Plug vs Pipe - What's the difference?
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(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.
(lb) Wind instrument.
# (lb) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
# (lb) A hollow tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
# The key or sound of the voice.
# A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
#* (1809-1892)
(lb) Hollow conduit.
# A rigid tube that transports water, steam
# A tubular passageway in the human body; the windpipe, a blood vessel.
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#* 1818' September 26, ''(Sydney Gazette)'', on (William Bland) being convicted of libelling in a '''pipe , quoted in 2004, Michael Connor (editor), ''More Pig Bites Baby! Stories from Australia?s First Newspaper , Vol.2 (Duffy and Snellgrove, ISBN 1-876631-91-0):
# A man's penis.
#* 2006 , Monique A. Williams, Neurotica: an Honest Examination Into Urban Sexual Relations ,
#* 2010 , Eric Summers, Teammates ,
#* 2011 , Mickey Erlach, Gym Buddies & Buff Boys ,
(lb) Container.
# A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially, a vat or cask of wine or cider.
#* 1846 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘(The Cask of Amontillado)’:
# The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure; sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
#* 1882 , James Edwin (Thorold Rogers), A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , p.205:
(lb) Something resembling a tube.
# Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, pillows, curtains, etc.); often a contrasting color.
# (lb) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
# (lb) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano, through which magma has passed; often filled with volcanic breccia.
# (lb) In computing.
## The character (pipe) .
## A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
## (lb) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
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# A type of pasta, similar to macaroni.
# (lb) One of the goalposts of the goal.
(lb) Smoking implement.
# (lb) A hollow stem with bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
## The use of such a pipe for smoking tobacco.
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To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
To install or configure with pipes.
To play music on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe.
(nautical) To signal or order by a note pattern on a bosun's pipe.
(figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
To decorate with piping.
* 1998 , Merehurst Staff, Nicholas Lodge, Janice Murfitt, Graham Tann, The international school of sugarcraft: Beginners (page 108)
To dab away moisture from.
* 1883:
To shout loudly and at high pitch.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
(transitive, computing, chiefly, Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character at the command line.
To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
* Wordsworth
To become hollow in the process of solidifying; said of an ingot of metal.
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 pipe is
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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 ----pipe
English
(wikipedia pipe)Noun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- the earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
- yet, it is much to be hoped, that from his example pipe -making will in future be reposed solely in the hands of Mr. William Cluer[an earthenware pipe maker] of the Brickfield Hill.
p.7:
- He grabs my legs and throws them over his shoulders, putting his big pipe inside me
p.90:
- He punctuated his demand with a deep thrust up CJ's hole. His giant pipe drove almost all the way in, pulsing against his fingers beside it.
p.64:
- He laughed as he knelt down between Duncan's splayed thighs and tore open a packaged condom, then rolled it down over his big fuck-pipe .
- I said to him — “My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking to-day! But I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts.”
- Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* airpipe * anonymous pipe * blowpipe * boatswain's pipe * churchwarden pipe * crack-pipe * crosspipe * pitch pipe * drainage pipe * dutchman's pipe * food pipe * half-pipe * hawse pipe * hashpipe * hornpipe * hosepipe * named pipe * organ pipe * panpipe * peace pipe * pipelike * pipeline * pipesmoke * pipe cleaner * pipe dream * pipe wrench * quarter-pipe * set of pipes * smokepipe * soil pipe * standpipe * steampipe * stopped pipe * stovepipe * superpipe * waste pipe * water pipe * windpipeVerb
(pip)- This means a quantity of runouts can be made in advance, allowing more time to flat ice and pipe the cake.
- Our chimney was a square hole in the roof: it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.
- "Ar-cher! Ja-cob!" Johnny piped after her, pivoting round on his heel
- oft in the piping shrouds