to plug

Определение to plug в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it
The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.; A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails; A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features one or more of these
During the interview, the author put in a plug for his latest novel.; To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole
He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.; {n} a stopple; {v} to stop with a plug; (fishing) Plugs are a popular type of hard-bodied fishing lure. They are widely known by a number of other names depending on the country and region. Such names include crankbait, wobbler, minnow, shallow-diver and deep-diver. The term minnow is usually used for long, slender, lures that imitate baitfish, while the term plug is usually used for shorter, deeper-bodied lures which imitate deeper-bodied fish, frogs and other prey. Shallow-diver and deep-diver refer to the diving capabilities of the lure, which depends on the size of the bib and lure buoyancy; A plug is an electric socket; A plug is a small, round piece of wood, plastic, or wax which is used to block holes. A plug had been inserted in the drill hole; To mention a particular product or service; A plug is a thick, circular piece of rubber or plastic that you use to block the hole in a bath or sink when it is filled with water. She put the plug in the sink and filled it with cold water; To shoot a bullet into something with a gun; {i} cork, stopper, stopple; rubber stopper for a sink; electrical connector; dongle (Computers); obstruction, block; lumpy mass that obstructs an opening (Medicine); fire hydrant; advertisement; tampon (Slang); occurrence of sexual intercourse (Slang); A worthless horse; a seedling grown in a small container under carefully controlled (nursery) conditions When seedlings are removed from containers for planting, the nursery soil remains bound up in their roots See Bareroot seedling; A metal deposited in a connecting via hole The metal interconnect plugs provide linkage between the conducting layers of a multilayer-metal IC device; an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire; A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails; The part of a cylinder containing the keyway and with tumbler chambers usually corresponding to those in the cylinder body; Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple; A male component of a plug/jack connector system In premises wiring, a plug provides the means for a user to connect communications equipment to the communications outlet; deliver a quick blow to; "he punched me in the stomach"; The connector used to connect trailer wiring to a tow vehicle; The half of a connector that is normally movable and is generally attached to a cable or removable subassembly Plugs are inserted in sockets to link devices together; {f} cap, cork; stop up, block; publicize, advertise; punch, hit (Slang); shoot a person with a gun (USA Slang); A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape; blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection persist in working hard; "Students must plug away at this problem"; The part of the two mating halves of a connector which is moveable when not fastened to the other mating half; A plug on a piece of electrical equipment is a small plastic object with two or three metal pins which fit into the holes of an electric socket and connects the equipment to the electricity supply; make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug; "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak; A cell of personnel that provide a specific mission capability not organic to the SJFHQ; make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote; To persist or continue with something; If someone plugs a commercial product, especially a book or a film, they praise it in order to encourage people to buy it or see it because they have an interest in it doing well. We did not want people on the show who are purely interested in plugging a book or film. = promote Plug is also a noun. Let's do this show tonight and it'll be a great plug, a great promotion. see also earplug, spark plug; Concentrated amount of a contaminant or contaminants existing in soil or groundwater; If someone in a position of power pulls the plug on a project or on someone's activities, they use their power to stop them continuing. The banks have the power to pull the plug on the project; A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco; Similar to interconnects, but vertically (rather than horizontally) aid in connecting various levels in the intergrated circuits Consist of a metal filling (often tungsten) in a hole etched through a layer of insulator back to top; A plug identifies a particular node's attribute It is used to access a specific node's attribute values; A male connector; A high, tapering silk hat; blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly; Solidified lava that fills the conduit of a volcano It is usually more resistant to erosion than the material making up the surrounding cone, and may remain standing as a solitary pinnacle when the rest of the original structure has eroded away; A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks; cement, grout, or other material used to fill and seal a hole drilled for a water well; A seedling grown in a small container, under carefully controlled (nursery) conditions When seedlings are removed from containers for planting, the nursery soil remains bound up in their roots; Seal off formations to stop open communication of formation fluids within a well; persist in working hard; "Students must plug away at this problem"; A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket; an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection; an old or over-worked horse; a wad of something chewable as tobacco; fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug; "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak"; If you plug a hole, you block it with something. Crews are working to plug a major oil leak; electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark; - A favorable mention or a picture of a product in the non-advertising portion of a media presentation Examples of plugs are a Cheerio's box visible on a breakfast table in a film, a character in a TV movie drinking a Coca-Cola, or James Bond driving a BMW; Rubber block marked to indicate hat size; The part of the lock that you put the key into, and which turns to operate the lock; In the context of system modeling, the point at which an active object is connected to a channel; transfer objects are sent to/sent from this point GRADE generates plugs automatically; you may need to create them manually only in rare, complex cases; To stop the flow of oil from one stratum to another in connection with the abandoning of a well; A device with male contacts intended for insertion into a receptacle to establish electrical connection between the attached flexible cord and the conductors connected to the receptacle; A rod, plate, or angle welded between a two angle web member or between a top or bottom chord panel to tie them together usually located at the middle of the member See Tie or Filler; A device used for connecting conductors to a jack It is typically used on one or both ends of equipment cords or on wiring for interconnects or cross-connects; blatant or sensational promotion