plug
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.
- 2.
Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain.
Đồng nghĩa: bung, dowel, stopper, stopple
- 3.
(US)A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
He preferred a plug of tobacco to loose chaw.
- 4.
(US, slang)A high, tapering silk hat.
- 5.
(US, slang)A worthless horse.
That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!
Đồng nghĩa: bum, dobbin, hack, jade, nag
- 6.
(dated)Any worn-out or useless article.
- 7.
(dated, slang)A book that fails to sell.
- 8.
(construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
- 9.
(slang)A promotion (act of promoting) of a product (such as a book, film or play) or other thing, concept, etc, for example during an interview or a commercial.
During the interview, the author put in a plug for his latest novel.
She used her televised tour of the zoo to work in another plug for conservation.
- 10.
(geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
Pressure built beneath the plug in the caldera, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion of pyroclastic shrapnel and ash.
- 11.
(fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
The fisherman cast the plug into a likely pool, hoping to catch a whopper.
- 12.
(horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.
Đồng nghĩa: stop
- 2.
(transitive)To promote (something, especially a product or service); to mention (something) as if promoting or advertising it.
The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.
Kennedy went on nationwide speaking tour to plug environmental conservation.
- 3.
(informal, intransitive)To persist or continue with something.
Near-synonym: plug away
Keep plugging at the problem until you find a solution.
Đồng nghĩa: plug away
- 4.
(slang, transitive)To shoot (someone) with a bullet.
1884, H. Rider Haggard, The Witch's Head I am awfully glad that you kept your nerve and plugged him; it would have been better if you could have nailed him through the right shoulder, which would not have killed him...
Đồng nghĩa: cap, pop
- 5.
(slang, transitive)To have sex with; to penetrate sexually.
Near-synonyms: peg, rail
I’d love to plug him with my strap-on.
Đồng nghĩa: peg, rail
- 6.
(slang, transitive)To ingest a drug rectally.
Đồng nghĩa: boof
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From Dutch plug, from Middle Dutch plugge (peg, plug), from *pluggi, from *plugi. Further origin. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz, but the word seems originally restricted to northern continental West Germanic. Perhaps ultimately from the same source as plag, itself considered to be from a substrate.