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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Source has 9 senses
- source(n = noun.location) beginning, origin, root, rootage - 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" has particulars: derivation, spring, fountainhead, head, headspring, headwater, wellhead, wellspring, jumping-off place, point of departure, birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience, home, point source, trail head, trailhead
- source(n = noun.communication) Array - a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story" is a kind of document, papers, written document
- source(n = noun.cognition) germ, seed - anything that provides inspiration for later work; Array is a kind of inspiration
- source(n = noun.artifact) Array - a facility where something is available; Array is a kind of facility, installation
- source(n = noun.person) informant - a person who supplies information; Array is a kind of communicator
- source(n = noun.person) author, generator - someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints" has particulars: coiner
- source(n = noun.process) Array - (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system; "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide" is a kind of action, activity, natural action, natural process
- source(n = noun.object) reservoir - 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" is a kind of thing
- source(n = noun.communication) reference - 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" is a kind of publication
is a kind of point
has particulars: source materials, fountainhead, well, wellspring
Derived form verb source2
has particulars: taproot, muse
has particulars: golconda, gold mine, goldmine
Derived form verb source1
has particulars: betrayer, blabber, informer, rat, squealer, leaker, passive source, whistle-blower, whistle blower, whistleblower
is a kind of maker, shaper
has particulars: origin
Antonym: sink
Derived form verb source2
Verb Source has 2 senses
- source(v = verb.possession) Array - get (a product) from another country or business; "She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies" is one way to obtain
- source(v = verb.cognition) Array - specify the origin of; "The writer carefully sourced her report" is one way to document
Derived form noun source4
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Derived forms noun source2, noun source9
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
Source, n. [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.].
- The act of rising; a rise; an ascent. [1913 Webster]"Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours
Up springeth into the air, right so prayers . . .
Maken their sours to Goddes ears two." [1913 Webster] - The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain. [1913 Webster]"Where as the Poo out of a welle small
Taketh his firste springing and his sours." [1913 Webster]"Kings that rule
Behind the hidden sources of the Nile." [1913 Webster] - That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause. [1913 Webster]"This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself." [1913 Webster]"The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense." [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- See Origin.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Source, n. & v.
--n.
1 a spring or fountain-head from which a stream issues (the sources of the Nile).
2 a place, person, or thing from which something originates (the source of all our troubles).
3 a person or document etc. providing evidence (reliable sources of information; historical source material).
4 a a body emitting radiation etc. b Physics a place from which a fluid or current flows. c Electronics a part of a transistor from which carriers flow into the interelectrode channel.
--v.tr. obtain (esp. components) from a specified source.
--n.
1 a spring or fountain-head from which a stream issues (the sources of the Nile).
2 a place, person, or thing from which something originates (the source of all our troubles).
3 a person or document etc. providing evidence (reliable sources of information; historical source material).
4 a a body emitting radiation etc. b Physics a place from which a fluid or current flows. c Electronics a part of a transistor from which carriers flow into the interelectrode channel.
--v.tr. obtain (esp. components) from a specified source.
Idiom
at source at the point of origin or issue. source-criticism the evaluation of different, esp. successive, literary or historical sources.
Etymology
ME f. OF sors, sourse, past part. of sourdre rise f. L surgere
THESAURUS
Source
adviser, ambition, announcer, annunciator, antecedent, aspiration, author, authority, authorship, basis, begetter, beginning, birthplace, bonanza, calling, cause, channel, commencement, communicant, communicator, conception, consideration, cornucopia, creator, dawn, dawning, derivation, determinant, documentation, enlightener, expert witness, font, fount, fountain, fountainhead, genesis, goal, gold mine, gossipmonger, grapevine, grass roots, ground, guiding light, guiding star, head, headstream, headwater, headwaters, ideal, inception, informant, information center, information medium, informer, inspiration, intention, interviewee, lode, lodestar, mainspring, matter, mine, monitor, mother, motive, mouthpiece, newsmonger, notifier, onset, opening, origin, original, origination, originator, outset, parent, paternity, press, principle, provenance, provenience, public relations officer, publisher, quarry, radical, radio, radix, reason, reporter, resource, rise, rising, riverhead, root, roots, rootstock, sake, score, source of supply, spokesman, spring, staple, start, starting, stem, stock, taproot, television, teller, tipster, tout, ulterior motive, vein, vocation, well, wellhead, wellspring, whence, witnessROGET THESAURUS
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Beginning
N beginning, commencement, opening, outset, incipience, inception, inchoation, introduction, alpha, initial, inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation, rising of the curtain, maiden speech, outbreak, onset, brunt, initiative, move, first move, narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge, fresh start, new departure, origin, source, rise, bud, germ, egg, rudiment, genesis, primogenesis, birth, nativity, cradle, infancy, start, inception, creation, starting point, dawn, evolution, title-page, head, heading, van, caption, fatihah, entrance, entry, inlet, orifice, mouth, chops, lips, porch, portal, portico, propylon, door, gate, gateway, postern, wicket, threshold, vestibule, propylaeum, skirts, border, first stage, first blush, first glance, first impression, first sight, rudiments, elements, outlines, grammar, alphabet, ABC, beginning, initial, initiatory, initiative, inceptive, introductory, incipient, proemial, inaugural, inchoate, inchoative, embryonic, rudimental, primogenial, primeval, primitive, primordial, aboriginal, natal, nascent, first, foremost, leading, maiden, begun, just begun, at the beginning, in the beginning first, in the first place, imprimis, first and foremost, in limine, in the bud, in embryo, in its infancy, from the beginning, from its birth, ab initio, ab ovo, ab incunabilis, ab origine, let's get going!, let's get this show on the road!, up and at 'em!, aller Anfang ist schwer, dimidium facti qui coepit habet, omnium rerum principia parva sunt.Cause
N cause, origin, source, principle, element, occasioner, prime mover, primum mobile, vera causa, author, mainspring, agent, leaven, groundwork, foundation, spring, fountain, well, font, fountainhead, spring head, wellhead, fons et origo, genesis, descent, remote cause, influence, pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum, key, proximate cause, causa causans, straw that breaks the camel's back, ground, reason, reason why, why and wherefore, rationale, occasion, derivation, final cause, les dessous des cartes, undercurrents, rudiment, egg, germ, embryo, bud, root, radix radical, etymon, nucleus, seed, stem, stock, stirps, trunk, tap-root, gemmule, radicle, semen, sperm, nest, cradle, nursery, womb, nidus, birthplace, hotbed, causality, causation, origination, production, caused, causal, original, primary, primitive, primordial, aboriginal, protogenal, radical, embryonic, embryotic, in embryo, in ovo, seminal, germinal, at the bottom of, connate, having a common origin, because, behind the scenes, causa latet vis est notissima, felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.
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