrase really does describe how easy it is.
- To ensure safety BS 1363 requires that there be at least 9. 5mm from any part of the pins to the periphery of the plug, the minimum width of the plug is therefore the thickness of the pin (4mm) plus 2x 9. 5mm, that is 2.3 cm in total, clearly as the folding plug is claimed to be only 1 cm it cannot possibly meet the standard.
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