| plug | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. plug, stopper, stopple | blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly. |
| ~ blockage, stoppage, occlusion, closure, block, stop | an obstruction in a pipe or tube.; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" |
| ~ bung, spile | a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask. |
| ~ bottle cork, cork | the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle). |
| ~ drainplug | a removable plug for holding water in a tub or basin. |
| ~ earplug | a plug of cotton, wax, or rubber that is fitted into the ear canal for protection against the entry of water or loud noise. |
| ~ fipple | a wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder). |
| ~ tampion, tompion | plug for the muzzle of a gun to keep out dust and moisture. |
| ~ tampon | plug of cotton or other absorbent material; inserted into wound or body cavity to absorb exuded fluids (especially blood). |
| ~ spigot, tap | a plug for a bunghole in a cask. |
| n. (food) | 2. chaw, chew, cud, plug, quid, wad | a wad of something chewable as tobacco. |
| ~ bite, morsel, bit | a small amount of solid food; a mouthful.; "all they had left was a bit of bread" |
| n. (communication) | 3. ballyhoo, hoopla, hype, plug | blatant or sensational promotion. |
| ~ promotion, promotional material, publicity, packaging | a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution.; "the packaging of new ideas" |
| n. (artifact) | 4. plug, spark plug, sparking plug | electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark. |
| ~ electrical device | a device that produces or is powered by electricity. |
| ~ ignition system, ignition | the mechanism that ignites the fuel in an internal-combustion engine. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. male plug, plug | an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection. |
| ~ electrical device | a device that produces or is powered by electricity. |
| ~ phone plug, telephone plug | a plug for connecting a telephone. |
| n. (artifact) | 6. fire hydrant, fireplug, plug | an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire. |
| ~ hydrant | a discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks. |
| n. (animal) | 7. hack, jade, nag, plug | an old or over-worked horse. |
| ~ equus caballus, horse | solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times. |
| v. (contact) | 8. plug, secure, stop up | fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug.; "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak" |
| ~ stopper, stopple | close or secure with or as if with a stopper.; "She stoppered the wine bottle"; "The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers" |
| ~ infix, insert, introduce, enter | put or introduce into something.; "insert a picture into the text" |
| ~ tampon | plug with a tampon. |
| ~ fill up, close | fill or stop up.; "Can you close the cracks with caulking?" |
| ~ chink | fill the chinks of, as with caulking. |
| ~ cork, cork up | close a bottle with a cork. |
| v. (change) | 9. plug, plug away | persist in working hard.; "Students must plug away at this problem" |
| ~ hang in, persevere, hang on, persist, hold on | be persistent, refuse to stop.; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions" |
| v. (contact) | 10. plug, punch | deliver a quick blow to.; "he punched me in the stomach" |
| ~ hit | deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument.; "He hit her hard in the face" |
| v. (communication) | 11. plug | make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote. |
| ~ advertize, advertise, promote, push | make publicity for; try to sell (a product).; "The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model"; "The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops" |
| v. (change) | 12. plug | insert a plug into.; "plug the wall" |
| ~ put in, inclose, insert, stick in, introduce, enclose | introduce.; "Insert your ticket here" |
| ~ plug | insert as a plug.; "She plugged a cork in the wine bottle" |
| v. (change) | 13. plug | insert as a plug.; "She plugged a cork in the wine bottle" |
| ~ put in, inclose, insert, stick in, introduce, enclose | introduce.; "Insert your ticket here" |
| ~ plug | insert a plug into.; "plug the wall" |
| riffle | | |
| n. (event) | 1. riffle, ripple, rippling, wavelet | a small wave on the surface of a liquid. |
| ~ moving ridge, wave | one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water). |
| n. (act) | 2. riffle | shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners. |
| ~ shuffle, make, shuffling | the act of mixing cards haphazardly. |
| v. (contact) | 3. flick, riffle, ruffle | twitch or flutter.; "the paper flicked" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| v. (perception) | 4. flick, flip, leaf, riff, riffle, thumb | look through a book or other written material.; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume" |
| ~ peruse | examine or consider with attention and in detail.; "Please peruse this report at your leisure" |
| v. (motion) | 5. cockle, riffle, ripple, ruffle, undulate | stir up (water) so as to form ripples. |
| ~ fold, fold up, turn up | bend or lay so that one part covers the other.; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar" |
| ~ flow, flux | move or progress freely as if in a stream.; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium" |
| v. (contact) | 6. riffle | shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix. |
| ~ card game, cards | a game played with playing cards. |
| ~ shuffle, mix, ruffle | mix so as to make a random order or arrangement.; "shuffle the cards" |
| shuffle | | |
| n. (act) | 1. make, shuffle, shuffling | the act of mixing cards haphazardly. |
| ~ reordering | a rearrangement in a different order. |
| ~ reshuffling, reshuffle | shuffling again.; "the gambler demanded a reshuffle" |
| ~ riffle | shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners. |
| ~ card game, cards | a game played with playing cards. |
| n. (act) | 2. shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling | walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet.; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old" |
| ~ walk, walking | the act of traveling by foot.; "walking is a healthy form of exercise" |
| v. (motion) | 3. scuffle, shamble, shuffle | walk by dragging one's feet.; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall" |
| ~ walk | use one's feet to advance; advance by steps.; "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet" |
| ~ scuff, drag | walk without lifting the feet. |
| v. (motion) | 4. shuffle | move about, move back and forth.; "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS" |
| ~ shift, transfer | move around.; "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket" |
| v. (contact) | 5. mix, ruffle, shuffle | mix so as to make a random order or arrangement.; "shuffle the cards" |
| ~ manipulate | hold something in one's hands and move it. |
| ~ reshuffle | shuffle again.; "So as to prevent cheating, he was asked to reshuffle the cards" |
| ~ riffle | shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix. |
| ~ cut | divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult.; "Wayne cut"; "She cut the deck for a long time" |
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