From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishplug into something phrasal verb1 plug (something) into somethingTEE to connect one piece of electrical equipment to another, or to be connected Your phone can be plugged into the cigarette lighter socket in your car. Games consoles plug into the back of the TV.2 informal to realize that something is available to be used and use it A lot of students don’t plug into all the research facilities we have. → plug→ See Verb table
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plug into • Finally, we compared the three different ways the Acousticube can be plugged into a desk, and we found some problems.• Often the furore stemmed from audiences' unease at being plugged into a musical idiom shorn of familiar signposts.• If teachers tap into this they plug into a powerhouse of emotional - and potentially intellectual - energy.• It consists of a console that plugs into a television, and a game pad.• The device, small enough to fit in a shirt pocket, plugs into a wall socket.• There are many portable types available for hire which simply plug into the 13amp socket.• Insert the jack plug into the stereo unit earphone socket and turn the volume control to a low level.• One wire plugs into the television, another plugs into the telephone jack, a third plugs into the wall. 