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What (who) is plug - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Plugged; Plugs; Plug (disambiguation)
plug
(plugs, plugging, plugged)
1.
A plug on a piece of electrical equipment is a small plastic object with two or three metal pins which fit into the holes of an electric socket and connects the equipment to the electricity supply.
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2.
A plug is an electric socket. (INFORMAL)
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3.
A plug is a thick, circular piece of rubber or plastic that you use to block the hole in a bath or sink when it is filled with water.
She put the plug in the sink and filled it with cold water.
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A plug is a small, round piece of wood, plastic, or wax which is used to block holes.
A plug had been inserted in the drill hole.
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5.
If you plug a hole, you block it with something.
Crews are working to plug a major oil leak.
VERB: V n
6.
If someone plugs a commercial product, especially a book or a film, they praise it in order to encourage people to buy it or see it because they have an interest in it doing well.
We did not want people on the show who are purely interested in plugging a book or film.
= promote
VERB: V n
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Plug is also a noun.
Let's do this show tonight and it'll be a great plug, a great promotion.
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If someone in a position of power pulls the plug on a project or on someone's activities, they use their power to stop them continuing.
The banks have the power to pull the plug on the project.
PHRASE: V inflects, usu PHR on n
plug
I
n.
electrical fitting
1) to insert, put a plug into a socket
2) a plug fits into a socket
device carrying an electric current
3) a spark (AE), sparking (BE) plug
word of praise
(colloq.)
4) to put in a plug for
misc.
(colloq.) (esp. AE)
5) to pull the plug ('to cut off a life-support system'); to pull the plug on smt. ('to put an end to smt.')
II
v. (d; intr., tr.) to plug into (the lamp plug s into this receptacle)
plug
n.
1.
Stopple, stopper.
2.
Chew, quid.
Wikipedia
Plug
Plug, PLUG, plugs, or plugged may refer to:
- Plug (accounting), an unsupported adjustment to an accounting record
- Plug (fishing), a family of fishing lures
- Plug (horticulture), a planting technique
- Plug (jewellery), a type of jewellery worn in stretched piercings
- Plug (sanitation), a stopper for a drainage outlet
- Butt plug, a sex toy that is inserted into the rectum
- Core plug, used to fill the casting holes on engines
- Earplug for ear protection
- Fusible plug, a safety device in steam boilers
- Hair plug, hair that has undergone hair transplantation
- Mating plug, secretion used in the mating of some animal species
- Plug, a step in the manufacturing process for parts made of carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer
- Plug, a type of chewing tobacco made by pressing tobacco with syrup
- Plug, the central element of a Plug and feathers, a tool for splitting stone
- Plug computer, a type of small-form-factor computer
- Portland Linux/Unix Group (PLUG), a group of Linux enthusiasts in Portland, Oregon
- Product plug, or product placement in marketing
- Volcanic plug, a geological landform
- Wall plug, a fastener that allows screws to be fitted into drywall or masonry walls
- Plug (plumbing)
Examples of use of plug
1. Then I tried the snoring "plug". It uses menthol vapours, heated from a plug socket.
2. She decried what she called "the notion ... that, ‘Are you just going to pull the plug?‘" "We‘re not pulling the plug on Iraq," she said.
3. Yet they have forgotten to plug one important smoking loophole.
4. The cord is terminated with a 3.5mm plug, and a screw–on phono plug adapter is provided for connecting to stereos and AV receivers.
5. Next topic: Perfecting the plug–in electric infrastructure.