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Definition of Source

1. Verb. Get (a product) from another country or business. "They are sourcing from smaller companies"

2. Noun. The place where something begins, where it springs into being. "Communism's Russian root"

3. Verb. Specify the origin of. "The writer carefully sourced her report"

4. Noun. A document (or organization) from which information is obtained. "The reporter had two sources for the story"

5. Noun. Anything that provides inspiration for later work.

6. Noun. A facility where something is available.

7. Noun. A person who supplies information.

8. Noun. Someone who originates or causes or initiates something. "He was the generator of several complaints"

9. Noun. (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system. "A source of carbon dioxide"

10. 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"

11. Noun. A publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to. "He spent hours looking for the source of that quotation"

Definition of Source

1. n. The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

Definition of Source

1. Noun. The person, place(,) or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired. ¹

2. Noun. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates. ¹

3. Noun. A reporter's informant. ¹

4. Noun. (computing) Source code. ¹

5. Noun. (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET). ¹

6. Verb. (Chiefly American English) To obtain or procure: (non-gloss definition used especially of a business resource.) ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (gloss from which it comes): to find a citation for. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Source

1. to originate [v -CED, -CING, -CES] - See also: originate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Source

sour grapes sour gum sour krout sour mash sour mash whiskey sour note sour orange sour puss sour pusses sour salt

sourball sourbellies sourbelly source (current term) source book source code source codes source configuration management source control source domain

source emission reduction plan source language source languages source materials source of illumination source program source routing source text

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