source
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
< Middle English sours < Old French sorse (“‘rise, beginning, spring, source’”) < sors, pp. of sordre, sourdre < Latin surgere (“‘to rise’”); see surge. Cf. sourd
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- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)s
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- sauce (in some non-rhotic dialects)
[edit] Noun
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source (plural sources)
- 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.
- (computing) Source code.
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person, place or thing from which something comes or is acquired
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spring; fountainhead; collection of water
reporter's informant
(computing) source code
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[edit] Verb
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to source (third-person singular simple present sources, present participle sourcing, simple past and past participle sourced)
[edit] Derived terms
- (mainly US): sourcing
- (mainly US): insourcing
- (mainly US): outsourcing
[edit] Translations
(mainly US) to obtain or procure; used especially of a business resource
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[edit] External links
- source in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- source in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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[edit] Noun
source f. (plural sources)
