Root and Plug

noun

• Botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground. (
• The place where something begins, where it springs into being.
  • usage: "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
  • synonyms: beginning, origin, rootage, source
• Linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed. (
  • usage: "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
  • synonyms: root word, base, stem, theme, radical
• A number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number.
• The set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation.
  • synonyms: solution
• Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent.
  • synonyms: ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent
• A simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes.
  • synonyms: etymon
• The part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support.
  • synonyms: tooth root

verb

• Take root and begin to grow.
  • usage: "this plant roots quickly"
• Come into existence, originate.
  • usage: "The problem roots in her depression"
• Plant by the roots.
• Dig with the snout.
  • usage: "the pig was rooting for truffles"
  • synonyms: rout, rootle
• Become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style.
  • usage: "He finally settled down"
  • synonyms: settle, take root, steady down, settle down
• Cause to take roots. .

• (v.i.) To shout for or otherwise noisly applaud or encourage, a contestant, as in sports; hence, to wish earnestly for the success of some one or the happening of some event, with the superstitious notion that this action may have efficacy; -- usually with for; as, the crowd rooted for the home team.
• (n.) That which resembles a root in position or function, especially as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like.
• (n.) That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.
• (v.i.) To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
• (v.t.) To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out or away.
• (v.i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.
• (n.) The time which to reckon in making calculations.
• (n.) A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix or radical.
• (n.) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics or overtones, a chord is composed.
• (v.i.) To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
• (n.) The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion or the sweet flag.
• (v.t.) To plant and fix deeply in the earth or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.
• (n.) An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.
• (v.t.) To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.
• (n.) An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.
• (n.) The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.
• (n.) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids.
• (n.) The lowest place, position or part.
• (v.i.) To be firmly fixed; to be established.

noun

• 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

verb

• 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.

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