英语词汇“plug”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

plug

/plʌɡ

noun

1A piece of solid material fitting tightly into a hole and blocking it up: somewhere in the pipes there is a plug of ice blocking the flow...

Continuing down this passageway, one enters the Ascending Corridor at a point past the blocking plugs that once sealed the entrance to the tomb.
Most often the blockage occurs in the urethra after a stone or a mixture of crystal, mucus, and other organic material forms a plug.
Lifting cables, each capable of carrying 900 tonnes, will subsequently be lowered from the pontoon and secured in the holes with steel plugs.

Synonyms

stopper, bung, cork, seal, spigot, spile;

North American stopple

1.1A circular piece of metal, rubber, or plastic used to stop the plughole of a bath or basin and keep the water in it: she pulled out the plug and got out on to the sodden bath mat...

Along the way you'll encounter bath plugs, rubber ducks and get the obligatory soaking from intermittent showers.
Its rather like pouring water into a bath without putting the plug in.
Then, when you're done, you pull out the plug and the water runs away.

1.2North American informal A baby’s dummy.

1.3A mass of solidified lava filling the neck of a volcano.The landscape is scarred with great lumps of lava, volcanic plugs and long screes of volcanic soil, and there is also a vast barren sandy valley....

Geological Survey crews also observed a shift in the crater floor and on part of the 1,000-foot lava dome that essentially serves as a plug for magma, he said.
The landscape to the south is an array of volcanic plugs and glacial gouging.

1.4(In gardening) a young plant or clump of grass with a small mass of soil protecting its roots, for planting out.An inexpensive way to start a new warm-season lawn or patch an existing one is to plant plugs or sprigs in late spring to early summer....

I plan to put a little topsoil and St. Augustine grass plugs in these bare spots.
This year all the bedding plants were in plugs and this method enhances quick take up on growth when transplanted.

2A device for making an electrical connection between an appliance and the mains, consisting of an insulated casing with metal pins that fit into holes in a socket: the cable is fitted with a two-pin plug...

Try not to use extension leads and adaptor plugs; ideally each appliance should be plugged into its own socket.
The multimedia connector comes with plugs for your Firewire devices, microphone and speakers.
The company, which sells electrical wiring, plugs, sockets, switches, fans and heaters, is never going to be the sparkiest investment.

2.1A socket into which an electric plug can be fitted: the vacuum cleaner cord snaked away to a hidden plug...

Inventor Adrian Oldham has designed a gadget aimed at preventing children playing with plugs and electric sockets.
Then I found it was plugged into a plug under the sink.
An inverter module with a cigarette lighter plug on it would allow the things to be used in cars, boats, and RVs.

2.2 short for spark plug.I immediately changed the oil (single most important maintenance task) plugs, distributor cap, rotor arm, and friendly independent VW specialist fixed the exhaust....

The merger, however, also gave the group the chance to compare notes with their Daimler colleagues, specifically about the use of two plugs per cylinder.
Consulting the spark plug manufacturers regarding the plug's heat range can be of great help.

3 informal A piece of publicity promoting a product, event, or establishment: he threw in a plug, boasting that the restaurant offered many entrées for under £5...

Add to that editorial advertising, plugs for products in articles in publications of all kinds, and you know you (the consumer) are being assailed from all sides.
Product plugs and placements not only reflect societal trends, their entire purpose is to convince consumers that they ‘need’ the good or service portrayed.
I never wanted my blog to be a place where I make shameful plugs for products.

Synonyms

piece of publicity, favourable mention, advertisement, promotion, recommendation, mention, good word, commercial

informal hype, push, puff, ad, boost, ballyhoo

British informal advert

4A piece of tobacco cut from a larger cake for chewing: they sold chewing tobacco in bars and plugs...

They both drink from Tom's liquor flask and Casey chews a plug of tobacco.
They treated the mules as pets, fed them treats, cleaned their stables, treated their sores, and even shared plugs of tobacco with them.
A woman stays around the store till she get old as Methuselah and still can't cut a little thing like a plug of tobacco!

Synonyms

wad, quid, twist, chew

North American informal chaw

rare pigtail, cud, cake

4.1 [mass noun] (also plug tobacco) Tobacco in large cakes designed to be cut for chewing: he was always chewing plug and cracking jokes...

The tobacco industry remained one of the important industries at the prison: in June 1953 alone, 11,426 pounds of plug tobacco and 15,623 pounds of smoking tobacco were produced under the name ‘Little Egypt.’
By 1870 Cincinnati was the number one producer in the United States of an eclectic array of goods: carriages, glycerin, wine, whiskey, plug tobacco, and coffins.
The activities of the factory at Seville were concentrated in three main product lines: cigars, cigarettes, and plug tobacco.

5 Fishing A lure with one or more hooks attached.Carrying plugs festooned with treble hooks is a price that is inevitably paid by the penitent plug fisherman....

A little before six o'clock, we were casting plugs about a mile above St. Anthony Falls when the Patrick Gannaway, a towboat, came chugging upriver with two barges.
The big rod flexed again and again, driving the plug across the water.

6 short for fireplug.

7North American informal A tired or old horse.He was a hopeless plug and never ran in the money.

verb (plugs, plugging, plugged) [with object]

1Block or fill in (a hole or cavity): trucks arrived loaded with gravel to plug the hole and clear the road...

Thousands of local authority workers could face cuts to their pension benefits as all 15 councils in Yorkshire and the Humber try to find a way to plug the gaping black hole in their schemes.
Governor Gray Davis took steps last week to plug some of the holes in that budget, but the measures have been painful.
Once people understand what is going on in their economy they will be more interested in plugging some of the holes in the leaky economic bucket.

Synonyms

stop (up), seal (up/off), close (up/off), cork, stopper, bung, block (up/off), dam (up), fill (up), pack, stuff;

North American stopple

1.1Fill: the new sanctions are meant to plug the gaps in the trade embargo...

Special Constables are voluntary police officers who give up their time to plug the hole in police resources.
Now that they have managed to plug the gap, the Dons are letting him leave Pittodrie.
Instead of bailing water out of the leaky vessel, Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown are trying to plug the leak.

1.2Insert (something) into an opening so as to fill it: the baby plugged his thumb into his mouth

2 informal Mention (a product, event, or establishment) publicly in order to promote it: during the show he plugged his new record...

Wind her up and she plugs your product on promotion tours and TV - all in an ‘honest, objective’ endorsement.
Who needs television when the products and programmes are plugged endlessly on our stages?
The firm will send promotional mailings next month plugging Boston and Cambridge to its top 15,000 British travel customers.

Synonyms

publicize, promote, give publicity to, advertise, mention, give a mention to, write up, build up, beat/bang the drum for, commend, draw attention to

informal hype, hype up, push, puff, boost

3North American informal Shoot or hit (someone or something): he got plugged in the head while he was taking a nap...

Relieved to have a clear target who would actually notice being shot, Magnum plugged him in the upper arm, spinning him over the coffee table.
You defer to the man you fear because he'll plug you if you don't.
If anyone plugs him, it'd ‘be appreciated and rewarded’.

Synonyms

shoot, hit, shoot down, gun down, pick off

informal blast, pump full of lead

4 [no object, with adverbial] informal Proceed steadily and laboriously with a journey or task: during the years of poverty, he plugged away at his writing...

After graduating, Grant dabbled briefly in advertising, writing copy for Brylcreem and Red Stripe beer, but plugged away at an acting career in regional theatre.
In between times, he has plugged away at a steady pace, approaching his work with a measured, thorough approach more dogged than dashing.
As full time approached they plugged away at the home defence without seriously threatening to break it, until at last the backs found space.

Synonyms

toil, labour, toil away, plod away, work away, slave away, soldier on with, persevere with, persist with, keep on with, plough on with, hammer away, grind away

informal slog away, beaver away, peg away

archaic drudge away

Phrases

plug the gap (or gaps)

Phrasal verbs

plug something in

plug into

Derivatives

plugger

/ˈplʌɡə/ noun ...

In America we've been paying for people to play our music on the radio and in the UK we have pluggers who get paid a lot to try and get the record on the radio.
‘There are still a lot of Anglophiles around,’ one US radio plugger told me last week.
A former record plugger (his artists included Adam Ant and The Clash), policeman and now Vicar, these days he can add best-selling author to his CV.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German plugge, of unknown ultimate origin.

单词	plug
释义	plug /plʌɡ / noun 1A piece of solid material fitting tightly into a hole and blocking it up: somewhere in the pipes there is a plug of ice blocking the flow... Continuing down this passageway, one enters the Ascending Corridor at a point past the blocking plugs that once sealed the entrance to the tomb. Most often the blockage occurs in the urethra after a stone or a mixture of crystal, mucus, and other organic material forms a plug. Lifting cables, each capable of carrying 900 tonnes, will subsequently be lowered from the pontoon and secured in the holes with steel plugs. Synonyms stopper, bung, cork, seal, spigot, spile; North American stopple 1.1A circular piece of metal, rubber, or plastic used to stop the plughole of a bath or basin and keep the water in it: she pulled out the plug and got out on to the sodden bath mat... Along the way you'll encounter bath plugs, rubber ducks and get the obligatory soaking from intermittent showers. Its rather like pouring water into a bath without putting the plug in. Then, when you're done, you pull out the plug and the water runs away. 1.2North American informal A baby’s dummy. 1.3A mass of solidified lava filling the neck of a volcano.The landscape is scarred with great lumps of lava, volcanic plugs and long screes of volcanic soil, and there is also a vast barren sandy valley.... Geological Survey crews also observed a shift in the crater floor and on part of the 1,000-foot lava dome that essentially serves as a plug for magma, he said. The landscape to the south is an array of volcanic plugs and glacial gouging. 1.4(In gardening) a young plant or clump of grass with a small mass of soil protecting its roots, for planting out.An inexpensive way to start a new warm-season lawn or patch an existing one is to plant plugs or sprigs in late spring to early summer.... I plan to put a little topsoil and St. Augustine grass plugs in these bare spots. This year all the bedding plants were in plugs and this method enhances quick take up on growth when transplanted. 2A device for making an electrical connection between an appliance and the mains, consisting of an insulated casing with metal pins that fit into holes in a socket: the cable is fitted with a two-pin plug... Try not to use extension leads and adaptor plugs; ideally each appliance should be plugged into its own socket. The multimedia connector comes with plugs for your Firewire devices, microphone and speakers. The company, which sells electrical wiring, plugs, sockets, switches, fans and heaters, is never going to be the sparkiest investment. 2.1A socket into which an electric plug can be fitted: the vacuum cleaner cord snaked away to a hidden plug... Inventor Adrian Oldham has designed a gadget aimed at preventing children playing with plugs and electric sockets. Then I found it was plugged into a plug under the sink. An inverter module with a cigarette lighter plug on it would allow the things to be used in cars, boats, and RVs. 2.2 short for spark plug.I immediately changed the oil (single most important maintenance task) plugs, distributor cap, rotor arm, and friendly independent VW specialist fixed the exhaust.... The merger, however, also gave the group the chance to compare notes with their Daimler colleagues, specifically about the use of two plugs per cylinder. Consulting the spark plug manufacturers regarding the plug's heat range can be of great help. 3 informal A piece of publicity promoting a product, event, or establishment: he threw in a plug, boasting that the restaurant offered many entrées for under £5... Add to that editorial advertising, plugs for products in articles in publications of all kinds, and you know you (the consumer) are being assailed from all sides. Product plugs and placements not only reflect societal trends, their entire purpose is to convince consumers that they ‘need’ the good or service portrayed. I never wanted my blog to be a place where I make shameful plugs for products. Synonyms piece of publicity, favourable mention, advertisement, promotion, recommendation, mention, good word, commercial informal hype, push, puff, ad, boost, ballyhoo British informal advert 4A piece of tobacco cut from a larger cake for chewing: they sold chewing tobacco in bars and plugs... They both drink from Tom's liquor flask and Casey chews a plug of tobacco. They treated the mules as pets, fed them treats, cleaned their stables, treated their sores, and even shared plugs of tobacco with them. A woman stays around the store till she get old as Methuselah and still can't cut a little thing like a plug of tobacco! Synonyms wad, quid, twist, chew North American informal chaw rare pigtail, cud, cake 4.1 [mass noun] (also plug tobacco) Tobacco in large cakes designed to be cut for chewing: he was always chewing plug and cracking jokes... The tobacco industry remained one of the important industries at the prison: in June 1953 alone, 11,426 pounds of plug tobacco and 15,623 pounds of smoking tobacco were produced under the name ‘Little Egypt.’ By 1870 Cincinnati was the number one producer in the United States of an eclectic array of goods: carriages, glycerin, wine, whiskey, plug tobacco, and coffins. The activities of the factory at Seville were concentrated in three main product lines: cigars, cigarettes, and plug tobacco. 5 Fishing A lure with one or more hooks attached.Carrying plugs festooned with treble hooks is a price that is inevitably paid by the penitent plug fisherman.... A little before six o'clock, we were casting plugs about a mile above St. Anthony Falls when the Patrick Gannaway, a towboat, came chugging upriver with two barges. The big rod flexed again and again, driving the plug across the water. 6 short for fireplug. 7North American informal A tired or old horse.He was a hopeless plug and never ran in the money. verb (plugs, plugging, plugged) [with object] 1Block or fill in (a hole or cavity): trucks arrived loaded with gravel to plug the hole and clear the road... Thousands of local authority workers could face cuts to their pension benefits as all 15 councils in Yorkshire and the Humber try to find a way to plug the gaping black hole in their schemes. Governor Gray Davis took steps last week to plug some of the holes in that budget, but the measures have been painful. Once people understand what is going on in their economy they will be more interested in plugging some of the holes in the leaky economic bucket. Synonyms stop (up), seal (up/off), close (up/off), cork, stopper, bung, block (up/off), dam (up), fill (up), pack, stuff; North American stopple 1.1Fill: the new sanctions are meant to plug the gaps in the trade embargo... Special Constables are voluntary police officers who give up their time to plug the hole in police resources. Now that they have managed to plug the gap, the Dons are letting him leave Pittodrie. Instead of bailing water out of the leaky vessel, Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown are trying to plug the leak. 1.2Insert (something) into an opening so as to fill it: the baby plugged his thumb into his mouth 2 informal Mention (a product, event, or establishment) publicly in order to promote it: during the show he plugged his new record... Wind her up and she plugs your product on promotion tours and TV - all in an ‘honest, objective’ endorsement. Who needs television when the products and programmes are plugged endlessly on our stages? The firm will send promotional mailings next month plugging Boston and Cambridge to its top 15,000 British travel customers. Synonyms publicize, promote, give publicity to, advertise, mention, give a mention to, write up, build up, beat/bang the drum for, commend, draw attention to informal hype, hype up, push, puff, boost 3North American informal Shoot or hit (someone or something): he got plugged in the head while he was taking a nap... Relieved to have a clear target who would actually notice being shot, Magnum plugged him in the upper arm, spinning him over the coffee table. You defer to the man you fear because he'll plug you if you don't. If anyone plugs him, it'd ‘be appreciated and rewarded’. Synonyms shoot, hit, shoot down, gun down, pick off informal blast, pump full of lead 4 [no object, with adverbial] informal Proceed steadily and laboriously with a journey or task: during the years of poverty, he plugged away at* his writing... After graduating, Grant dabbled briefly in advertising, writing copy for Brylcreem and Red Stripe beer, but plugged away at an acting career in regional theatre. In between times, he has plugged away at a steady pace, approaching his work with a measured, thorough approach more dogged than dashing. As full time approached they plugged away at the home defence without seriously threatening to break it, until at last the backs found space. Synonyms toil, labour, toil away, plod away, work away, slave away, soldier on with, persevere with, persist with, keep on with, plough on with, hammer away, grind away informal* slog away, beaver away, peg away archaic drudge away Phrases plug the gap (or gaps) Phrasal verbs plug something in plug into Derivatives plugger /ˈplʌɡə/ noun ... In America we've been paying for people to play our music on the radio and in the UK we have pluggers who get paid a lot to try and get the record on the radio. ‘There are still a lot of Anglophiles around,’ one US radio plugger told me last week. A former record plugger (his artists included Adam Ant and The Clash), policeman and now Vicar, these days he can add best-selling author to his CV. Origin Early 17th century: from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German plugge, of unknown ultimate origin. Rhymes bug, chug, Doug, drug, dug, fug, glug, hug, jug, lug, mug, pug, rug, shrug, slug, smug, snug, thug, trug, tug
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