source
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
category-theory
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
graph-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
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.
Base: regō
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: sources
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sources
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sourcing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sourced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sourced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: A reporter's informant.
pos: noun
gloss: Source code.
pos: noun
gloss: The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
pos: noun
gloss: A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
pos: noun
gloss: The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.
pos: noun
examples: Coordinate term: target
gloss: To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: wellspring
parentage
Antonyms: sink
Related words: resource
target
Derived words: airmass source region
backsource
biosource
broken source
closed source
closed-source
crowd-source
data source
eigensource
energy source
e-source
inner source
InnerSource
insource
intersource
life-source
light source
microsource
multisource
nanosource
open source
open-source
orphan source
paleosource
point source
power source
quasi-stellar radio source
quasi-stellar radio-source
radio source
sealed source
second source
source-available
sourcebook
source configuration management
source control
source criticism
source document
source domain
sourcehood
source language
sourceless
source material
sourceness
source routing
source text
sourceware
sourcework
souse
ur-source
biosourced
insourcing
missource
outsource
outsourcing
sourceable
sourcing
unsourced
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