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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or involving the performance of music using acoustic instruments, sometimes amplified through microphones.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the plug removed; also, not plugged: in electrical testing, said of a resistance when the plug which short-circuits the coils of wire forming the resistance in the box of resistance-coils is taken out.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
plugged in . - adjective music Using
acoustic instruments, especially in lieu ofelectric ones. - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unplug .
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Examples
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| Reply wait are they saying that Layla unplugged is a cover of his own song?
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The people who live South of I-90 tend to speak English less, vote less, and will otherwise be more likely to be unplugged from the process.
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Think Progress » CNN poll: 47 percent of Americans want to repeal health care reform. 2010
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Maybe France will demand they be unplugged from the net for their 3-strikes?
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In my experience as a teacher trainer, it has not been the case that teaching unplugged is purely the domain of the experienced, DELTA qualified teacher.
C is for Coursebook (by Lindsay Clandfield) « An A-Z of ELT 2010
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Laptops: If you spill a liquid on the keyboard get it unplugged from the mains and remove its battery as quick as possible.
How To Save Your Keyboard After A Spill | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Your cordless phone would be useless for answering phone calls since the base station would need to remain unplugged until the phone rang – assuming you had a non-cordless phone elsewhere in the house to let you know the phone was ringing in the first place
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I woke up when the power was restored sometime after eleven and stumbled around resetting the clocks and making sure my computer, which I had unplugged from the power source, was hooked up again.
June 2005 2005
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I have always been jealous of my colleagues who can teach large classes 'unplugged' -- i.e., without using a microphone.
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Like all Denon Presets  – your settings are remembered from gig to gig  – even after the units unplugged from the power  – more on Presets later.
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