"wall plug" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: wall plugs [plural], wallplug [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} wall plug (plural wall plugs)
  1. (UK) A fixing that allows screws to be fitted into masonry walls, a dowel or screw anchor. Tags: UK Synonyms: rawl plug Translations (fixing): дюбел (djubel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), seinätulppa (Finnish), kiinnitystulppa (Finnish), cheville [feminine] (French), Dübel [masculine] (German), Schraubdübel [masculine] (German), Wanddübel [masculine] (German), Metalldübel [masculine] (German), Kunststoffdübel [masculine] (German), ούπα (oúpa) [neuter] (Greek), ούπατ (oúpat) (Greek), דִּיבֵּל (díbel) [masculine] (Hebrew), tipli (Hungarian), dübel (Hungarian), kołek rozporowy [inanimate, masculine] (Polish), bucha [feminine] (Portuguese), tìpl [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), tarugo [masculine] (Spanish), tắc-kê (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-wall_plug-en-noun-lNF8SEoX Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 73 27 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 79 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 87 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 48 52 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 66 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 48 52 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 66 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 66 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 66 34 Disambiguation of 'fixing': 92 8
  2. (US) An electric socket. Tags: US Translations (electric socket): контакт (kontakt) [masculine] (Bulgarian), pistorasia (Finnish), Steckdose [feminine] (German), πρίζα (príza) [feminine] (Greek), ρευματοδότης (revmatodótis) (Greek), gniazdo elektryczne [neuter] (Polish), tomacorriente [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-wall_plug-en-noun-ctDvRXWP Categories (other): American English, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 48 52 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 48 52 Disambiguation of 'electric socket': 2 98

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.