Plug

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  • noun. An object, such as a cork or a wad of cloth, used to fill a hole tightly; a stopper.
  • noun. A dense mass of material that obstructs a passage.
  • noun. A usually cylindrical or conic piece cut from something larger, often as a sample.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A fitting, commonly with two metal prongs for insertion in a fixed socket, used to connect an appliance to a power supply.
  • noun. A spark plug.
  • noun. A hydrant.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A flat cake of pressed or twisted tobacco.
  • noun. A piece of chewing tobacco.
  • noun. A mass of igneous rock filling the vent of a volcano.
  • noun. A favorable public mention of a commercial product, business, or performance, especially when broadcast.
  • noun. Something inferior, useless, or defective, especially an old, worn-out horse.
  • noun. A gunshot or bullet.
  • noun. A fishing lure having a hook or hooks.
  • intransitive verb. To fill (a hole) tightly with or as if with a plug; stop up.
  • intransitive verb. To insert (something) as a plug.
  • intransitive verb. To insert in an appropriate place or position.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To hit with a bullet; shoot.
  • intransitive verb. To hit with the fist; punch.
  • intransitive verb. To publicize (a product, for example) favorably, as by mentioning on a broadcast.
  • intransitive verb. To become stopped up or obstructed.
  • intransitive verb. To move or work doggedly and persistently.
  • phrasal verb. To connect (an appliance) to an electrical outlet.
  • phrasal verb. To function by being connected to an electrical outlet.
  • phrasal verb. To cause (someone) to use a computer network, the Internet, or an electronic device.
  • phrasal verb. To become informed about or involved with.
  • phrasal verb. To connect or be connected in the manner of an electrical appliance.
  • phrasal verb. To cause (someone) to use a computer network, the Internet, or an electronic device.
  • phrasal verb. To cause to be informed about or involved with.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In geology, a cylindrical mass of lava, a remnant of the last eruption from a volcanic vent, which chilled in the conduit and plugged it up. See neck, 6 , and stock, 35.
  • noun. A book that does not sell at all.
  • noun. In stone-cutting, a wedge which is driven into a hole that has been drilled in a stone for the purpose of splitting it. For large pieces of stone a series of holes is drilled and a wedge or plug driven into each.
  • noun. In a steam-engine: A plug-rod; a plug-frame.
  • noun. A safety-plug; a fusible plug inserted in a boiler and made of some alloy which will melt if the temperature of the metal plate of the shell rises above a certain point by reason of low water.
  • noun. Same as peg, 7.
  • noun. A piece of wood or other substance, usually in the form of a peg or cork, used to stop a hole in a vessel; a stopple; a bung or stopper of any kind.
  • noun. A peg, wedge, or other appliance driven in, or used to stop a hole or fill a gap. ,
  • noun. A wedge-pin forced between a rail and its chair on a railway.
  • noun. A spigot driven into place, as in a barrel, in contradistinction to one screwed in.
  • noun. A wooden stopper fitted in the opening of the pump on a ship's deck during a storm, to protect the water-tanks against lightning; a pump-stopper.
  • noun. A small piece of some substance, as metallic foil, used by a dentist to fill the cavity of a decayed tooth.
  • noun. A branch pipe from a watermain, leading to a point where a hose can be conveniently attached, and closed by a cap or plug; a fire-plug.
  • noun. In die-sinking, a cylindrical piece of soft steel the end of which is fitted to a matrix.
  • noun. A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
  • noun. A man's silk or dress hat; a plug-hat.
  • noun. A worn, damaged, unfashionable, or otherwise injured article, which, by reason of its defects, has become undesirable, unsalable, or in a condition rendering it difficult to sell without a large reduction of its price, as a shelf-worn book, or an old horse worn down by hard work. Also old plug.
  • noun. A short, thick-set person.
  • noun. A workman who has served no regular apprenticeship.
  • Word Usage
    "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."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Putin  advertise  advertize  bit  bite  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bug  Doug  Lug  Zug  antidrug  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    adapter  assembly  barrel  block  bolt  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    plugged  plugging  
    verb-form
    pluged  plugged  plugging  plugs