Source and Plug

noun

• 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, root, rootage
• A document (or organization) from which information is obtained.
  • usage: "the reporter had two sources for the story"
• Anything that provides inspiration for later work.
  • synonyms: seed, germ
• A facility where something is available.
• A person who supplies information.
  • synonyms: informant
• Someone who originates or causes or initiates something.
  • usage: "he was the generator of several complaints"
  • synonyms: generator, author
• Technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system. (
  • usage: "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide"
• Anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies.
  • usage: "an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival"
  • synonyms: reservoir
• A publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to.
  • usage: "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation"
  • synonyms: reference

verb

• Get (a product) from another country or business.
  • usage: "She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies"
• Specify the origin of.
  • usage: "The writer carefully sourced her report"

• (n.) The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
• (n.) The rising from the ground or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
• (n.) That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.

(DoD) A person, thing, or activity from which information is obtained.
(DoD) In clandestine activities, a person (agent), normally a foreign national, in the employ of an intelligence activity for intelligence purposes.
(DoD) In interrogation activities, any person who furnishes information, either with or without the knowledge that the information is being used for intelligence purposes. In this context, a controlled source is in the employment or under the control of the intelligence activity and knows that the information is to be used for intelligence purposes. An uncontrolled source is a voluntary contributor of information and may or may not know that the information is to be used for intelligence purposes. See also agent; collection agency.

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.