Avoid and Plug

avoid

Stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something.
- usage: "Her former friends now avoid her"
Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening.
- usage: "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
- synonyms: debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, ward off
Refrain from doing something.
- usage: "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"
Refrain from certain foods or beverages.
- usage: "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"
- synonyms: keep off
Declare invalid.
- usage: "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
- synonyms: invalidate, annul, quash, void, nullify

(a.) To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
(a.) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
(v.i.) To become void or vacant.
(a.) To get rid of.
(a.) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.
(a.) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
(a.) To empty.
(v.i.) To retire; to withdraw.
(a.) To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

plug

Blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly.
- synonyms: stopper, stopple
A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
- synonyms: chew, chaw, cud, quid, wad
Blatant or sensational promotion.
- synonyms: ballyhoo, hoopla, hype
Electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark.
- synonyms: spark plug, sparking plug
An electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection.
- synonyms: male plug
An upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire.
- synonyms: fireplug, fire hydrant
An old or over-worked horse.
- synonyms: hack, jade, nag

Fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug.
- usage: "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak"
- synonyms: stop up, secure
Persist in working hard.
- usage: "Students must plug away at this problem"
- synonyms: plug away
Deliver a quick blow to.
- usage: "he punched me in the stomach"
- synonyms: punch
Make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote.
Insert a plug into.
- usage: "plug the wall"
Insert as a plug.
- usage: "She plugged a cork in the wine bottle"

(n.) A worthless horse.
(n.) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
(v.t.) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
(n.) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.
(n.) A high, tapering silk hat.
(n.) Any piece of wood, metal or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Plug is a variable that handles financial slack in the financial plan.