'Source' definitions:
Definition of 'source'
(from WordNet)
noun
The place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn: beginning, origin, root, rootage, source]
noun
A document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story"
noun
noun
A facility where something is available
noun
A person who supplies information [syn: informant, source]
noun
Someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints" [syn: generator, source, author]
noun
(technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system; "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide" [ant: sink]
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" [syn: reservoir, source]
noun
A publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to; "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation" [syn: reference, source]
verb
Get (a product) from another country or business; "She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies"
verb
Specify the origin of; "The writer carefully sourced her report"
Definition of 'Source'
From: GCIDE
- Source \Source\, n. [OE. sours, OF. sourse, surse, sorse, F. source, fr. OF. sors, p. p. of OF. sordre, surdre, sourdre, to spring forth or up, F. sourdre, fr. L. surgere to lift or raise up, to spring up. See Surge, and cf. Souse to plunge or swoop as a bird upon its prey.]
- 1. The act of rising; a rise; an ascent. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours Up springeth into the air, right so prayers . . . Maken their sours to Goddes ears two. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain. [1913 Webster]
- Where as the Poo out of a welle small Taketh his firste springing and his sours. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Kings that rule Behind the hidden sources of the Nile. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause. [1913 Webster]
- This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: See Origin. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'source'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adviser,
- ambition,
- announcer,
- annunciator,
- antecedent,
- aspiration,
- author,
- authority,
- authorship,
- basis,
- begetter,
- beginning,
- birthplace,
- bonanza,
- calling,
- cause,
- channel,
- commencement,
- communicant,
- communicator,
- conception,
- consideration,
- cornucopia,
- creator,
- dawn,
- dawning,
- derivation,
- determinant,
- documentation,
- enlightener,
- expert witness,
- font,
- fount,
- fountain,
- fountainhead,
- genesis,
- goal,
- gold mine,
- gossipmonger,
- grapevine,
- grass roots,
- ground,
- guiding light,
- guiding star,
- head,
- headstream,
- headwater,
- headwaters,
- ideal,
- inception,
- informant,
- information center,
- information medium,
- informer,
- inspiration,
- intention,
- interviewee,
- lode,
- lodestar,
- mainspring,
- matter,
- mine,
- monitor,
- mother,
- motive,
- mouthpiece,
- newsmonger,
- notifier,
- onset,
- opening,
- origin,
- original,
- origination,
- originator,
- outset,
- parent,
- paternity,
- press,
- principle,
- provenance,
- provenience,
- public relations officer,
- publisher,
- quarry,
- radical,
- radio,
- radix,
- reason,
- reporter,
- resource,
- rise,
- rising,
- riverhead,
- root,
- roots,
- rootstock,
- sake,
- score,
- source of supply,
- spokesman,
- spring,
- staple,
- start,
- starting,
- stem,
- stock,
- taproot,
- television,
- teller,
- tipster,
- tout,
- ulterior motive,
- vein,
- vocation,
- well,
- wellhead,
- wellspring,
- whence,
- witness