plug – English noun declension

English noun forms of plug

Noun: plug
Singularplug
Pluralplugs

Sample Sentences

  • I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.
  • Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain.
  • Near-synonym: chewing tobacco
  • He preferred a plug to snuff.
  • He preferred plug to snuff.
  • That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!
  • Stack all new and fresh, composed of the fast-selling standard books only — no old plugs or unsalable books whatever. [1886, The Publishers Weekly, volume 29, page 25:]
  • Many New York booksellers promoted the impression that Quaritch had sent only 'plugs' (i.e. unsaleable books). [1997, The Book Collector, volume 46, page 184:]
  • 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.
  • I just wanted to […] give a plug to Disney World […] [1956 November 11, 22:37 from the start, in Franklin Heller, director, What's My Line?, season 8, episode 11, spoken by Bennett Cerf:]
  • Department store decorations up before Thanksgiving, Christmas cards all over the place, TV full of plugs for fifty-dollar toys that inner-city kids watching can never expect to receive, parents spending what they can't afford and deluging their kids with the annual orgy of materialist values […] [1973 December 8, A. Nolder Gay, “Coping With Christmas”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 25, page 3:]
  • Pressure built beneath the plug in the caldera, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion of pyroclastic shrapnel and ash.
  • The fisherman cast the plug into a likely pool, hoping to catch a whopper.
  • He saw me catch a trap and leave the house of a drug dealer. That's why he targeted me. He could have easily blown my ass off right then and there for lying, but for some reason he didn't. He just left. I biked back to my plug's spot and told him […] [2017, Gucci Mane, Neil Martinez-Belkin, The Autobiography of Gucci Mane, page 32:]
  • Add front and aft closures to the fuselage midsection. Addition or subtraction of fuselage plugs, to a maximum of five rows, conveniently distributed on each side of wing, is possible. [2010, Ajoy Kumar Kundu, Aircraft Design, page 165:]
  • I changed the plugs and the coil packs.

Etymology

1. 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.
2. 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”). See: Dutch Nouns 'plug', Dutch Nouns 'plag', German Nouns 'Pflock'.

Verbs referencing "plug"

French Nouns plug, Italian Nouns plugo, German Nouns Pflock.