Word Meanings - PLUG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails. Fire plug, a street hydrant to which hose may be attached. -- Hawse plug , a plug to stop a hawse hole. -- Plug and feather. See Feather, n., 7. -- Plug centerbit, a centerbit ending

Additional info about word: PLUG

A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails. Fire plug, a street hydrant to which hose may be attached. -- Hawse plug , a plug to stop a hawse hole. -- Plug and feather. See Feather, n., 7. -- Plug centerbit, a centerbit ending in a small cylinder instead of a point, so as to follow and enlarge a hole previously made, or to form a counterbore around it. -- Plug rod , a rod attached to the beam for working the valves, as in the Cornish engine. -- Plug valve , a tapering valve, which turns in a case like the plug of a faucet. (more info) 1. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple. 2. A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco. 3. A high, tapering silk hat. 4. A worthless horse.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PLUG)

• Stop Close
• obstruct
• plug
• cork
• bar
• seal
• arrest
• suspend
• end
• rest
• halt
• hinder
• suppress
• delay
• cease
• terminate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PLUG)

• Release
• dismiss
• liberate
• free
• discharge
• expedite

Related words: (words related to PLUG)

• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• OBSTRUCTIVE
  Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment. -- Ob*struct"ive*ly, adv.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• TERMINATE
  1. To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop short; to end; to cease; as, the torrid zone terminates at the tropics. 2. To come to a limit in time; to end; to close. The wisdom of this world, its designs and efficacy, terminate
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
• ARRESTIVE
  Tending to arrest. McCosh.
• CEASELESS
  Without intermission or end.
• CLOSEFISTED
  Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
• OBSTRUCTIONIST
  One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. -- a.
• HINDEREST
  Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer.
• OBSTRUCTER
  One who obstructs or hinders.
• ARRESTEE
  The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.
• OBSTRUCT
  before or against, to obstruct; ob + struere to pile up. 1. To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing; as, to obstruct a street;
• HINDERMOST; HINDMOST
  Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2. (more info) superlative from the same source as the comparative hinder. See
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• CLOSEN
  To make close.
• CLOSER
  The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course. Gwilt. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot. 2. A finisher; that which finishes
• EXPEDITELY
  In expedite manner; expeditiously.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• INTERMINATED
  Interminable; interminate; endless; unending. Akenside.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• DISTERMINATE
  Separated by bounds. Bp. Hall.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• INSUPPRESSIVE
  Insuppressible. "The insuppressive mettle of our spirits." Shak.
• DELIBERATELY
  With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.