Plugs Synonyms and Antonyms

An old or over-worked horse
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. nags
  2. scrubs
  3. hacks
A systematic effort or part of this effort to increase the importance or reputation of by favorable publicity
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. hypes
  2. pitches
  3. ballyhoos
  4. promotions
A wad of something chewable as tobacco
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. wads
  2. twists
  3. cut
  4. quids
Blatant or sensational promotion
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. stoppers
  2. spigots
  3. wedges
  4. hypes
  5. corks
  6. stops
  7. fills
  8. emboli
  9. stoppages
  10. fillings
  11. ballyhoos
  12. chokes
Antonyms:
  1. mouths
  2. openings
To increase or seek to increase the importance or reputation of by favorable publicity
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. touts
  2. puffs
  3. publicizes
  4. promotes
  5. enhances
  6. boosts
To make known vigorously the positive features of (a product)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. pushes
  2. pitches
  3. publicizes
  4. promotes
  5. popularizes
  6. cries
  7. advertizes
Stop up
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. shoots
  2. guns
Antonyms:
  1. uncorks
An electrical fitting
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. connections
  2. fittings

Words Related to Plugs

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Plugs Sentence Examples

  • In a type built with vertical sections each division is complete in itself, and is not directly connected with the next section, but communicates with flow and return drums. A defective section may thus be left in position and stopped off by means of plugs from the drums until it is convenient to fit a new one in its place.

  • Fusible plugs are little used; they consist of pieces of softer metal inserted on the side of the boiler, which melt should the heat of the water rise above a certain temperature.

  • At the outgoing end the circuits are multipled on the subscribers' switchboard, while at the incoming end they terminate in plugs on a special incoming junction switchboard upon which the subscribers' lines are multipled in the usual way.

  • Similarly, in Alaska, women felt great shame when seen without the plugs they carried in their lips.

  • At Wheal Cock near St Just in Cornwall the protecting roof was so thin that holes bored for blasting more than once penetrated to the bed of the ocean, and wooden plugs were kept on hand to drive into such holes when this occurred.

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