plug into

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To connect an electric device into something using a plug. ditransitive
    — I spent ages trying to fix my computer, before realizing that it wasn't plugged into the wall.
  2. To join something in the manner of a plug. ditransitive,figuratively
    — Those data points, and others, plug into an artificial intelligence model they’ve made. It spits out recommendations to each store leader, such as how many pies need to be on-hand in their shops by the hour. Last year, Sam’s Club sold enough pumpkin pies to fill up 450 football fields, officials said. (They declined to give an exact figure.)
  3. To become aware of or knowledgeable about. ditransitive,idiomatic
    — Environmental education is just now grappling with this: how to enable a populace that will change jobs and locations frequently to plug into what is ecologically important in preserving whatever landscape it finds itself in?
  4. To replace a variable with a number in order to solve an equation. ditransitive,idiomatic
    — If you know two sides of a right triangle, you can find the third by plugging them into the Pythagorean Theorem.

词形变化

plugs into present,singular,third-person plugging into participle,present plugged into participle,past plugged into past
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