SOURCE

source

(noun) a facility where something is available

source, seed, germ

(noun) anything that provides inspiration for later work

source

(noun) a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; “the reporter had two sources for the story”

reference, source

(noun) a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to; “he carried an armful of references back to his desk”; “he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation”

beginning, origin, root, rootage, source

(noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being; “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”

reservoir, source

(noun) anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies; “an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival”

generator, source, author

(noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something; “he was the generator of several complaints”

informant, source

(noun) a person who supplies information

source

(noun) (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system; “a heat source”; “a source of carbon dioxide”

source

(verb) specify the origin of; “The writer carefully sourced her report”

source

(verb) get (a product) from another country or business; “She sourced a supply of carpet”; “They are sourcing from smaller companies”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

source (plural sources)

The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.

A reporter's informant.

(computing) Source code.

(electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

Synonyms

• wellspring

Hyponyms

• crowdsource

• datasource

• primary source

• secondary source

• source code

• tertiary source

Verb

source (third-person singular simple present sources, present participle sourcing, simple past and past participle sourced)

(chiefly, US) To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.

(transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.

Anagrams

• 'course, Couser, Crouse, Crusoe, cerous, coures, course, crouse

Source: Wiktionary

Source, n. Etym: [OE. sours, OF. sourse, surse, sorse, F. source, fr. OF. sors, p.p. of OF. sordre, surdre, sourdre, to spring forth or up, F. sourdre, fr. L. surgere to lift or raise up, to spring up. See Surge, and cf. Souse to plunge or swoop as a bird upon its prey.]

1. The act of rising; a rise; an ascent. [Obs.] Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours Up springeth into the air, right so prayers . . . Maken their sours to Goddes ears two. Chaucer.

2. The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain. Where as the Poo out of a welle small Taketh his firste springing and his sours. Chaucer. Kings that rule Behind the hidden sources of the Nile. Addison.

3. That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause. This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself. Locke. The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense. Pope.

Syn.

– See Origin.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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