plug

CEFRB1

/plʌɡ/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A device that connects electrical equipment to a power supply.

  2. 02

    verb

    To fill a hole or connect something to power.

Examples

  • Do not defeat the safety purpose of the polarized or grounding-type plug.

  • The iron is fitted with a three-pin plug.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.

  2. A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.

  3. An electric socket: wall plug.

More examples

In context

  • Let's plug up the hole.

  • He preferred a plug of tobacco to loose chaw.

  • I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Dutch plug, from Middle Dutch plugge (“peg, plug”), from Old Dutch *pluggi, from Proto-West Germanic *plugi. Further origin unknown. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz, but the word seems originally restricted to northern continental West Germanic. Perhaps ultimately from the same source as Dutch plag (“cut-out sod”), itself considered to be from a substrate. Compare German Low German Plüg, Norwegian plug (“peg, wedge”, probably borrowed from Middle Low German), German Pflock (“peg”, restricted to Central German and phonetically divergent). Possibly akin to Lithuanian plúkti (“to strike, hew”).