Lexic.us

Definition of Source

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

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

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

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

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

Literary usage of Source

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geschichte der biologischen Theorien in der Neuzeit by Sergeĭ Nikolaevich Durylin, Frank Leslie Rector, John Irvin Hamaker, Emanuel Rádl (1913)
"CHAPTER I source OF WATER THE source of all underground water which rises in the ... Springs whose source is the rainfall are found throughout the world, ..."

2. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1900)
"source OF THE PLOT It is always well to know something of the source from which Shakespeare took the plot of the play under consideration. ..."

3. A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume, Thomas Hill Green, Thomas Hodge Grose (1882)
"Meanwhile, unable to ignore the subjective side of self- consciousness, Locke has to put an inward experience as a separate, but co-ordinate, source of ..."

4. Oecd Economic Surveys by OECD Economic Surveys (2005)
"Electricity: Composition of installed capacity by source, 2005 SIC system source: Comision Nacional de Energia. shocks.15 Approval of Ley Corta II is an ..."

5. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"CHAPTER II Of the Principal source of Belief Among Democratic Nations AT different periods dogmatical belief is more or less abundant. ..."

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