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Definition of plug in English: plugnounPlural plugs plʌɡpləɡ 1A piece of solid material fitting tightly into a hole and blocking it up. 堵塞物 somewhere in the pipes there is a plug of ice blocking the flow 管子里某个位置有冰块堵住了水流。 Example sentencesExamples - My advice, come lunchtime, is look for a wheatsheaf painted beside a door and find yourself a bouchon, the traditional Lyonnais bistro named after the straw plugs once used as bottle-stoppers.
- A small cotton plug moistened with the drops can be used to help retain the drops in the ear if the patient cannot lie still long enough to allow absorption.
- He or she grasps it with a hemostat and guides the bone plug into the femoral socket.
- That is a flow rate of 205 liters per minute which is proven to be sufficient to expel a solid foreign body or mucous plugs.
- I'm short, clumsy and I consume vast amounts of coke and ice cream, which even as we speak are forming plugs in all my major arteries, therefore ensuring that I have little chance of living past the age of forty.
- The purpose of most acne medicines is to stop plugs from forming in hair follicles and to reduce swelling in your skin.
- Maintenance is likewise the same as other bolt-action muzzleloaders since the 10ML-II now has a removable breech plug.
- The spigot stem had an annular cutting edge to cut a cylindrical plug out of the bung or stopper by twisting the spigot.
- To reduce the possibility of a graft construct mismatch, the surgeon places the longer bone plug on the femoral side.
- In more complex cases, your options range from adult diapers to urethral plugs or from surgery to hormone therapy for menopausal women.
- The tube was closed at the top with an aluminium plug with a centre mark to define the station.
- Biomedical engineers picked up the trend, making plastic plugs to replace pieces of damaged bone.
- Custom-fitted earplugs are best, but foam rubber or wax plugs can also work.
- 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.
- Remove enough of the gypsum from this piece so that you are left with a plug the size of the hole and a paper brim that will cover the bare gypsum.
- Locking lugs on the bolt are removed, turning it into a striker, while the breech is sealed with a breech plug.
- You can cork it with a run-of-the mill wine cork or, if you want to get fancy, you can buy a rubber plugs from the hardware store.
- Lifting cables, each capable of carrying 900 tonnes, will subsequently be lowered from the pontoon and secured in the holes with steel plugs.
- Wherever there is an injury to the blood vessel, clotting factors in the blood come into play, and the wound is sealed by a fibrin plug otherwise called a clot.
Synonyms stopper, bung, cork, seal, spigot, spile North American stopple - 1.1 A circular piece of metal, rubber, or plastic used to stop the plughole of a bath or basin and keep the water in it.
塞子，栓 she pulled out the plug and got out on to the sodden bath mat Example sentencesExamples - So the tap had to be turned on as well as the plug put in the bath.
- There are no plugs for the bath or basin and the shower fitting does not fit the shower.
- A selection of 3 or 4 different sized bath plugs - how many Spanish hotels don't have them and require a deposit to get one?
- Everything that looks gold - from ceilings to bath plugs - is gold.
- It seemed to work, after filling both sinks and the bath, pulling all the plugs at the same time, all the water disappeared in reasonably quick time.
- So I made my own, with a piece of cardboard and a sink plug.
- Along the way you'll encounter bath plugs, rubber ducks and get the obligatory soaking from intermittent showers.
- The government is preparing to throw an extra £19 billion away over the next four years stuffing the NHS with extra cash - like trying to run a bath with the plug out.
- My bath in Japan had a rubber ball instead of a plug.
- We didn't have a plug in the bath, and the shower attachment couldn't be… attached.
- Often there is hot water but never a plug for the washbasin.
- Then, when you're done, you pull out the plug and the water runs away.
- I removed the drain plug and water began pouring out.
- There was the sudden sound of water flooding into a drain as somewhere nearby a plug was pulled from a sink.
- The two-year-old had been sharing a bath with her eight-year-old sister Chloe when she suddenly pulled out the plug and stuck her finger down the plughole.
- This wastes more that five litres every minute; turning the tap off or putting the plug in the basin will cut the amount of water used, and lost during these tasks.
- But when I was a kid I thought that if you took the plug out of the bath while you were still in it you would be sucked down with the water.
- She also said bottled water on the ward was now available to patients, sinks had been fitted with plugs, and new bathmats had been brought in.
- Can't comment on the ladies, but the gents did not smell very fresh and lacked a plug to the hand basin.
- Its rather like pouring water into a bath without putting the plug in.
Synonyms stopper, stop, bung, peg, spigot, spile, seal - 1.2North American informal A baby's dummy.
〈北美，非正式〉（婴儿的）橡皮奶头 - 1.3 A mass of solidified lava filling the neck of a volcano.
岩颈 Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- Unless the volcano beneath the castle blows its plug, Oloroso will always be an extremely nice place to be.
- The landscape to the south is an array of volcanic plugs and glacial gouging.
- For the first time in nearly a half century, puffins are returning to Ailsa Craig, a plug of volcanic rock off the west coast of Scotland.
- 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.
- 1.4 (in gardening) a young plant or clump of grass with a small mass of soil protecting its roots, for planting out.
（园艺用语）（供移植的）幼苗，草皮 Example sentencesExamples - Usually buy these as 50p plugs (baby plants) and grow them on.
- 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.
- You can buy 10 plugs for £3 from a wholesaler and grow them on, or spend £4.50 and get a good single specimen of a herbaceous perennial that will be really doing its stuff at this time of year.
- This year all the bedding plants were in plugs and this method enhances quick take up on growth when transplanted.
- I plan to put a little topsoil and St. Augustine grass plugs in these bare spots.
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. 插头 the cable is fitted with a two-pin plug Example sentencesExamples - That the light boxes were encased in modest plywood and hooked up to the gallery's electrical outlets with ordinary plugs and extension cords didn't detract from the magic.
- I had recently injured my foot by stepping on a laptop plug.
- And he takes the plug and he plugs it into the generator.
- I started going round the flat, checking all the points and taking all the plugs out of the wall.
- The multimedia connector comes with plugs for your Firewire devices, microphone and speakers.
- That includes manuals in various languages, cables and electric plugs for different countries.
- Use only three-wire extension cords for appliances with three-prong plugs.
- Eventually I bent one of the pins in the keyboard plug and it had to go.
- The stock cables had black plastic 3.5mm plugs and much thinner wire.
- And it was a Watchdog campaign that led to electrical appliances being sold with fitted plugs.
- The company, which sells electrical wiring, plugs, sockets, switches, fans and heaters, is never going to be the sparkiest investment.
- My TV system alone requires 8 plugs… and hence the smoke alarm!
- Try not to use extension leads and adaptor plugs; ideally each appliance should be plugged into its own socket.
- Transformers that will be used outside (as almost all will!) really need a 3-prong plug.
- The quick-thinking mum also pulled all plugs from electric sockets in the house.
- 2.1 A socket into which an electric plug can be fitted.
插座 the vacuum cleaner cord snaked away to a hidden plug Example sentencesExamples - It's a great idea because even older homes usually have a phone jack and several electrical plugs in each room.
- They are often placed behind light fittings or plugs.
- An inverter module with a cigarette lighter plug on it would allow the things to be used in cars, boats, and RVs.
- Then I found it was plugged into a plug under the sink.
- Do you think that uncovered plugs and switches pose a hazard, or is that being too picky?
- Inventor Adrian Oldham has designed a gadget aimed at preventing children playing with plugs and electric sockets.
- 2.2
short for spark plug Example sentencesExamples - Consulting the spark plug manufacturers regarding the plug's heat range can be of great help.
- 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.
- This tells me that both plugs are fired on each cylinder at the same time, but the plugs on each cylinder are fired by two different coils.
- I immediately changed the oil (single most important maintenance task) plugs, distributor cap, rotor arm, and friendly independent VW specialist fixed the exhaust.
- The timing was checked by turning the engine by hand with the plugs out to see if the rotor turns.
3informal A piece of publicity promoting a product, event, or establishment. 〈非正式〉（产品、活动或机构的）宣传，广告 he threw in a plug, boasting that the restaurant offered many entrées for under £5 他插入了一个广告，吹嘘该饭店提供许多种价格在五美元以下的主菜肴。 Example sentencesExamples - The film is littered with blatant plugs for a variety of brand names.
- And while I'm at it, here is another plug for my brother's stained glass studio, Glass Threshold.
- 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.
- To conclude on an off-topic note, I would like to present you, my tiny and loyal audience, with another of those shameless plugs for interesting friends who have just taken to blogging.
- I don't give plugs as a rule, but I make an honourable exception for the annual Saints & Sinners meeting at Hamilton on Wednesday.
- What about dumping the crazy-young-doing-crazy-stuff style adverts that dominate on TV today and turning instead to the creation of simple plugs for brands of dry sherry and short breaks to Madeira?
- Last weekend, stunned listeners were treated to a plug for a piece by a former Supreme Court judge.
- Hey, Carlos, before I get into this next shameless plug, will you join us on the radio again tonight?
- And you all will have to forgive me for that shameless plug.
- Every day there are ‘news items’ in regional news broadcasts about the opening of some new factory, with thinly-veiled plugs for features and benefits of the new product.
- If you're in the Bay Area, I'm about to make a rare and unusual plug for a Stanford event.
- Media outlets are filled with ads, commercial plugs and vapid - or corrosive - content leaving the impression that gifted artists sell out to the almighty dollar sooner or later.
- ‘No free plugs in my paper,’ I was saying to myself in my head.
- Some games, while managing to capture the feeling of speed from the movie, sold out their street cred with the number of commercial plugs scattered through the game.
- I'll put in another plug for their courses on tape.
- Of course, I had to get that little plug in there for my big bosses.
- Its good for cricket in East Yorkshire, and the numerous plugs for the game on national radio also gets the town of Hornsea nationwide publicity
- 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.
- On the other hand, the televised games are damaged by the profusion of commercial plugs, logos and the like.
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. 口嚼烟草块（条） they sold chewing tobacco in bars and plugs Example sentencesExamples - The Bryants assumed that the children wanted candy, but the mother bought tobacco and gave each a plug; this became their weekly treat.
- The whole country divided on the issue of a few plugs of tobacco?
- Rumor had it that he had once given our catcher on the baseball team a big plug of chewing tobacco to try out.
- They both drink from Tom's liquor flask and Casey chews a plug of tobacco.
- 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!
- This type of smokeless tobacco comes in loose leaf, plugs or twists.
- Goya shows them sitting on rocks under a bare tree, cutting plugs of contraband tobacco, with a coil of rope on the ground, handy for tying up victims.
- They treated the mules as pets, fed them treats, cleaned their stables, treated their sores, and even shared plugs of tobacco with them.
Synonyms wad, quid, twist, chew North American informal chaw rare pigtail, cud, cake - 4.1also plug tobaccomass noun Tobacco in large cakes designed to be cut for chewing.
口嚼烟草饼 he was always chewing plug and cracking jokes Example sentencesExamples - 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.’
- The activities of the factory at Seville were concentrated in three main product lines: cigars, cigarettes, and plug tobacco.
- 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.
5Fishing
A lure with one or more hooks attached. 〔渔〕鱼饵 Example sentencesExamples - The big rod flexed again and again, driving the plug across the water.
- Spinning artificial lures such as bar spoons and plugs offered great sport and this led some anglers to develop the idea that Atlantic Bass could be caught on an artificial lure and with a fly-rod.
- 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.
- There is also rock fishing at Europa Point below the Lighthouse for bass fishing, spinners and plugs - though a rubber sand eel on a light trace would be the better bet.
- Carrying plugs festooned with treble hooks is a price that is inevitably paid by the penitent plug fisherman.
Synonyms lure, decoy, fly, troll, jig, teaser 7North American informal A tired or old horse. 〈北美，非正式〉疲惫的马；老马 Example sentencesExamples - He was a hopeless plug and never ran in the money.
Synonyms nag, inferior horse, tired-out horse, worn-out horse, rosinante
verbplugging, plugged, plugs plʌɡpləɡ [with object]1Block or fill in (a hole or cavity) 堵，填（洞，穴） trucks arrived loaded with gravel to plug the hole and clear the road 满载碎石的卡车到了，这些碎石是用来填坑平路的。 Example sentencesExamples - Pheobe plugged the drain in the sink and filled it up with warm water.
- Thinking again, she plugged the sink's hole, just to be sure.
- It has started preparing next year's budget weeks earlier than usual to ensure it plugs the budget gap in time.
- BMP Additional Commissioner P K Srihari said that officials were working on plugging loopholes in the TDR scheme - to prevent document duplication and use of fake TDR certificates.
- Mergers such as DaimlerChrysler were carried out to help expand market share, enter new markets, and plug product gaps.
- Our understanding of each phenomenon is incomplete, but the scientific approach to plugging gaps in our knowledge is not to create a new anti-theory that dismisses the underlying phenomenon.
- Rather than sit about and fuss over the ideal way to fix the problem, the group took a quick, short step to plug the hole.
- She plugged the drain and waited for clean water to fill up the bath.
- The city approved a $350,000 grant for the project to plug the gap between the $2.11 million project cost and the $1.76 million in funding sources that already had been identified.
- Some children with congenital heart abnormalities have fine tungsten spirals inserted into the heart to plug small holes between the cavities of the two ventricles.
- In the past month, the team has added four new starters on offense and perhaps two more on defense, effectively plugging the holes left from a turbulent offseason.
- And then, while billions are spent to plug this hole, the excuses will fly fast and far, but the reason will be simple: greed.
- Governor Gray Davis took steps last week to plug some of the holes in that budget, but the measures have been painful.
- She plugs the hole with digested wood known as ‘frass.’
- The company plugs one hole or advises customers to take a certain measure, and the hackers find four ways around it.
- If the defensive holes aren't plugged, the Quakes' season could go down the drain in a hurry.
- Using X-ray guidance, the doctor places an expandable disk into the defect, which plugs the hole.
- So I decided that I should plug this gap in my education and rented a few tapes of big matches to try and figure out how hurling works.
- I couldn't work in a situation where I thought I was only here to plug a hole.
- 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.
- 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 - 1.1 Fill.
the new sanctions are meant to plug the gaps in the trade embargo 〈喻〉这些新制裁旨在堵住贸易禁运中的漏洞。 Example sentencesExamples - The mere mention of ethnic diversity has academics plugging their ears and slamming paper bags over their heads.
- Ignore the hype: plug up your ears and shut off the television.
- Now the government is set to plug the loophole in the law aimed at keeping drinkers off pavements and roadways.
- Special Constables are voluntary police officers who give up their time to plug the hole in police resources.
- Obviously disgusted he couldn't do anything naughty there, he had moved back around, in front of her, to use his fingers to plug her nostrils.
- Instead of bailing water out of the leaky vessel, Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown are trying to plug the leak.
- Therefore, trying to fill our emptiness with anything other than spiritual pursuits is like trying to plug a round hole with a square cork.
- The company apologized profusely and said it plugged the security hole, but privacy advocates have their doubts.
- Now that they have managed to plug the gap, the Dons are letting him leave Pittodrie.
- And once again, she was racing ahead, with eyes cast downward and ear buds plugging her ears.
- The Clippers never will amount to more than playoff wannabes until they plug the gaping holes in their interior defense.
- He said crews aggressively attempt to plug leaks, but new leaks frequently open where patches had earlier been applied.
- She plugs the hole with digested wood known as "frass."
- 1.2 Insert (something) into an opening so as to fill it.
插入，塞入 the baby plugged his thumb into his mouth 这个婴儿把大拇指塞进了嘴里。
2informal Mention (a product, event, or establishment) publicly in order to promote it. 〈非正式〉推广，宣传（产品，活动，机构） during the show he plugged his new record 在演出中间，他宣传了他的新唱片。 Example sentencesExamples - The distinctive voice and gripping lyrics of German vocalist and producer Enik have been plugged through his recent vocal work on Funkstorung's album, Disconnected.
- We don't expect him to really use the products he plugs (and indeed, there are so many of them that he'd have to build a new house just for them).
- What a surprise to see a wallaby had escaped from a marsupial centre in the area, just weeks before the official opening which you obligingly plug the date of.
- He sits in a specially provided armchair, in front of display boards plugging the University's mission and achievements.
- He says that when they approached him to plug the Snout record he gave them a price he knew they could afford.
- He has expressed his horror that his writings are being plugged on the British National Party website.
- The interview does give plenty of background on the director's career, and he gets a change to plug the vastly superior Metropolis at the end.
- No matter what problem a caller has, he will not hesitate to plug some 30 dollar spyware program that probably contains spyware in itself.
- The firm will send promotional mailings next month plugging Boston and Cambridge to its top 15,000 British travel customers.
- I've plugged Teller's writing on this blog over the years.
- She received a massive, multi-million dollar payment to help plug Leitch's upcoming book.
- When Bitton is not thinking about politics or plugging his documentary, he's poring over ancient manuscripts, books and articles.
- The pair have been plugging each other's products for a couple of years now in a bid to try and offer a ‘triple play’ service to rival cablecos NTL and Telewest.
- And the girls have been on a promotional tour of Europe, plugging Sound of the Underground.
- Who needs television when the products and programmes are plugged endlessly on our stages?
- After the commercial, they plugged the Drowning Pool song.
- With readers flocking to their Web postings, execs are finding blogs useful for plugging not just their products but their points of view.
- Ads plugging the new all-in-one products have already appeared in the press.
- Wind her up and she plugs your product on promotion tours and TV - all in an ‘honest, objective’ endorsement.
- Excellent material for anyone who does scenario planning - and I'm not just saying that because he plugs Techdirt as a publication he reads.
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) 〈非正式〉射击，击打 he got plugged in the head while he was taking a nap Example sentencesExamples - Quartermain, when told that a fleeing hoodlum is too far to shoot, says, ‘You're right,’ puts on his spectacles, and then plugs the thug in the rear.
- 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.
- If he meets Miller in the middle of the desert and plugs him, problem solved.
- I raised the little .22 and plugged him between the shoulders.
- You defer to the man you fear because he'll plug you if you don't.
- Tragically, big brother never gets to see his junior realize his dreams, when he gets fatally plugged by Anonymous Gun-Toting Thief.
- As EastEnders finished last night, the nation exhaled, put the kettle on and began to argue: who plugged Phil Mitchell?
- I was calm, even though someone could try to plug me from that range and have a thirty-to-fifty percent chance of success.
- Why doesn't he just jump out and plug me full of lead right now?
- 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 4informal no object, with adverbial Proceed steadily and laboriously with a journey or task. 〈非正式〉艰难地走；埋头于 during the years of poverty, he plugged away at his writing 在贫困的岁月里，他埋头于写作。 Example sentencesExamples - So you continue to plug away, knowing that the gains you want will come with time.
- The characters plug along until, as always in the movies, a crisis requires them to re-examine why they are so unhappy and how they got there.
- In between times, he has plugged away at a steady pace, approaching his work with a measured, thorough approach more dogged than dashing.
- I just keep on plugging away, doing my thing, forging ahead, etc.
- Meanwhile Graham has been plugging on with the task of removing the old kitchen floor covering and applying the new.
- Let's say you are plugging away at your current geek-of-the-week task, and for some insane reason, a strange noise starts emitting from the overhead speaker.
- It means, rather, that our brains have to keep plugging along, trying to devise hypotheses that more accurately map the causal structure of reality.
- 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.
- As full time approached they plugged away at the home defence without seriously threatening to break it, until at last the backs found space.
- Some have dropped down to continue playing, while others have been plugging away outside the limelight for all their careers.
- I am ready to be converted, however, so keep plugging away Jack.
- His speech, impaired by Parkinson's, is garbled, but he plugged along.
- Can it continue to plug along into the fall?
- There's more stuff to dispose of before we move, and we'll keep plugging at it.
- And you just keep plugging away and see wonderful things when you continue.
- Still plugging away on the book and it's coming along nicely.
- I was ecstatic because for a long time we were teetering on the edge of breakup but always plugged along because we both know our relationship was more unique and stronger than others.
- Cultivating the spirit of perseverance, they keep plugging grimly along, clinging to the hope that this will eventually do them some good.
- But both before and after he takes over, this low-budget Australian comedy plugs along without a single inventive moment.
- He told us to just keep plugging away and, if the chances came along, to take them.
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
PhrasesProvide something that is lacking in a particular situation. the government is to borrow £29 billion to plug the gap in public spending Example sentencesExamples - Meanwhile, Lee rushed up reserves to plug the gap.
- The problem then is finding someone to plug the gap.
- The Treasury is understood to have allocated an extra 60 million to DCMS to help plug the gap.
- Britain's banks are in no position to plug the gap.
- New staff recruited from Britain could also be offered £2,000 "golden hellos" under a package of measures to plug the gaps.
- They say they are already considering raiding the savings of cash rich schools to plug the gap.
- Any chance of a fightback was quickly quashed by Keighley's defence who plugged the gaps.
- Thus far, the United States has had no problem attracting money from abroad to plug the gaps.
- Xuan even contemplated trying to find workers outside China to plug the gap.
- The council is currently recruiting up to 20 front-line staff from Canada to help plug the gaps.
Phrasal VerbsConnect an electrical appliance to the mains by inserting a plug in a socket. （将插头插入插座以）给…接通电源；接通电源 she plugged in the electric kettle and spooned coffee into the percolator Example sentencesExamples - Since then, I always check for water on the floor when I plug appliances in.
- No warning appears if no power connector is plugged in, and the performance of the card is the same either way.
- When I first purchased my computer, I thought that all I needed to do was plug it in, connect it to the phone line, and everything would be OK.
- All you do is plug the machine in, switch it to Auto and you're all set to start protecting your private information.
- To start, simply mount the transformer near a grounded outdoor electrical outlet and plug it in.
- The son runs to the TV, plugs it in, and soon the whole family is tuned in.
- But a laptop, even if it was plugged in, would just react to the mains cutoff by switching to its internal battery.
- He said he objected when he was first asked if a radio could be plugged in during lessons.
- You don't plug the electric system in to recharge - it does this itself during the drive, even using energy from the braking system.
- The Crickets came on stage and Sonny Curtis struck a chord, part warm-up, part check the guitar is plugged in, part, perhaps, unconscious pre-performance ritual.
1(of an electrical appliance) be connected to another appliance by a lead inserted in a socket. （将插头插入插座以）给…接通电源；接通电源 you can buy a camera which will plug into your video cassette recorder Example sentencesExamples - This comes with some electric cord that plugs into the camera body and has a shoe plate at the end of it that slips over the foot of your flash.
- It's really the simplest thing - a small, high quality screen which plugs into the phone socket.
- The trigger set plugs into the computer's serial port and includes a hand glove and a footpad.
- These CPUs plugged into a socket called Socket 754.
- This comes into my computer via a modem which plugs into a USB socket.
- The receiver plugs into the controller socket and must match the channel number you're using.
- This gives customers a fairly painless way to double the processor count of their servers, as the module plugs into existing sockets.
- The downside is that a Socket 940 CPU won't plug into a Socket 939 motherboard, or vice versa.
- Very simplified, it's the speed that the CPU socket, where it plugs into the motherboard, runs at.
- These can be stand-alone systems or they can be a component that plugs into your computer.
- 1.1Gain or have access to a system of computerized information.
接入（电脑信息系统） we plug into the research facilities available at the institute 我们接入了学院的研究设施。 Example sentencesExamples - People who use the Internet are interested in fast responses, so they plug into that speed-driven system and find what they want.
- Will it be possible for Movable Type and TypePad users to plug into a non-SixApart authentication system?
- Will it be possible for Radio users to plug into a non-Userland scripting system?
- And that is what we're doing with the police department, being able to plug into their system of receivers that enhance the signal under those difficult conditions and send it on.
- It seems that our whole economy is being run by groups of people gathered in grey buildings on the edges of towns plugged into phone systems.
- So, whereas this process used to keep her informed of what was going on, it almost immediately becomes common knowledge to those plugged into the website.
- For example, when people join the evolt mailing list, they're instantly plugged into vast amounts of knowledge for free.
- If British troops are to fight ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with the Americans, then they have to be plugged into the same hi-tech systems.
- Ideally, anyone plugged into the system should be able to go down the checklist and create a desired result.
- Most, she believes, will be ‘virtual’ adventurers, plugging into computer-simulated cyber-trips rendered with astonishing clarity.
- 1.2Become knowledgeable about and involved with.
〈喻〉熟悉，非常了解 the workshops are a great way to plug into radical ideas and radical groups Example sentencesExamples - Instead of plugging into the boob tube, I chose to increase my study of our ancient and holy Jewish texts and plug into a fountain of spiritual knowledge.
- For Lischner, the experience of being plugged into an existing team showed other potential hiring weaknesses.
- Keep tabs on all the latest position battles and injury information, stay plugged into training camp developments, and adjust your rankings accordingly.
- Upmarket furniture dealers have also plugged into the trend, setting up experience centres to create a live-in ambience for various rooms.
- In order to charge things up, to imbue them with our good will and intention, we need to feel connected and plugged into the energy of the earth.
- As such, it can be enjoyed by regular cinema-goers and loved by eager fans if they plug into the nostalgia for the defining cinematic experience they had in 1991.
- Far from being crazy, the oil executive had simply been citing what was common knowledge to anyone properly plugged into the pace of events in southern Africa.
- The public is more plugged into what's happening in the second leg, and former optimism begins to turn to questioning and even gloom.
- In the world of elite sport, knowledge is power, as increasingly coaches and administrators are plugging into high-tech strategies to boost performance.
Derivativesnoun ˈplʌɡəˈpləɡər 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. Example sentencesExamples - With first-round pick Marcus Stroud expected to win a starting role, he provides a space plugger in the middle, which should allow Gary Walker more freedom to rush the passer.
- 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.
- Her current boyfriend, Andy Hipkiss, is a record plugger for Warner Music.
OriginEarly 17th century: from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German plugge, of unknown ultimate origin. Rhymesbug, chug, Doug, drug, dug, fug, glug, hug, jug, lug, mug, pug, rug, shrug, slug, smug, snug, thug, trug, tug Definition of plug in US English: plugnounpləɡpləɡ 1An obstruction blocking a hole, pipe, etc. somewhere in the pipes there is a plug of ice blocking the flow 管子里某个位置有冰块堵住了水流。 Example sentencesExamples - Wherever there is an injury to the blood vessel, clotting factors in the blood come into play, and the wound is sealed by a fibrin plug otherwise called a clot.
- Continuing down this passageway, one enters the Ascending Corridor at a point past the blocking plugs that once sealed the entrance to the tomb.
- A small cotton plug moistened with the drops can be used to help retain the drops in the ear if the patient cannot lie still long enough to allow absorption.
- You can cork it with a run-of-the mill wine cork or, if you want to get fancy, you can buy a rubber plugs from the hardware store.
- The purpose of most acne medicines is to stop plugs from forming in hair follicles and to reduce swelling in your skin.
- Most often the blockage occurs in the urethra after a stone or a mixture of crystal, mucus, and other organic material forms a plug.
- Locking lugs on the bolt are removed, turning it into a striker, while the breech is sealed with a breech plug.
- I'm short, clumsy and I consume vast amounts of coke and ice cream, which even as we speak are forming plugs in all my major arteries, therefore ensuring that I have little chance of living past the age of forty.
- The spigot stem had an annular cutting edge to cut a cylindrical plug out of the bung or stopper by twisting the spigot.
- To reduce the possibility of a graft construct mismatch, the surgeon places the longer bone plug on the femoral side.
- Maintenance is likewise the same as other bolt-action muzzleloaders since the 10ML-II now has a removable breech plug.
- Remove enough of the gypsum from this piece so that you are left with a plug the size of the hole and a paper brim that will cover the bare gypsum.
- Biomedical engineers picked up the trend, making plastic plugs to replace pieces of damaged bone.
- That is a flow rate of 205 liters per minute which is proven to be sufficient to expel a solid foreign body or mucous plugs.
- Custom-fitted earplugs are best, but foam rubber or wax plugs can also work.
- My advice, come lunchtime, is look for a wheatsheaf painted beside a door and find yourself a bouchon, the traditional Lyonnais bistro named after the straw plugs once used as bottle-stoppers.
- In more complex cases, your options range from adult diapers to urethral plugs or from surgery to hormone therapy for menopausal women.
- The tube was closed at the top with an aluminium plug with a centre mark to define the station.
- Lifting cables, each capable of carrying 900 tonnes, will subsequently be lowered from the pontoon and secured in the holes with steel plugs.
- He or she grasps it with a hemostat and guides the bone plug into the femoral socket.
Synonyms stopper, bung, cork, seal, spigot, spile - 1.1 A circular piece of metal, rubber, or plastic used to stop the drain of a bathtub or basin and keep the water in it.
塞子，栓 Example sentencesExamples - I removed the drain plug and water began pouring out.
- So the tap had to be turned on as well as the plug put in the bath.
- This wastes more that five litres every minute; turning the tap off or putting the plug in the basin will cut the amount of water used, and lost during these tasks.
- It seemed to work, after filling both sinks and the bath, pulling all the plugs at the same time, all the water disappeared in reasonably quick time.
- My bath in Japan had a rubber ball instead of a plug.
- Then, when you're done, you pull out the plug and the water runs away.
- Its rather like pouring water into a bath without putting the plug in.
- There are no plugs for the bath or basin and the shower fitting does not fit the shower.
- The government is preparing to throw an extra £19 billion away over the next four years stuffing the NHS with extra cash - like trying to run a bath with the plug out.
- Can't comment on the ladies, but the gents did not smell very fresh and lacked a plug to the hand basin.
- Everything that looks gold - from ceilings to bath plugs - is gold.
- Often there is hot water but never a plug for the washbasin.
- We didn't have a plug in the bath, and the shower attachment couldn't be… attached.
- Along the way you'll encounter bath plugs, rubber ducks and get the obligatory soaking from intermittent showers.
- She also said bottled water on the ward was now available to patients, sinks had been fitted with plugs, and new bathmats had been brought in.
- The two-year-old had been sharing a bath with her eight-year-old sister Chloe when she suddenly pulled out the plug and stuck her finger down the plughole.
- But when I was a kid I thought that if you took the plug out of the bath while you were still in it you would be sucked down with the water.
- So I made my own, with a piece of cardboard and a sink plug.
- There was the sudden sound of water flooding into a drain as somewhere nearby a plug was pulled from a sink.
- A selection of 3 or 4 different sized bath plugs - how many Spanish hotels don't have them and require a deposit to get one?
Synonyms stopper, stop, bung, peg, spigot, spile, seal - 1.2North American informal A baby's pacifier.
- 1.3 A mass of solidified lava filling the neck of an old volcano.
岩颈 Example sentencesExamples - The landscape to the south is an array of volcanic plugs and glacial gouging.
- 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.
- Unless the volcano beneath the castle blows its plug, Oloroso will always be an extremely nice place to be.
- For the first time in nearly a half century, puffins are returning to Ailsa Craig, a plug of volcanic rock off the west coast of Scotland.
- 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.
- 1.4 (in gardening) a young plant or clump of grass with a small mass of soil protecting its roots, for planting in the ground.
（园艺用语）（供移植的）幼苗，草皮 Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- This year all the bedding plants were in plugs and this method enhances quick take up on growth when transplanted.
- You can buy 10 plugs for £3 from a wholesaler and grow them on, or spend £4.50 and get a good single specimen of a herbaceous perennial that will be really doing its stuff at this time of year.
- Usually buy these as 50p plugs (baby plants) and grow them on.
- I plan to put a little topsoil and St. Augustine grass plugs in these bare spots.
2A device for making an electrical connection, especially between an appliance and a power supply, consisting of an insulated casing with metal pins that fit into holes in an outlet. 插头 Example sentencesExamples - I started going round the flat, checking all the points and taking all the plugs out of the wall.
- Try not to use extension leads and adaptor plugs; ideally each appliance should be plugged into its own socket.
- The stock cables had black plastic 3.5mm plugs and much thinner wire.
- Transformers that will be used outside (as almost all will!) really need a 3-prong plug.
- My TV system alone requires 8 plugs… and hence the smoke alarm!
- 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.
- Use only three-wire extension cords for appliances with three-prong plugs.
- That includes manuals in various languages, cables and electric plugs for different countries.
- I had recently injured my foot by stepping on a laptop plug.
- That the light boxes were encased in modest plywood and hooked up to the gallery's electrical outlets with ordinary plugs and extension cords didn't detract from the magic.
- And it was a Watchdog campaign that led to electrical appliances being sold with fitted plugs.
- The quick-thinking mum also pulled all plugs from electric sockets in the house.
- Eventually I bent one of the pins in the keyboard plug and it had to go.
- And he takes the plug and he plugs it into the generator.
- 2.1
short for spark plug Example sentencesExamples - Consulting the spark plug manufacturers regarding the plug's heat range can be of great help.
- I immediately changed the oil (single most important maintenance task) plugs, distributor cap, rotor arm, and friendly independent VW specialist fixed the exhaust.
- This tells me that both plugs are fired on each cylinder at the same time, but the plugs on each cylinder are fired by two different coils.
- The timing was checked by turning the engine by hand with the plugs out to see if the rotor turns.
- 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.
3informal A piece of publicity promoting a product, event, or establishment. 〈非正式〉（产品、活动或机构的）宣传，广告 he threw in a plug, boasting that the restaurant offered many entrées for under $5 他插入了一个广告，吹嘘该饭店提供许多种价格在五美元以下的主菜肴。 Example sentencesExamples - Product plugs and placements not only reflect societal trends, their entire purpose is to convince consumers that they ‘need’ the good or service portrayed.
- To conclude on an off-topic note, I would like to present you, my tiny and loyal audience, with another of those shameless plugs for interesting friends who have just taken to blogging.
- Last weekend, stunned listeners were treated to a plug for a piece by a former Supreme Court judge.
- I never wanted my blog to be a place where I make shameful plugs for products.
- Some games, while managing to capture the feeling of speed from the movie, sold out their street cred with the number of commercial plugs scattered through the game.
- Of course, I had to get that little plug in there for my big bosses.
- Its good for cricket in East Yorkshire, and the numerous plugs for the game on national radio also gets the town of Hornsea nationwide publicity
- Media outlets are filled with ads, commercial plugs and vapid - or corrosive - content leaving the impression that gifted artists sell out to the almighty dollar sooner or later.
- And you all will have to forgive me for that shameless plug.
- The film is littered with blatant plugs for a variety of brand names.
- On the other hand, the televised games are damaged by the profusion of commercial plugs, logos and the like.
- I'll put in another plug for their courses on tape.
- I don't give plugs as a rule, but I make an honourable exception for the annual Saints & Sinners meeting at Hamilton on Wednesday.
- ‘No free plugs in my paper,’ I was saying to myself in my head.
- Every day there are ‘news items’ in regional news broadcasts about the opening of some new factory, with thinly-veiled plugs for features and benefits of the new product.
- 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.
- What about dumping the crazy-young-doing-crazy-stuff style adverts that dominate on TV today and turning instead to the creation of simple plugs for brands of dry sherry and short breaks to Madeira?
- If you're in the Bay Area, I'm about to make a rare and unusual plug for a Stanford event.
- And while I'm at it, here is another plug for my brother's stained glass studio, Glass Threshold.
- Hey, Carlos, before I get into this next shameless plug, will you join us on the radio again tonight?
Synonyms piece of publicity, favourable mention, advertisement, promotion, recommendation, mention, good word, commercial 4A piece of tobacco cut from a larger cake for chewing. 口嚼烟草块（条） Example sentencesExamples - They both drink from Tom's liquor flask and Casey chews a plug of tobacco.
- 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!
- This type of smokeless tobacco comes in loose leaf, plugs or twists.
- Goya shows them sitting on rocks under a bare tree, cutting plugs of contraband tobacco, with a coil of rope on the ground, handy for tying up victims.
- Rumor had it that he had once given our catcher on the baseball team a big plug of chewing tobacco to try out.
- The whole country divided on the issue of a few plugs of tobacco?
- The Bryants assumed that the children wanted candy, but the mother bought tobacco and gave each a plug; this became their weekly treat.
- They treated the mules as pets, fed them treats, cleaned their stables, treated their sores, and even shared plugs of tobacco with them.
- 4.1also plug tobacco Tobacco in large cakes designed to be cut for chewing.
口嚼烟草饼 Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- 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.’
5Fishing
A lure with one or more hooks attached. 〔渔〕鱼饵 Example sentencesExamples - Spinning artificial lures such as bar spoons and plugs offered great sport and this led some anglers to develop the idea that Atlantic Bass could be caught on an artificial lure and with a fly-rod.
- Carrying plugs festooned with treble hooks is a price that is inevitably paid by the penitent plug fisherman.
- The big rod flexed again and again, driving the plug across the water.
- There is also rock fishing at Europa Point below the Lighthouse for bass fishing, spinners and plugs - though a rubber sand eel on a light trace would be the better bet.
- 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.
Synonyms lure, decoy, fly, troll, jig, teaser 7North American informal A tired or old horse. 〈北美，非正式〉疲惫的马；老马 Example sentencesExamples - He was a hopeless plug and never ran in the money.
Synonyms nag, inferior horse, tired-out horse, worn-out horse, rosinante
verbpləɡpləɡ [with object]1Block or fill in (a hole or cavity) 堵，填（洞，穴） trucks arrived loaded with gravel to plug the hole and clear the road 满载碎石的卡车到了，这些碎石是用来填坑平路的。 Example sentencesExamples - She plugged the drain and waited for clean water to fill up the bath.
- In the past month, the team has added four new starters on offense and perhaps two more on defense, effectively plugging the holes left from a turbulent offseason.
- 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.
- I couldn't work in a situation where I thought I was only here to plug a hole.
- If the defensive holes aren't plugged, the Quakes' season could go down the drain in a hurry.
- It has started preparing next year's budget weeks earlier than usual to ensure it plugs the budget gap in time.
- Using X-ray guidance, the doctor places an expandable disk into the defect, which plugs the hole.
- Rather than sit about and fuss over the ideal way to fix the problem, the group took a quick, short step to plug the hole.
- Mergers such as DaimlerChrysler were carried out to help expand market share, enter new markets, and plug product gaps.
- The city approved a $350,000 grant for the project to plug the gap between the $2.11 million project cost and the $1.76 million in funding sources that already had been identified.
- Thinking again, she plugged the sink's hole, just to be sure.
- Our understanding of each phenomenon is incomplete, but the scientific approach to plugging gaps in our knowledge is not to create a new anti-theory that dismisses the underlying phenomenon.
- She plugs the hole with digested wood known as ‘frass.’
- BMP Additional Commissioner P K Srihari said that officials were working on plugging loopholes in the TDR scheme - to prevent document duplication and use of fake TDR certificates.
- And then, while billions are spent to plug this hole, the excuses will fly fast and far, but the reason will be simple: greed.
- Pheobe plugged the drain in the sink and filled it up with warm water.
- Governor Gray Davis took steps last week to plug some of the holes in that budget, but the measures have been painful.
- The company plugs one hole or advises customers to take a certain measure, and the hackers find four ways around it.
- Some children with congenital heart abnormalities have fine tungsten spirals inserted into the heart to plug small holes between the cavities of the two ventricles.
- So I decided that I should plug this gap in my education and rented a few tapes of big matches to try and figure out how hurling works.
- 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.
Synonyms stop, stop up, seal, seal off, seal up, close, close off, close up, cork, stopper, bung, block, block off, block up, dam, dam up, fill, fill up, pack, stuff - 1.1 Insert (something) into an opening so as to fill it.
插入，塞入 the baby plugged his thumb into his mouth 这个婴儿把大拇指塞进了嘴里。
2informal Mention (a product, event, or establishment) publicly in order to promote it. 〈非正式〉推广，宣传（产品，活动，机构） during the show he plugged his new record 在演出中间，他宣传了他的新唱片。 Example sentencesExamples - Ads plugging the new all-in-one products have already appeared in the press.
- He has expressed his horror that his writings are being plugged on the British National Party website.
- With readers flocking to their Web postings, execs are finding blogs useful for plugging not just their products but their points of view.
- 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.
- She received a massive, multi-million dollar payment to help plug Leitch's upcoming book.
- Wind her up and she plugs your product on promotion tours and TV - all in an ‘honest, objective’ endorsement.
- Excellent material for anyone who does scenario planning - and I'm not just saying that because he plugs Techdirt as a publication he reads.
- The interview does give plenty of background on the director's career, and he gets a change to plug the vastly superior Metropolis at the end.
- The pair have been plugging each other's products for a couple of years now in a bid to try and offer a ‘triple play’ service to rival cablecos NTL and Telewest.
- After the commercial, they plugged the Drowning Pool song.
- What a surprise to see a wallaby had escaped from a marsupial centre in the area, just weeks before the official opening which you obligingly plug the date of.
- When Bitton is not thinking about politics or plugging his documentary, he's poring over ancient manuscripts, books and articles.
- And the girls have been on a promotional tour of Europe, plugging Sound of the Underground.
- No matter what problem a caller has, he will not hesitate to plug some 30 dollar spyware program that probably contains spyware in itself.
- He says that when they approached him to plug the Snout record he gave them a price he knew they could afford.
- The distinctive voice and gripping lyrics of German vocalist and producer Enik have been plugged through his recent vocal work on Funkstorung's album, Disconnected.
- I've plugged Teller's writing on this blog over the years.
- We don't expect him to really use the products he plugs (and indeed, there are so many of them that he'd have to build a new house just for them).
- He sits in a specially provided armchair, in front of display boards plugging the University's mission and achievements.
Synonyms publicize, promote, give publicity to, advertise, mention, give a mention to, write up, build up, bang the drum for, beat the drum for, commend, draw attention to 3North American informal Shoot or hit (someone or something). 〈非正式〉射击，击打 Example sentencesExamples - I was calm, even though someone could try to plug me from that range and have a thirty-to-fifty percent chance of success.
- If he meets Miller in the middle of the desert and plugs him, problem solved.
- 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’.
- Tragically, big brother never gets to see his junior realize his dreams, when he gets fatally plugged by Anonymous Gun-Toting Thief.
- Why doesn't he just jump out and plug me full of lead right now?
- I raised the little .22 and plugged him between the shoulders.
- 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.
- As EastEnders finished last night, the nation exhaled, put the kettle on and began to argue: who plugged Phil Mitchell?
- Quartermain, when told that a fleeing hoodlum is too far to shoot, says, ‘You're right,’ puts on his spectacles, and then plugs the thug in the rear.
Synonyms shoot, hit, shoot down, gun down, pick off 4informal no object, with adverbial Proceed steadily and laboriously with a journey or task. 〈非正式〉艰难地走；埋头于 during the years of poverty, he plugged away at his writing 在贫困的岁月里，他埋头于写作。 Example sentencesExamples - As full time approached they plugged away at the home defence without seriously threatening to break it, until at last the backs found space.
- He told us to just keep plugging away and, if the chances came along, to take them.
- There's more stuff to dispose of before we move, and we'll keep plugging at it.
- I am ready to be converted, however, so keep plugging away Jack.
- But both before and after he takes over, this low-budget Australian comedy plugs along without a single inventive moment.
- Let's say you are plugging away at your current geek-of-the-week task, and for some insane reason, a strange noise starts emitting from the overhead speaker.
- Still plugging away on the book and it's coming along nicely.
- I was ecstatic because for a long time we were teetering on the edge of breakup but always plugged along because we both know our relationship was more unique and stronger than others.
- Can it continue to plug along into the fall?
- Some have dropped down to continue playing, while others have been plugging away outside the limelight for all their careers.
- 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.
- His speech, impaired by Parkinson's, is garbled, but he plugged along.
- In between times, he has plugged away at a steady pace, approaching his work with a measured, thorough approach more dogged than dashing.
- The characters plug along until, as always in the movies, a crisis requires them to re-examine why they are so unhappy and how they got there.
- I just keep on plugging away, doing my thing, forging ahead, etc.
- So you continue to plug away, knowing that the gains you want will come with time.
- It means, rather, that our brains have to keep plugging along, trying to devise hypotheses that more accurately map the causal structure of reality.
- Meanwhile Graham has been plugging on with the task of removing the old kitchen floor covering and applying the new.
- And you just keep plugging away and see wonderful things when you continue.
- Cultivating the spirit of perseverance, they keep plugging grimly along, clinging to the hope that this will eventually do them some good.
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
PhrasesProvide something that is lacking in a particular situation. the new sanctions are meant to plug the gaps in the trade embargo 〈喻〉这些新制裁旨在堵住贸易禁运中的漏洞。 Example sentencesExamples - The council is currently recruiting up to 20 front-line staff from Canada to help plug the gaps.
- Xuan even contemplated trying to find workers outside China to plug the gap.
- They say they are already considering raiding the savings of cash rich schools to plug the gap.
- The problem then is finding someone to plug the gap.
- The Treasury is understood to have allocated an extra 60 million to DCMS to help plug the gap.
- Thus far, the United States has had no problem attracting money from abroad to plug the gaps.
- New staff recruited from Britain could also be offered £2,000 "golden hellos" under a package of measures to plug the gaps.
- Britain's banks are in no position to plug the gap.
- Any chance of a fightback was quickly quashed by Keighley's defence who plugged the gaps.
- Meanwhile, Lee rushed up reserves to plug the gap.
Phrasal VerbsConnect an electrical appliance to a power supply by inserting a plug into an outlet. （将插头插入插座以）给…接通电源；接通电源 Example sentencesExamples - He said he objected when he was first asked if a radio could be plugged in during lessons.
- No warning appears if no power connector is plugged in, and the performance of the card is the same either way.
- When I first purchased my computer, I thought that all I needed to do was plug it in, connect it to the phone line, and everything would be OK.
- The son runs to the TV, plugs it in, and soon the whole family is tuned in.
- Since then, I always check for water on the floor when I plug appliances in.
- But a laptop, even if it was plugged in, would just react to the mains cutoff by switching to its internal battery.
- You don't plug the electric system in to recharge - it does this itself during the drive, even using energy from the braking system.
- To start, simply mount the transformer near a grounded outdoor electrical outlet and plug it in.
- The Crickets came on stage and Sonny Curtis struck a chord, part warm-up, part check the guitar is plugged in, part, perhaps, unconscious pre-performance ritual.
- All you do is plug the machine in, switch it to Auto and you're all set to start protecting your private information.
1(of an electrical appliance) be connected to another appliance by a plug inserted in an outlet. （电器）连接 Example sentencesExamples - The receiver plugs into the controller socket and must match the channel number you're using.
- The trigger set plugs into the computer's serial port and includes a hand glove and a footpad.
- Very simplified, it's the speed that the CPU socket, where it plugs into the motherboard, runs at.
- These can be stand-alone systems or they can be a component that plugs into your computer.
- These CPUs plugged into a socket called Socket 754.
- This comes with some electric cord that plugs into the camera body and has a shoe plate at the end of it that slips over the foot of your flash.
- It's really the simplest thing - a small, high quality screen which plugs into the phone socket.
- The downside is that a Socket 940 CPU won't plug into a Socket 939 motherboard, or vice versa.
- This gives customers a fairly painless way to double the processor count of their servers, as the module plugs into existing sockets.
- This comes into my computer via a modem which plugs into a USB socket.
- 1.1Gain or have access to a system of computerized information.
接入（电脑信息系统） we plug into the research facilities available at the institute 我们接入了学院的研究设施。 Example sentencesExamples - People who use the Internet are interested in fast responses, so they plug into that speed-driven system and find what they want.
- Most, she believes, will be ‘virtual’ adventurers, plugging into computer-simulated cyber-trips rendered with astonishing clarity.
- Ideally, anyone plugged into the system should be able to go down the checklist and create a desired result.
- It seems that our whole economy is being run by groups of people gathered in grey buildings on the edges of towns plugged into phone systems.
- So, whereas this process used to keep her informed of what was going on, it almost immediately becomes common knowledge to those plugged into the website.
- Will it be possible for Movable Type and TypePad users to plug into a non-SixApart authentication system?
- And that is what we're doing with the police department, being able to plug into their system of receivers that enhance the signal under those difficult conditions and send it on.
- If British troops are to fight ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with the Americans, then they have to be plugged into the same hi-tech systems.
- Will it be possible for Radio users to plug into a non-Userland scripting system?
- For example, when people join the evolt mailing list, they're instantly plugged into vast amounts of knowledge for free.
- 1.2Become knowledgeable about and involved with.
〈喻〉熟悉，非常了解 the workshops are a great way to plug into radical ideas and radical groups Example sentencesExamples - For Lischner, the experience of being plugged into an existing team showed other potential hiring weaknesses.
- As such, it can be enjoyed by regular cinema-goers and loved by eager fans if they plug into the nostalgia for the defining cinematic experience they had in 1991.
- Keep tabs on all the latest position battles and injury information, stay plugged into training camp developments, and adjust your rankings accordingly.
- In order to charge things up, to imbue them with our good will and intention, we need to feel connected and plugged into the energy of the earth.
- Upmarket furniture dealers have also plugged into the trend, setting up experience centres to create a live-in ambience for various rooms.
- The public is more plugged into what's happening in the second leg, and former optimism begins to turn to questioning and even gloom.
- Far from being crazy, the oil executive had simply been citing what was common knowledge to anyone properly plugged into the pace of events in southern Africa.
- In the world of elite sport, knowledge is power, as increasingly coaches and administrators are plugging into high-tech strategies to boost performance.
- Instead of plugging into the boob tube, I chose to increase my study of our ancient and holy Jewish texts and plug into a fountain of spiritual knowledge.
OriginEarly 17th century: from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German plugge, of unknown ultimate origin. |