source
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɔːs/
ipa: /sɔɹs/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /so(ː)ɹs/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /soəs/
ipa: /suːɹs/
ipa: /sʊɹs/
homophone: sauce (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: sources
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.
Senses: examples: text: The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling.
text: 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.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
text: Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
ref: 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
glosses: The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
examples: text: The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.
text: 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.
ref: 1969 July 3 [1969 May 28], “A View of the O-erh-ch'i-ssu River Delta”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 59, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Hong Kong, Ta Kung Pao, p 8, translation of 額爾齊斯河流域風貌 by 念澄 (in Chinese), →OCLC, Economic, page 11:
english: 我國新疆的額爾齊斯河,發源於巍峨的阿爾泰山東部,[…]
額爾齊斯河全長二千九百多公里,它的流域面積很廣,在它流域的廣闊土地上,蘊藏著豐富的寶藏,其中有金,鐵,銅,鉛,鋅,水銀,雲母,氷洲石,水晶等.
額爾齊斯河的發源地阿爾泰山,也是我國的名山,海拔三千米以上,山常年積雪,夏天雨水很多.
translation: 我國新疆的額爾齊斯河,發源於巍峨的阿爾泰山東部,[…]
額爾齊斯河全長二千九百多公里,它的流域面積很廣,在它流域的廣闊土地上,蘊藏著豐富的寶藏,其中有金,鐵,銅,鉛,鋅,水銀,雲母,氷洲石,水晶等.
額爾齊斯河的發源地阿爾泰山,也是我國的名山,海拔三千米以上,山常年積雪,夏天雨水很多.
text: Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
ref: 2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8:
glosses: Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
glosses: A reporter's informant.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Source code.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
examples: Coordinate term: target
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.
Synonyms: wellspring
Hyponyms: crowdsource
datasource
primary source
secondary source
source code
tertiary source
Derived terms: airmass source region
broken source
closed-source
closed source
crowd-source
data source
energy source
e-source
inner source
life-source
light source
open source
open-source
orphan source
point source
power source
quasi-stellar radio-source
quasi-stellar radio source
radio source
sealed source
second source
source-available
source configuration management
source control
source criticism
source document
source domain
source language
sourceless
sourceness
source routing
source text
souse
ur-source
Related terms: resource
target