PEG (pegged, pegging)

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Irregular inflected forms: pegged    , pegging   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does peg mean? 

• PEG (noun)
  The noun PEG has 6 senses:

1. a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface

2. small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.

3. informal terms for the leg

4. a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

5. regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument

6. a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing

  Familiarity information: PEG used as a noun is common.

• PEG (verb)
  The verb PEG has 4 senses:

1. succeed in obtaining a position

2. pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into

3. fasten or secure with a wooden pin

4. stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations

  Familiarity information: PEG used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

nog; peg

Hypernyms ("peg" is a kind of...):

pin (a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "peg"):

golf tee; tee (a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground)

tent peg (a peg driven into the ground to hold a rope supporting a tent)

treenail; trenail; trunnel (a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast)

Derivation:

peg (fasten or secure with a wooden pin)

peg (pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

peg; pin

Hypernyms ("peg" is a kind of...):

mark; marker; marking (a distinguishing symbol)

Derivation:

peg (pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Informal terms for the leg

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

peg; pin; stick

Context example:

fever left him weak on his sticks

Hypernyms ("peg" is a kind of...):

leg (a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

leg; peg; pegleg; wooden leg

Hypernyms ("peg" is a kind of...):

prosthesis; prosthetic device (corrective consisting of a replacement for a part of the body)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("peg" is a kind of...):

regulator (any of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling fluid flow, pressure, temperature, etc.)

Holonyms ("peg" is a part of...):

stringed instrument (a musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

oarlock; peg; pin; rowlock; thole; tholepin

Hypernyms ("peg" is a kind of...):

holder (a holding device)

Holonyms ("peg" is a part of...):

dinghy; dory; rowboat (a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled)

• PEG (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they peg    ... he / she / it pegs   
Past simple: pegged   
Past participle: pegged   
-ing form: pegging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Succeed in obtaining a position

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

nail; nail down; peg

Context example:

He nailed down a spot at Harvard

Hypernyms (to "peg" is one way to...):

bring home the bacon; come through; deliver the goods; succeed; win (attain success or reach a desired goal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "peg" is one way to...):

pierce; thrust (penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

peg (a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface)

peg (small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Fasten or secure with a wooden pin

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

peg; peg down

Context example:

peg a tent

Hypernyms (to "peg" is one way to...):

attach (cause to be attached)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Also:

peg down (define clearly)

Derivation:

peg (a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar

Hypernyms (to "peg" is one way to...):

stabilise; stabilize (make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Dorothy had only one other dress, but that happened to be clean and was hanging on a peg beside her bed.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I’ll fill the vacant peg then.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I suppose you are going to college soon? I see you pegging away at your books, no, I mean studying hard."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A long room with three long rows of desks, and six of forms, and bristling all round with pegs for hats and slates.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her stick was tied to a peg in the ground and she could not follow him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The results peg 2007 OR10 as the largest unnamed world in our solar system and the third largest of the current roster of about half a dozen dwarf planets.

(2007 OR10: Largest Unnamed World in the Solar System, NASA)

A recombinant human arginase I (liver arginase) covalently attached, via a succinamide propionic acid (SPA) linker, to a polyethylene glycol (PEG) of molecular weight 5,000 [rhArg-peg(5,000mw)] with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Pegylated Recombinant Human Arginase I BCT-100, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the hypoplasia of the odontoid which appears as a stubby peg of an odontoid process.

(Odontoid Hypoplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

As a matter of fact, the drawn curtain disclosed nothing but three or four suits of clothes hanging from a line of pegs.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It features 25 key-style pegs with holes in various positions in space, and is especially good for testing lateralized brain damage.

(Grooved Pegboard Test, NCI Thesaurus)