Source
[sɔːs] or [sɔrs]
Definition
(noun.) a facility where something is available.
(noun.) anything that provides inspiration for later work.
(noun.) a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; 'the reporter had two sources for the story'.
(noun.) (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system; 'a heat source'; 'a source of carbon dioxide'.
(verb.) specify the origin of; 'The writer carefully sourced her report'.
(verb.) get (a product) from another country or business; 'She sourced a supply of carpet'; 'They are sourcing from smaller companies'.
Checker: Thelma--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
(n.) The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
(n.) That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Origin, spring, fountain, head, rise, cradle, beginning, commencement, fountain-head, starting point.[2]. Cause, original.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rise, origin, spring, fount, fountain, cause, commencement, beginning
ANT:Mouth, debouchure, termination, end, exit, issue, result, effect
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Definition
n. that from which anything rises or originates: origin: the spring from which a stream flows.
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Examples
- Reason is wholly inactive, and can never be the source of so active a principle as conscience, or a sense of morals. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This principle we derive from experience, and is the source of most of our philosophical reasonings. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This was a class of plant which the inquirers desired to purchase outright and operate themselves, usually because of remoteness from any possible source of general supply of current. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This leads us to consider the fifth source of authority, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Such colonies, therefore, have been a source of expense, and not of revenue, to their respective mother countries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She was jealous of him, but there was another and graver source of trouble in her passion for religious mysteries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And she did not speak, but only pressed her hands firmer down upon the source of darkness in him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The yield from both sources has considerably decreased. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I began with such scanty sources of information as were at my own disposal. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Supplies were growing scarce in Richmond, and the sources from which to draw them were in our hands. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The conservation of the forest means the conservation of our waterways, whether these be used for transportation or as sources of drinking water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Of all the sources of evil surrounding the former, since her coming to Highbury, she was persuaded that she must herself have been the worst. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Every tax must finally be paid from some one or other of those three different sources of revenue, or from all of them indifferently. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But I was restlessly curious to look at her--so curious that I felt it to be one of the few sources of entertainment left to me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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