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Plug vs Dottle - What's the difference?

plug | dottle |

As nouns the difference between plug and dottle

is that plug is (electricity) a pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket while dottle is a plug or tap of a vessel.

As a verb plug

is to stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

plug

English

(wikipedia plug)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.
    • I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.
  • Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
    • Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain.
  • (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
    • He preferred a plug of tobacco to loose chaw.
  • (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
  • (US, slang) A worthless horse.
    • That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!
  • (construction) 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.
  • (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
    • Pressure built beneath the plug in the caldera, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion of pyroclastic shrapnel and ash.
  • (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
    • The fisherman cast the plug into a likely pool, hoping to catch a whopper.
  • (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.

    • Synonyms

    * (hole filler) bung, stopper * (worthless horse) dobbin, hack, jade, nag

    Derived terms

    * butt-plug * breech plug * bridge plug * fire plug * glow plug * hawse plug * plugboard * plug and feather * plug centerbit * plug rod * plug valve * spark plug

    Coordinate terms

    * (worthless horse) bum (racing )

    Verb

    (plugg)
  • To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
    • He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.
  • 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.
  • (informal) To persist or continue with something.
    • Keep plugging at the problem until you find a solution.
  • To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
  • * 1884,
    • I am awfully glad that you kept your nerve and plugged him; it would have been better if you could have nailed him through the right shoulder, which would not have killed him...
  • (slang) to have sex with, penetrate sexually.
    • I'd love to plug her.

    Related terms

    * plug in * unplug

    Anagrams

    * gulp ----

    dottle

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plug or tap of a vessel.
  • A small rounded lump or mass.
  • The still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe.
  • *1957 , Lawrence Durrell, Justine , Faber p. 96:
  • *:one hand guards the burning dottle of my pipe from the force of the wind
  • *1981 , John Gardner, Freddy's Book , Abacus 1982, p. 38:
  • *:I clenched my pipe in my right fist and poked at the dottle busily with various fingers, first one then another, of my left hand.
  • *1984 , , page 89:
    • He tapped out the dottle on the deck, locked the steering oar in position, and commenced repacking his pipe.
  • *2010 , Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles :
  • *:I fiddle and scrape and poke for a while, banging out the dottle from my previous pipeful into an ashtray and puffing down the stem like a horn player warming up his trumpet.
  • (Geordie) A baby's dummy, pacifier.

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