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- 1 The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
"The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling."
- 2 a facility where something is available wordnet
- 3 Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
"The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers."
- 4 anything that provides inspiration for later work wordnet
- 5 A reporter's informant.
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- 6 a document (or organization) from which information is obtained wordnet
- 7 Source code.
- 8 a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to wordnet
- 9 The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- 10 the place where something begins, where it springs into being wordnet
- 11 A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
- 12 anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies wordnet
- 13 The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.
"Coordinate term: target"
- 14 someone who originates or causes or initiates something wordnet
- 15 a person who supplies information wordnet
- 16 (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system wordnet
- 1 To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
"But the point when it would have to look at alternative new-build vehicles was always looming large, and there would inevitably be a finite number of Class 66s it could source from elsewhere, and a limit to other locomotives it could re-power."
- 2 specify the origin of wordnet
- 3 To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for. transitive
- 4 get (a product) from another country or business wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgō (“to rise”), which is composed of sub- (“up from below”) + regō (“lead, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-. Doublet of surge.
From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgō (“to rise”), which is composed of sub- (“up from below”) + regō (“lead, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-. Doublet of surge.
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