source
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgere (“to rise”); see surge. Compare sourd
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /sɔɹs/ or IPA: /soʊɹs/ (US)
- X-SAMPA: /sOr\s/ or X-SAMPA: /soUr\s/ (US)
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Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(r)s
- Homophone: sauce (in some non-rhotic dialects)
Noun [edit]
source (plural sources)
- The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, Internal Combustion[1]:
- More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, Internal Combustion[1]:
- 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.
- (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
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Translations [edit]
person, place or thing from which something comes or is acquired
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spring; fountainhead; collection of water
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reporter's informant
(computing) source code
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Verb [edit]
source (third-person singular simple present sources, present participle sourcing, simple past and past participle sourced)
- (chiefly US) To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
- (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.
Derived terms [edit]
- (mainly US): sourcing
- (mainly US): insourcing
- (mainly US): outsourcing
Translations [edit]
to obtain or procure; used especially of a business resource
to find a citation for
External links [edit]
- 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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Noun [edit]
source f (plural sources)