What is "plugging"

Usage examples of "plugging".

Pacino began to make his way aft to the shielded tunnel, unplugging and re plugging his mask every forty feet until he was in maneuvering.

Zillner attributed this circumstance to the small size of the wound, atheroma and degeneration of the aorta and slight retraction of the inner coat, together with a possible plugging of the pericardial opening.

Her latest run had been that day, while Cec had screamed and weltered with his cruel hands in her mouth, and Milady had lain silent, white-faced and stoical, waiting for the plugging in of her new teeth.

Battling Dago Pete landed a few more before the fight was over, but as any old fighter will tell you there is nothing more discouraging than to discover that your most effective blows do not feeze your opponent, and only the knowledge of what a defeat at the hands of a new sparring partner would mean to his future, kept him plugging away at the hopeless task of attempting to knock out this mountain of bone and muscle.

Technicians manipulated data not by plugging away at traditional keyboards, but via keyless entry systems, the likes of which Harvath had never seen before.

Lord Tedesco returned to his apartments and to the current for plugging into the centers of pleasure in his brain.

Haviland Tuf paused for a moment before plugging back into the data service he had been employing.

When Vax came in he turned on his holovid, plugging in a shrill slap-nag chip.

Increased difficulty of breathing is the result, and where a large portion of lung is affected by the plugging up of a large bronchus, a fatal result may rapidly follow, the danger being specially great in the case of children.

Seven Galaxies rite tonight and Lagosta wants you to help out plugging in the polyphase generator.

And tell you what a lousy job you did on that radio show last night when you were plugging your trashy album.

She checked her spacesuit carefully for tears in the fabric, then suited up as usual and went through the various airlocks leading into Biosafety Level Four, plugging and unplugging and replugging her air hose.

The clots which are formed by this treatment become detached and are carried into the general circulation and conveyed to the liver, lungs and even to the brain, where, by plugging up the vessels of those organs, they cause abscesses which terminate life.

Some chose to take the noon southbound back home, others kept plugging on, at night school or Vineland Community College or Humboldt State, or going to work for the various federal, state, county, church, and private charitable agencies that were the biggest employers up here next to the timber companies.

The ice was gone and a Corps of Engineers workboat was plugging along below them, a guy on the foredeck looking at the bank through binoculars.