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PLUGGED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does plugged mean?
• PLUGGED (adjective)
The adjective PLUGGED has 2 senses:
1. (of a coin) altered by the insertion of a plug of base metal
2. completely obstructed or closed off
Familiarity information: PLUGGED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of a coin) altered by the insertion of a plug of base metal
Classified under:
Participial adjectives
Participle:
plug (replace the center of a coin with a baser metal)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Completely obstructed or closed off
Synonyms:
blocked; plugged
Context example:
the drain was plugged
Similar:
obstructed (shut off to passage or view or hindered from action)
Context examples
“Stop it from without!” cried Hawtayne, seizing the end of the wet sail with which the gap had been plugged.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A circuit board with connectors into which other cards are plugged.
(Backplane Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
Testing the device for failures related to interference voltage tests which are bursts of electrical pulses (e.g. when a switch is turned on or off or the device is plugged in or out).
(Device Electrical Fast Burst Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)
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