Plug vs Pace - What's the difference?
plug | pace | Related terms |
(electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.
Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
(US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
(US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
(US, slang) A worthless horse.
(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.
(geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
(fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
(horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
(informal) To persist or continue with something.
To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
* 1884,
(slang) to have sex with, penetrate sexually.
(obsolete) Passage, route.
# (obsolete) One's journey or route.
# (obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc.
#* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
# (obsolete) An aisle in a church.
Step.
# A step taken with the foot.
# The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.
Way of stepping.
# A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.
#* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 9
, author=Owen Phillips
, title=Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark
, work=BBC Sport
# Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.
Speed or velocity in general.
(cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.
The collective noun for donkeys.
* 1952 , G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe , The Macmillan Company (1952), page 29:
* 2006 , "
* 2007 , Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses , Pineapple Press (2007), ISBN 9781561643905,
(cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.
Walk to and fro in a small space.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
Set the speed in a race.
Measure by walking.
Plug is a related term of pace.
As a noun plug
is (electricity) a pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.As a verb plug
is to stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.As a proper noun pace is
.plug
English
(wikipedia plug)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- He preferred a plug of tobacco to loose chaw.
- That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!
- During the interview, the author put in a plug for his latest novel.
- 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.
Synonyms
* (hole filler) bung, stopper * (worthless horse) dobbin, hack, jade, nagDerived terms
* butt-plug * breech plug * bridge plug * fire plug * glow plug * hawse plug * plugboard * plug and feather * plug centerbit * plug rod * plug valve * spark plugCoordinate terms
* (worthless horse) bum (racing )Verb
(plugg)- He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.
- The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.
- Keep plugging at the problem until you find a solution.
- 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...
- I'd love to plug her.
Anagrams
* gulp ----pace
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pas, (etyl) pas, and their source, (etyl) passus.Noun
(en noun)- But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...].
How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement: English Customary Weights and Measures, © Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (§: Distance , ¶ ? 6)
- Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor.
- I have perambulated your field, and estimate its perimeter to be 219 paces .
citation, page= , passage=Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.}}
- but at Broadstairs and other places along the coast, a pace of donkeys stood on the sea-shore expectant (at least, their owners were expectant) of children clamouring to ride.
Drop the dead donkeys", The Economist , 9 November 2006:
- A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.
page 200:
- Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering'' of chicks, ''pace'' of donkeys, ''troop'' of horses, and ''fold of sheep.
Derived terms
* pace car * pacemaker * pace setter * pacerAdjective
(-)Verb
(pac)- Groups of men, in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting, or pacing up and down.