Define the word plugging"Plugging" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Plug \Plug\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plugged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Plugging.]
To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
[1913 Webster]
2. To briefly publicize or advertise, especially during a
public event not specifically intended for advertising
purposes; as, during the interview he plugged his new
book.
Syn: put in a plug for.
[PJC]
"Plugging" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Plugging \Plug"ging\, n.
1. The act of stopping with a plug.
[1913 Webster]
2. The material of which a plug or stopple is made.
[1913 Webster]
"plugging" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
plug
n 1: blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole
tightly [syn: stopper, stopple]
2: a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew, chaw,
cud, quid, wad]
3: blatant or sensational promotion [syn: ballyhoo, hoopla,
hype]
4: electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an
internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of
an electric spark [syn: spark plug, sparking plug]
5: an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted
in a socket to make an electrical connection [syn: male plug]
6: an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a
fire [syn: fireplug, fire hydrant]
7: an old or over-worked horse [syn: hack, jade, nag]
v 1: fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug; "plug the
hole"; "stop up the leak" [syn: stop up, secure]
2: persist in working hard; "Students must plug away at this
problem" [syn: plug away]
3: deliver a quick blow to; "he punched me in the stomach"
[syn: punch]
4: make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or
promote
[also: plugging, plugged]
"plugging" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
plugging
See plug
"plugging" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
132 Moby Thesaurus words for "plugging":
application, assiduity, assiduous, assiduousness, bulldog tenacity,
concentration, constancy, constant, continuing, diligence,
diligent, dogged, dogged perseverance, doggedness, donkeywork,
drudge, drudgery, drudging, endurance, enduring, engrossment,
faithful, fidelity, grind, grinding, grubbing, hardworking,
immutable, inalterable, indefatigability, indefatigable,
indomitable, industrious, industriousness, industry, insistence,
insistency, insistent, invincible, labor, laboring, lasting, loyal,
loyalty, moil, never-tiring, obstinacy, obstinate, patience,
patience of Job, patient, patient as Job, pegging, permanence,
permanent, perseverance, perseverant, persevering, persistence,
persistency, persistent, persisting, pertinacious,
pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plodding, preoccupation,
preoccupied, rapt, relentless, relentlessness, resolute,
resolution, sedulity, sedulous, sedulousness, single-minded,
single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slavery, slaving,
sleepless, slogging, stability, stable, stamina, staying power,
steadfast, steadfastness, steadiness, steady, stick-to-itiveness,
straining, striving, struggling, stubborn, stubbornness, sweating,
tenacious, tenaciousness, tenacity, tireless, tirelessness, toil,
toiling, unabating, unconquerable, undaunted, undiscouraged,
undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching,
unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting,
unremitting, unremittingness, unsleeping, unswerving,
unswerving attention, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying,
unwinking, utterly attentive, weariless, working
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