plugging
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Plug \Plug\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plugged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Plugging}.]
To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
[1913 Webster]
2. To briefly publicize or advertise, especially during a
public event not specifically intended for advertising
purposes; as, during the interview he plugged his new
book.
Syn: put in a plug for.
[PJC]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
132 Moby Thesaurus words for "plugging":
application, assiduity, assiduous, assiduousness, bulldog tenacity,
concentration, constancy, constant, continuing, diligence,
diligent, dogged, dogged perseverance, doggedness, donkeywork,
drudge, drudgery, drudging, endurance, enduring, engrossment,
faithful, fidelity, grind, grinding, grubbing, hardworking,
immutable, inalterable, indefatigability, indefatigable,
indomitable, industrious, industriousness, industry, insistence,
insistency, insistent, invincible, labor, laboring, lasting, loyal,
loyalty, moil, never-tiring, obstinacy, obstinate, patience,
patience of Job, patient, patient as Job, pegging, permanence,
permanent, perseverance, perseverant, persevering, persistence,
persistency, persistent, persisting, pertinacious,
pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plodding, preoccupation,
preoccupied, rapt, relentless, relentlessness, resolute,
resolution, sedulity, sedulous, sedulousness, single-minded,
single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slavery, slaving,
sleepless, slogging, stability, stable, stamina, staying power,
steadfast, steadfastness, steadiness, steady, stick-to-itiveness,
straining, striving, struggling, stubborn, stubbornness, sweating,
tenacious, tenaciousness, tenacity, tireless, tirelessness, toil,
toiling, unabating, unconquerable, undaunted, undiscouraged,
undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching,
unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting,
unremitting, unremittingness, unsleeping, unswerving,
unswerving attention, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying,
unwinking, utterly attentive, weariless, working
grant@antiflux.org