2024年11月10日星期日

plug. millet, Millet, pulverized. a plug for his new book. 50,000 Russian and North Korean Troops Mass Ahead of Attack, U.S. Says

50,000 Russian and North Korean Troops Mass Ahead of Attack, U.S. Says

Ukrainian officials expect a counteroffensive in western Russia to begin in the coming days as North Korea’s troops train with Russian forces.

Kevin Rudd, a former prime minister of Australia and its current ambassador to the United States, has posted a range of things online: a plug for his new book, cheers for his Australian rules football team and many photographs of his cats.

The ‘most intense day’ of Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza saw its troops enter three Hamas strongholds as fears mount for the 1.8mn people forced to flee their homes. https://www.ft.com/....../0ae3a05e-d6e4-49b7-9714......

Martin K. Jones（英國劍橋大學考古學系George Pitt-Rivers講座教授）；講題：”Contacts across Asia? The intriguing case of Neolithic millet farming”（跨越亞洲接觸嗎？新石器時代小米農業的有趣例子）時間：97年9月10日（三）上午10時啟；地點：中央研究院歷史語言研究所研究大樓 7樓會議室。Sci-Tech Encyclopedia: Millet

A common name applied to at least five related members of the grass family grown for their edible seeds: foxtail millet (Setaria italica), proso millet (Panicum miliaceum), pearl or cat-tail millet (Pennisetum typhoideum), Japanese barnyard millet (Echinochloa frumentacea), raggee or finger millet (Eleusine coracana), and koda millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum).

As a crop for human food, pearl millet is grown widely in the tropics and subtropics in regions of limited rainfall where there is a growing season of 90 to 120 days. The naked seeds are yellowish to whitish in color and about the size of wheat grain. The dried grain is usually pulverized to make a meal or flour and then cooked in soups, in porridge, or as cakes.

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plug

/plʌɡ/

noun

1.
a piece of solid material fitting tightly into a hole and blocking it up.
"somewhere in the pipes there is a plug of ice blocking the flow"
Similar:
stopper
bung
cork
seal
spigot
spile
stopple
2.
a device for making an electrical connection between an appliance and the mains, consisting of an insulated casing with metal pins that fit into holes in a socket.
"the cable is fitted with a two-pin plug"

verb

1.
block or fill in (a hole or cavity).
"trucks arrived loaded with gravel to plug the hole and clear the road"
Similar:
stop (up)
seal (up/off)
close (up/off)
cork
stopper
bung
2.
informal
mention (a product, event, or establishment) publicly in order to promote it.
"during the show he plugged his new record"