Plug vs Vote - 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.
A formalized choice on matters of administration or other democratic activities.
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An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot.
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*:The freeman casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
(label) An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.
:(Massinger)
To cast a vote; to assert a formalised choice in an election.
* F. W. Robertson
As verbs the difference between plug and vote
is that plug is to stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole while vote is .As a noun plug
is (electricity) a pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.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 ----vote
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* donkey vote * conscience vote * free vote * get out the vote * informal vote * subvote * vote mob * whipped voteVerb
(vot)- The depository may vote shares on behalf of investors who have not submitted instruction to the bank.
- To vote' on large principles, to ' vote honestly, requires a great amount of information.