plugging
插销,插接,插板,插件
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Definitions
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- : a piece of wood or other material used to stop up a hole or aperture, to fill a gap, or to act as a wedge.
- : a core or interior segment taken from a larger matrix.
- : Electricity. a device to which may be attached the conductors of a cord and which by insertion in a jack, or screwing into a receptacle, establishes contact.
- : spark plug.
- : a fireplug or hydrant.
- : a cake of pressed tobacco.
- : a piece of tobacco cut off for chewing.
- : Informal. the favorable mention of something, as in a lecture, radio show, etc.; advertisement; recommendation: The actress was happy to give her new show a plug.
- : Angling. an artificial lure made of wood, plastic, or metal, and fitted with one or more gang hooks, used chiefly in casting.
- : Geology. neck.
- : Slang. a worn-out or inferior horse.
- : Informal. a shopworn or unsalable article.
- : a small piece of sod used especially for seeding a lawn.
Phrases
- plug away at
- plugged in, be
- peg (plug) away at
- pull the plug on
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
On Tuesday, just two days before the planned listing, regulators in Shanghai pulled the plug, at least temporarily.
After receiving the notice, Ant Group, reading the writing on the wall, pulled the plug on its Hong Kong listing.
With an 800-volt fast charger, it can pull enough current for 100 miles of driving after just 10 minutes on the plug.
South Africa is now putting the electrical plugs and sockets the nation has relied on for generations on the road to retirement.
You’d be out a nice chunk of change had you pulled the plug back then.
Hundreds of millions of people were accustomed to toting these objects around, plugging them in to recharge them, and using them.
When the revolution comes, Suze Orman will likely be plugging away on CNBC, giving the same old financial advice.
While Washington dithers over Benghazi, AP-gate, and the IRS, advocates for immigrants just keep plugging along.
That means plugging the holes in our immigration and visa system.
The truth, which is that the Republic will probably keep plugging along no matter who is in office, does not.
As the old Turks kept plugging it in fairly hot, I sat quiet in Birdwood's dugout for a quarter of an hour.
He was plugging the hole himself with a mixture of butter and cow dung which he was poking in with a stick!