What's the difference between outlet and plug?

Outlet


Definition:

  • (n.) The place or opening by which anything is let out; a passage out; an exit; a vent.
  • (v. t.) To let out; to emit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
  • (2) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
  • (3) In Japan, particularly, there is a feeling that they were built less out of need than as another outlet for the aggressively proactive concrete industry.
  • (4) The orientation of the dilating balloon in the inlet and outlet portions of the left ventricle, change of the catheter-dilator is controlled due to a loop of the conductor connecting the right and left parts of the heart.
  • (5) The survey also found that department stores – which include general retailers such as Marks & Spencer as well as traditional outlets such as John Lewis – had enjoyed their strongest surge in sales for 30 years.
  • (6) Tesco, the UK’s biggest petrol retailer with 499 outlets and more than 16% market share, cut petrol and diesel by 1p a litre at all of its petrol stations from lunchtime on Thursday.
  • (7) Venous ectasias and varices which can be encountered, associated with DVA constitute an acquired feature in relation to a venous outlet obstacle.
  • (8) We report on two cases of bladder outlet obstruction caused by massive dilatation of persistent müllerian duct remnants.
  • (9) The clinical and anatomic findings were reviewed in 17 patients with double-outlet right ventricle and atrioventricular discordance.
  • (10) His committee had spent only $75,000, which included adverts in media outlets read by members of Congress and their staff.
  • (11) So, in these patients there was predominantly a left colon dysfunction and the called outlet obstruction syndrome, likely related to their evacuatory habits.
  • (12) Antral mucosal diaphragm is uncommon, and presents with manifestations of obstruction to the pyloric outlet.
  • (13) Also last week, Medium said more than a dozen media outlets would start publishing on its site, an arrangement that would have allowed publications whose websites are blocked in China to reach users in the country.
  • (14) The energy of radiation at the guide outlet being 9 mJ, the resources of fiber work remained at a high level (greater than 10(4) impulses) whereas high velocity of tissue evaporation allowed elimination of an area 3 mm3 in volume during 1 minute, with the rate of impulse repetition amounting to 10 Hz.
  • (15) Manning on contacting other media outlets Here is Manning describing how he first contacted traditional news outlets about what he found; listen on the player above.
  • (16) Unlike Saudi Arabia, where consensual phone relationships between men and women are struck up to circumvent the gender segregation in the country, in Egypt these calls are one-sided and predatory – an outlet for lewd and violating language.
  • (17) The outlet should provide adequate outflow resistance to allow expulsion of urine under voluntary control and at convenient intervals.
  • (18) The news wasn’t a surprise, exactly: when a newspaper is available in more outlets than it sells copies, the future obviously looks a little cloudy.
  • (19) By now seemingly every print and online outlet has had a crack at explaining why the Sunday shows are so phenomenally useless.
  • (20) Officials and almost all media outlets say Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist group that is behind all attacks on the Egyptian state – but have thus far provided no evidence of their involvement.

Plug


Definition:

  • (n.) Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
  • (n.) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
  • (n.) A high, tapering silk hat.
  • (n.) A worthless horse.
  • (n.) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.
  • (v. t.) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Results obtained from cumulative labeling and pulse-labeling and chase experiments with cells from late gastrulae, yolk plug-stage embryos, and neurulae showed that the 30S RNA is an intermediate in rRNA processing and is derived from 40S pre-rRNA and processed to 28S rRNA.
  • (2) Six of the obstructed livers developed biliary cast formation so extensive that the smaller intrhepatic ducts became plugged to an extent that they could no longer have been treated by surgical mena.
  • (3) An in vitro, eccentric arterial stenosis model was created using 15 canine carotid arteries cannulated with silicone plugs containing special pressure-transducing catheters designed to measure pressure directly, within the stenosis.
  • (4) This report describes two patients with long-term catheter use who developed increasing respiratory failure and cor pulmonale, at least in part, due to a large tracheal mucus plug.
  • (5) Certain of the schistosomes were covered with a dense mass of interconnected blood platelets resembling a temporary haemostatic plug but not a blood clot.
  • (6) Monaural plugging was performed on different juvenile bats at 7, 14, and 35 days of age.
  • (7) The device was composed of a standard biopsy brush, protected by a single catheter and occluded with an agar plug.
  • (8) The main histological features of the tumour were enormous, but relatively regular, acanthosis of rete pegs revealing no similarity to the squamous-cell carcinoma, and an exclusively parakeratottic eleidine-containing central plug.
  • (9) Cement was pressurized into the cavity of the anatomic specimens, and the maximum interface shear strength between the cement plug and the bone was experimentally determined for each revision.
  • (10) Parties are a tedious chore, while sponsorships are pretty tiresome too: can you remember the key messaging about that motor oil you agreed to plug to the nearest reporter?
  • (11) Aqueous plugs are introduced on both sides of the plasma sample before it enters the precolumn.
  • (12) It’s as if they were a team away from the team, and they’re not shy of plugging into it.
  • (13) So the kids then went and pulled out the computer, plugged in the modem and they found it on YouTube.
  • (14) Three times a week, he rolled his wheelchair up to a computer monitor and allowed scientists from Battelle , a nonprofit research organisation that invented the technology they hoped would let him move his hand with his thoughts again, to plug into his brain.
  • (15) After standardized observation of mating behavior culminating in ejaculation and a sperm plug, females were allowed to produce litters in undisturbed conditions.
  • (16) Histological studies showed a prolonged healing process in both eyes, with a persistent epithelial plug.
  • (17) The consequence of these derangements is often widespread plugging of small bronchi and bronchioles.
  • (18) Posterior fossa decompression with obex plugging (the Gardner operation) was the procedure of choice for SM-ACM and for idiopathic holocord syringomyelia.
  • (19) Commerzbank, 25% owned by the German government, is trying to raise €5.3bn to plug a capital gap identified by the European Banking Authority.
  • (20) Tube dysfunction, defined as peritube leakage, plugging, fracture, or migration, occurred in 36% of patients over a mean follow-up period of 275 days and was significantly more common and likely to necessitate tube replacement in PEJ patients.