Plug \Plug\, n. [Akin to D. plug, G. pflock, Dan. pl["o]k, plug, Sw. plugg; cf. W. ploc.] 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. [U. S.]
3. A high, tapering silk hat. [Slang, U.S.]
4. A worthless horse. [Slang, U.S.]
5. (Building) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.
{Breech plug} (Gun.), in breech-loading guns, the metal plug or cylinder which closes the aperture in the breech, through which the gun is loaded.
{Fire plug}, a street hydrant to which hose may be attached. [U. S.]
{Hawse plug} (Naut.), a plug to stop a hawse hole.
{Plug and feather}. (Stone Working) 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} (Steam Eng.), a rod attached to the beam for working the valves, as in the Cornish engine.
{Plug valve} (Mech.), a tapering valve, which turns in a case like the plug of a faucet.
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.
There appears to be growing sentiment in Congress to plug this loophole, while giving regulators more time to determine the potential competitive impact of proposed takeovers.
"We're also saving a tremendous amount of money," he says. "With `Mama's Family,' all we do is plug it into a tape machine.
But potential losses mount when the cost of war coverage, and the lost opportunities to plug midseason replacements, are added in.
"Anybody who says the president pulled the plug is completely and totally wrong," said White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker.
China has tried to blacklist French makers over the sale of Mirage jets to Taiwan last year. Both Airbus and Boeing want Chinese sales to plug the gap in aircraft deliveries over the next two to three years until profits at western airlines recover.
While Pepsi has Mr. Tyson in its corner, Coke has another media star waiting in the wings to plug Diet Coke: Roger Rabbit, the animated character from the new cartoon-and-live action movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
Last month, he proved he can plug a loophole as fast as any of his predecessors.
So, Federal Express readily agreed to donate the logos, labels and packages in return for the free plug.
This plug for stocks shows up in what might seem an unlikely place: the April issue of Drexel Burnham Lambert's High Yield Newsletter.
Instead of pouring costly petrol down its gullet, you would just plug it into the mains overnight and recharge its batteries on a few pence worth of off-peak electricity. How nice if this town motorist's dream came true in 1994.
The regulation forced a company to connect its network to anyone who wanted to plug in.
The latter is showing 14th and 15th century bronze objects from the Lower Niger and some outstanding wooden Sepik sculptures from New Guinea - one, a bird-like flute plug, was held to embody the voice of an ancestor.
Crews operating from the support vessel Tharos installed the final cement plug Sunday, Occidental Petroleum said in a statement.
Remove spark plug and replace it with a new one every year. Be sure to set the correct spark plug gap.
Remove spark plug and replace it with a new one every year. Be sure to set the correct spark plug gap.
They turned to real estate, leveraged buy-outs and other high-risk adventures to plug that gap. The disastrous outcome raises important questions about the nature of banking and of banking regulation.
During negotiations, the producer Michael Peyser refused to alter the characters' dialogue to plug Eastern Airlines' flights through Atlanta.
After the debacle of 1989, its renewed ambition to be privatised seems more than a little fanciful. Solid progress has, however, been made since the plug was pulled on nuclear privatisation.
The biggest tax changes for 1988 plug takeover loopholes in the 1986 tax law.
They say he socialized with Mr. Bagsik, and wonder why he didn't act sooner to plug the loophole that let Art-B kite checks.
He can plug into any character.
Acquisition financing could help to plug part of the hole left by the slide in banks' lending to their big business customers so far in the 1990s.
She said that "Kubota didn't pull the plug on us."
"I think Terry debated with himself a lot while we tried to plug our ears with bits of mattress and bits of pillow.
In addition, Congress is expected to pass related legislation to plug loopholes that allow many partnerships to begin takeover bids without first reporting their holdings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino provision.
When Peters Gamm decided in 1990 to pull the plug, the loans to Christopher Steel executives delayed the liquidation proceedings for months, Mr. West says.
"It's a loophole we need to plug up," Jacksonville Sheriff Jim McMillan said.
Until investigators pulled the plug on the operation last March, Home Dish was the only nationwide satellite network beaming hard-core pornography to home television viewers, the Justice Department said.
I'll only hurt you if you try to plug my baby back in," police quoted Rudy Linares as saying.
Mayor David Dinkins is trying to plug a $1.8 billion budget deficit in this fiscal year's budget.