source
verb
- to state reference information from the source, refer to, cite
- obtain or use from a specific source
- provide, be a source of
noun
- object (person, place, text, thing, etc.) from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired
- origin of information for the intelligence services
- concept in a metadata schema
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /sɔːs/ / /sɔɹs/ / /so(ː)ɹs/
noun
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.
- The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
“The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling.”
“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.”
- Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
“The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.”
“The O-erh-ch'i-ssu River begins in the southern section of the lofty A-erh-t'ai Mountains of Sinkiang. This river is over 2,900 kilometers long and has a large delta area rich in minerals such as gold, iron, copper, lead, zinc, mercury, mica, crystal and "ping-chou-shih" [3056 3166 4258 possibly cryolite]. At the source of the O-erh-ch'i-ssu River, the A-erh-t'ai Mountains reach more than 3,000 meters above sea level. The peaks of the mountains are covered with snow year-round, and rainfall is heavy in the summer.”
- 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.
“Coordinate term: target”
verb
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.
- To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
“But the point when it would have to look at alternative new-build vehicles was always looming large, and there would inevitably be a finite number of Class 66s it could source from elsewhere, and a limit to other locomotives it could re-power.”
- To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.