Plugging

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  plugging
       See {plug}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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