different between plug vs trek

English

Etymology

1606; from Dutch plug, from Middle Dutch plugge (“peg, plug”), from Old Dutch *pluggi. Origin unknown. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz, but the word seems originally restricted to northern continental West Germanic: compare German Low German Plüg, Norwegian plug (“peg, wedge”, probably borrowed from Middle Low German), German Pflock (“peg”, restricted to Central German and phonetically divergent). Possibly akin to Lithuanian plúkti (“to strike, hew”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: pl?g, IPA^(key): /pl??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

plug (plural plugs)

1. (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
   1. (loosely) An electric socket: wall plug.
2. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.

   Synonyms: bung, dowel, stopper, stopple

3. (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.

4. (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
5. (US, slang) A worthless horse.

   Synonyms: (racing) bum, dobbin, hack, jade, nag

6. (dated) Any worn-out or useless article.
7. (construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
8. (slang) A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features one or more of these.

9. (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.

10. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.

11. (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
12. (jewellery) A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
13. (slang) A drug dealer.
    • 2017, Gucci Mane, Neil Martinez-Belkin, The Autobiography of Gucci Mane (page 32)

      He saw me catch a trap and leave the house of a drug dealer. That's why he targeted me. He could have easily blown my ass off right then and there for lying, but for some reason he didn't. He just left. I biked back to my plug's spot and told him […]

14. A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Burmese: ???? (pa.lat)
• ? Japanese: ??? (puragu)

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

2. (transitive) To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
3. (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.

4. (transitive) To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
   • 1884, H. Rider Haggard, The Witch's Head

     I am awfully glad that you kept your nerve and plugged him; it would have been better if you could have nailed him through the right shoulder, which would not have killed him...

5. (slang, transitive) To have sex with, penetrate sexually.

Synonyms

• (persist): keep up, soldier on; see also Thesaurus:persevere
• (shoot a bullet): bust a cap, pop, ventilate
• (have sex with): drill, pound, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• gulp

Albanian

Alternative forms

• pllug

Etymology

From a South Slavic language language, from Proto-Slavic *plug? (“plough”), further derived from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz (“plough”), *pl?guz (“plough”). Compare Serbo-Croatian ????, Bulgarian ???? (plug), and English plough. Replaced parmendë in most dialects, which came to mean “wooden plough”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plu?/

Noun

plug m (indefinite plural plugje, definite singular plugu, definite plural plugjet)

1. steel plough
2. an instance of tilling

Declension

Synonyms

• parmendë

Derived terms

• plugoj, plugim

References

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• plugu

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Proto-Slavic *plug?, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz, *pl?guz (“plough”). Compare also Daco-Romanian plug.

Noun

plug n (plural pluguri)

1. plough

   Synonyms: aratru, aletrã, dãmãljiugu, paramendã

Derived terms

Dutch

Etymology

From early modern plugge, from Middle Dutch *plugge, from Old Dutch *pluggi, from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz. Despite being attested only very late, it has certain cognates in several other Germanic languages, including Middle Low German plugge, Middle High German plugge, Swedish plugg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?x/
• Hyphenation: plug
• Rhymes: -?x

Noun

plug m (plural pluggen, diminutive plugje n)

1. wall plug (used to hold nails and screws)

Derived terms

• oorplug

French

Etymology

From English plug.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plœ?/

Noun

plug m (plural plugs)

1. butt-plug

Istro-Romanian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Proto-Slavic *plug?, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz, *pl?guz (“plough”).

Noun

plug n (plural plugur, definite singular plugu, definite plural plugurle)

1. plough

Romanian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Proto-Slavic *plug?, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz, *pl?guz (“plough”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [plu?]

Noun

plug n (plural pluguri)

1. plough

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plug?, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz, *pl?guz (“plough”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plû?/

Noun

pl?g m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. plough

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plug?, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz, *pl?guz (“plough”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plú?k/, /plúk/

Noun

pl?g or pl?g m inan

1. plough (device pulled through the ground in order to break it upon into furrows for planting)

Inflection

Further reading

• “plug”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

English

Alternative forms

• treck (archaic)

Etymology

From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and tr?ken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekan?, *trakjan? (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?k, IPA^(key): /t??k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

trek (plural treks)

1. (South Africa) A journey by ox wagon.
2. (South Africa) The Boer migration of 1835-1837.
3. A slow or difficult journey.

4. A long walk.

   Synonym: slog

Verb

trek (third-person singular simple present treks, present participle trekking, simple past and past participle trekked)

1. (intransitive) To make a slow or arduous journey.
   • 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá

     Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.

2. (intransitive) To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
3. (South Africa) To travel by ox wagon.

Related terms

• trigger

Translations

Anagrams

• rekt

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /træk/

Etymology 1

From Dutch trekken.

Verb

trek (present trek, present participle trekkende, past participle getrek)

1. to haul
2. to move (moving house)
3. to pull

Descendants

• ? English: trek

Etymology 2

From Dutch trek.

Noun

trek (plural trekke)

1. journey

Derived terms

• Groot Trek

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr?k/
• Hyphenation: trek
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch trec, from trecken.

Noun

trek m (plural trekken, diminutive trekje n)

1. (uncountable) appetite

   Ik heb trek in een reep chocola — I could (now) have a chocolate bar

   Ik heb geen trek in deze klus — I have no mind to carry out this task

2. (countable) journey, migration
3. (uncountable) animal migration
4. (uncountable) draught, air current through a chimney.
5. (countable) feature, trait

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

trek

1. first-person singular present indicative of trekken
2. imperative of trekken

Anagrams

• rekt

French

Noun

trek m (plural treks)

1. treck
2. trecking

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?ek]

Noun

trek

1. truck

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 30