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(verb) persist in working hard; "Students must plug away at this problem" |
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Synonyms: plug away |
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Related Words: hang in, hang on, hold on, persevere, persist |
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(verb) make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote |
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Related Words: advertize, promote, push |
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(verb) fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug; "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak" |
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Synonyms: secure, stop up |
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Related Words: chink, close, cork, cork up, fill, fill up, stopper |
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(noun) a object designed to fill a hole tightly |
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Synonyms: stopper, stopple |
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Related Words: block, blockage, bung, closure, cork, drainplug, fipple, occlusion, spigot, spile, stop, stoppage, tampon, tap |
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(noun) a device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection |
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Synonyms: male plug |
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Related Words: electrical device, phone plug, telephone plug |
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(verb) deliver a punch to |
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Synonyms: punch |
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Related Words: hit |
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(noun) an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire |
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Synonyms: fire hydrant, fireplug |
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Related Words: hydrant |
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(noun) fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark |
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Synonyms: spark plug, sparking plug |
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Related Words: electrical device |
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(noun) an old or over-worked horse |
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Synonyms: hack, jade, nag |
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Related Words: Equus caballus, horse |
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(noun) blatant or sensational promotion |
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Synonyms: ballyhoo, hoopla, hype |
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Related Words: promotion, promotional material, publicity |
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(noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco |
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Synonyms: chaw, chew, cud, quid, wad |
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Related Words: bit, bite, morsel |
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