英和和英

動詞

plug in (third-person singular simple present plugs in, present participle plugging in, simple past and past participle plugged in)

1. (idiomatic) To connect (an electrical device) to a plug socket.

   Antonym: unplug

   • 2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4:

     Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? Ok. Well, are you sure that it's plugged in?

   • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65:

     I eschew the idea of plugging in my laptop to take notes and resort to old-fashioned pen and paper instead, so that I can enjoy more of the view and not be distracted by bashing a keyboard.

2. (idiomatic) To familiarize and integrate (a person) into an organization.
   • 1994 September 22, 'Clinical Evidence' - Fraudulent Medicare Claims in FL (television production), Chris Wallace (actor), ABC:

     The drivers routinely patrol these areas- welfare offices, senior centers, even street corners- asking the Medicare patients to come with them for check-ups in return for cash. […] To get plugged in, we enlisted Lizzie Green, a 75-year-old widow who lives on social security and a small pension. She agreed to be our undercover test patient.

   • 2017 July 15, Dan Barnes, “Dan Barnes: Eskimos survive late scare to remain only unbeaten CFL team”, in Edmonton Journal‎:

     The Eskimos’ [football team] organizational depth has been tested early and often by a persistent injury bug that has claimed three starters […] and they continue to plug in new players and carry on.

   • c. 2017, Jay Moneta Hunter Thomson, “Membership”, in Wyatt Elementary PTA‎:

     Research shows that children whose parents are involved in their school make better grades and have fewer disciplinary problems at school. When parents get plugged in at school, their children do better.

3. (idiomatic, mathematics) To replace a variable with a number in order to solve an equation.

   Synonym: substitute

   If an equation has three unknowns, you can plug in two of them to find the third.

4. (idiomatic) To input or enter (data).
   • 2005 July, Dan Tynan, “30 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do on the Internet”, in PC World, volume 23, number 7, page 76:

     Want to find out what the bloggers are talking about before it hits the mainstream? Just sign up for PubSub […] and plug in your search terms. This site crawls more than 9 million blogs, public relations newswires, and SEC filings for relevant entries, and then e-mails you the results.

5. To become involved in something.
   • 1983 December 24, Cindy Patton, “AIDS: Putting the Pieces Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 3:

     The inability of the gay movement as a whole to interrelate AIDS work with the many other items on its political agenda left vast segments of the lesbian and gay community sitting on the sidelines wondering how and why to plug in.

関連する語

• plug into

アナグラム

• Pinglu, gulpin, puling

別の表記

• (noun): plugin

語源

Deverbal from plug in.

発音

• IPA: /ˈplʌɡ.ɪn/
• ハイフネーション: plug-in

形容詞

plug-in (not comparable)

1. Designed to be plugged into an electrical power outlet or circuit.
2. Able to be extended with further components in a modular fashion.

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “designed to be plugged in”): hard-wired

関連する語

• plug-in hybrid

名詞

plug-in (plural plug-ins)

1. Anything that plugs into something.
2. (computing) A module or device that interacts with another to add a specific feature or function.
3. An electric vehicle that can be recharged from an external power source.

   Synonym: PEV

4. An air freshener that can be charged by connecting it to the mains power supply.
   • 2013, Rob Temple, Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourselves One Rainy Day at a Time‎, page 141:

     They take your best bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and boil it up with Satsuma peel and bits of stick, resulting in a hot sour wine and every room of the house smelling like a festive Airwick Plug-in has exploded, with the added bonus that all your best pans are now ruined. Cheers!

   • 2015, Sheldon Malone, Changing the Way You Think: One-Year Devotional Unlocking the Mind with the Word of God‎:

     But unlike other Glade products with the aroma being released simply by spraying it or by opening the container, this new product the "Glade Plug-In" required that the product actually be plugged into an electrical socket in order for the aroma and fragrance to get released into the air, with the slogan for its product being "Plug it in, plug it in".

   • 2017, Poppy Dolan, The Bluebell Bunting Society‎:

     Plus, I expect a Febreze plug-in would smell like heaven to me right now.

   • 2021, Lori A. Bonnevier,MSW,LCSW, You Don't Have to Crush Your Ex: Hints, Hacks, and Hell-No's to Win Your Custody Evaluation‎:

     I quickly picked up the dirty laundry that was scattered all around, opened the window, sprayed the room down with Febreze, changed the plug-in, and called it good.

同意語

• add-in, add-on, snap-in

上位語

• software component

関連する語

• drop-in

参考

• drop-in

アナグラム

• Pinglu, gulpin, puling