What is another word for plugs?

Pronunciation: [plˈʌɡz] (IPA)

Plugs are commonly used to connect electrical devices to a power source. However, there are several synonyms for this word, each with their own unique application and purpose. Some different words for plugs include connectors, adaptors, outlets, receptacles, jacks, and sockets. Connectors are used to join electrical cables together or to connect wires to a device. Adaptors are used to change the size or type of plug required for a specific device. Outlets are the part of the power source that provides the electrical energy. Receptacles are a type of outlet that receive power from a plug. Jacks are commonly used in audio and video equipment. Sockets are used to connect light bulbs to electrical circuits. Each synonym for the word "plugs" has a different use and application.

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Usage examples for Plugs

There is usually bronchitis with abundant catarrhal secretion; this plugs up the smaller air tubes, and the lung tissue supplied with air by the tubes collapses.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
It sometimes contains loose, fibrinous plugs, or it may be greatly distended with air, especially in the still normal portions of the lung.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
They were not demonstrative in their expressions of regret, but they thrust upon him little plugs of tobacco, which could not well be replaced there, and several of them told him that, if he struck nothing he liked better, all he had to do was to present himself at this ranch or the other beside blue lake or frothing river when they went back in the spring.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton

Famous quotes with Plugs

  • We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.
    Chico Hamilton
  • I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
    Jack Nicholson
  • I was walking past a sex shop an' that. One, it was open early which I never understood, it was about eight o'clock in the morning. Who needs butt plugs then?
    Karl Pilkington
  • (After chatting about the Serbian sex machine invention and Karl said 'Did it have to be a woman or could they have got a gay fella in - butt plugs and that')..
    Karl Pilkington
  • Are you going to come along quietly, or am I going to have to use ear plugs?
    Spike Milligan

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