About The Word Source
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What's The Definition Of Source?
[n] a facility where something is available
[n] anything that provides inspiration for later work [n] a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story" [n] 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" [n] 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" [n] someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints" [n] a person who supplies information Synonyms | Synonyms for Source: author | beginning | generator | germ | informant | origin | reference | root | rootage | seed Related Terms | Find terms related to Source: See Also | betrayer | birthplace | blabber | coiner | communicator | cradle | derivation | document | facility | fountainhead | fountainhead | Golconda | gold mine | goldmine | head | headspring | headwaters | home | informer | inspiration | installation | jumping-off place | jumping-off point | leaker | maker | muse | papers | place of origin | point | point source | provenance | publication | rat | shaper | source materials | spring | squealer | trail head | well | wellhead | wellspring | wellspring | written document Source In Webster's Dictionary \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.]
Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours Up springeth
into the air, right so prayers . . . Maken their
sours to Goddes ears two. --Chaucer.
2. The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of
water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
Where as the Poo out of a welle small Taketh his
firste springing and his sours. --Chaucer.
Kings that rule Behind the hidden sources of the
Nile. --Addison.
3. That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its
cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates;
first cause.
This source of ideas every man has wholly in
himself. --Locke.
The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense.
--Pope.
Syn: See {Origin}.
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