Definition of SOURCE

source

Plural: sources

Noun

  • the place where something begins, where it springs into being
    • "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"
  • a document (or organization) from which information is obtained
    • "the reporter had two sources for the story"
  • anything that provides inspiration for later work
  • a facility where something is available
  • a person who supplies information
  • someone who originates or causes or initiates something
  • (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system
    • "a heat source"
    • "a source of carbon dioxide"
  • anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies
  • a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to
    • "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation"
  • 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.
  • Source code.
  • The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  • A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
  • The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.

Verb

Verb Forms: sourced, sourcing, sources

  • To obtain from a particular supplier; to find an origin for.
  • get (a product) from another country or business
    • "She sourced a supply of carpet"
  • specify the origin of
    • "The writer carefully sourced her report"
  • To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
  • To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.

Examples

  • He tried to SOURCE a better strategy, but his current one was already optimal.
  • The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling.
  • The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.

Origin / 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.

Antonyms

sink

Scrabble Score: 8

source: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
source: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
source: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

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