No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I've called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you're asking someone if they've seen any (______)'s
If the transformer is in the same housing at the plug with a separate cable (as shown): wall wart.
If the DC cable is attached, it's a charger.
If it's housed in its own case, it's a power brick.
If there's no transformer it's a power lead, unless it's rated for over 10A, then it's a power cable.
Dongles are peripherals that are housed in the same casing as the host connector. Anyone who thinks they can power a device with a dongle is a dangerous sociopath.
If it's housed in its own case, it's a power brick.
This is a line lump, the alternative to the wall wart. Both were slang terms, it just sounds like only one of them stuck around.
"Wall Warts"
USB chargers.
"Dongles" are wire to wire USB adapters for computers. Sound "cards", Ethernet adapters, video adapters.
Adapter or charger. Rarely - power brick.
Wall Wart
Usb wall charger
Power bricks or USB bricks. A dongle is an adapter, so it has some sort of thing on each side (besides a power plug lol).
Ladegerät
"Charger" (lader) in general and more specific "block" (blokje)
Charge block.
I generally think of these as "transformers", but I call it a power supply. Mostly folks look at me like a Labrador trying to do calculus, and say "You mean a power brick?"
I usually call them "those, uh, usb thingies" while pantomiming plugging one into the wall
Stromziegel
When I was in college, we called these wall warts.
USB charger or adapter
Wall wart or power brick.
Chargie boys.
Charging block
USB charger
Power biscuit
I call those low quality crap made in China so that China has a better chance to bring us down by seizing to export this stuff.
Anything but China, please. Even Vietnam is a lot better!
Isn't it a mobile charger?
I'd call them USB adapters; "chargers" is probably slightly more common though never sat right with me since they can be used to power things other than charging.
Or more in the past we would call any kind of power adapters "transformers" but don't seem to hear that much any more.
Wall block
Charging brick. I don't think I've ever heard them called anything else besides a charger.
My family calls them charging doots
Edit: or also sometimes “wall-to-usb adapters”
Inkompatibel
Wall block USB wall block
Most of the time, we just call it block , I’ve never heard of wall wart. Today I learned…
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