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Plug can be a verb or a noun.

plug used as a verb:

  1. To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
    "He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk."
  2. To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
    "The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome."
  3. To persist or continue with something.
    "Keep plugging at the problem until you find a solution."
  4. To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

plug used as a noun:

  1. A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.
    "I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again."
  2. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
    "Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain."
  3. A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
    "He preferred a plug of tobacco to loose chaw."
  4. A high, tapering silk hat.
  5. A worthless horse.
    "That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!"
  6. A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
  7. A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features one or more of these.
    "During the interview, the author put in a plug for his latest novel."
  8. A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
    "Pressure built beneath the plug in the caldera, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion of pyroclastic shrapnel and ash."
  9. A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
    "The fisherman cast the plug into a likely pool, hoping to catch a whopper."

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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What type of word is plug?

As detailed above, 'plug' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.
  2. Verb usage: The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.
  3. Verb usage: Keep plugging at the problem until you find a solution.
  4. Noun usage: I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.
  5. Noun usage: Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain.
  6. Noun usage: He preferred a plug of tobacco to loose chaw.
  7. Noun usage: That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!
  8. Noun usage: During the interview, the author put in a plug for his latest novel.
  9. Noun usage: Pressure built beneath the plug in the caldera, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion of pyroclastic shrapnel and ash.
  10. Noun usage: The fisherman cast the plug into a likely pool, hoping to catch a whopper.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of plug are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of plug, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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