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See also:sourcé

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FromMiddle Englishsours, fromOld Frenchsorse(“rise, beginning, spring, source”), fromsors, past participle ofsordre,sourdre, fromLatinsurgō(“to rise”), which is composed ofsub-(“up from below”) +‎regō(“lead, rule”), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*h₃réǵeti(“to straighten; right”), from the root*h₃reǵ-. Seesurge.

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source (pluralsources)

  1. Theperson,place, orthing from which something (information, goods, etc.)comes or isacquired.
    The accused refused to reveal thesource of the illegal drugs she was selling.
    • 2006,Edwin Black, chapter 2, inInternal Combustion‎[2]:
      More than a meresource of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
    • 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8843, page68:
      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 newsources of return.
  2. Spring;fountainhead;wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
    The mainsources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.
    • 1969 July 3 [1969 May 28], “A View of the O-erh-ch'i-ssu River Delta”, inTranslations on People's Republic of China,number59,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,page11:
      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 thesource 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.
      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.
    • 2013 August 16,John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number10, page 8:
      Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near theirsources. 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.
  3. A reporter'sinformant.
  4. (computing)Source code.
  5. (electronics) The name of oneterminal of afield effecttransistor (FET).
  6. (graph theory) Anode in adirected graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
  7. (mathematics, category theory) Thedomain of a function; theobject which amorphism points from.
    Coordinate term:target

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Antonyms

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  • (antonym(s) of“graph theory”):sink

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Translations

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the person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired
spring etc.
informant
(computing) source code—seesource code
(electronics) terminal
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Verb

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source (third-person singular simple presentsources,present participlesourcing,simple past and past participlesourced)

  1. Toobtain orprocure:used especially of abusinessresource.
    • 2023 July 12, Pip Dunn, “Class 99s: "ultimate Electro-Diesel"”, inRAIL, number987, page52:
      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 couldsource from elsewhere, and a limit to other locomotives it could re-power.
  2. (transitive) To find information about (aquotation)'s source(from which it comes): to find acitation for.

Derived terms

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Translations

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to obtain or procure; used especially of a business resource
to find a citation for

References

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  1. ^Jespersen, Otto (1909)A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎[1], volumes I: Sounds and Spellings,London:George Allen & Unwin, published1961,§ 13.36,page368.

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromEnglishsource.

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Noun

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source(Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. source(person, place, thing)
  2. (universityslang) sourcematerial used forcopying orplagiarism

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited fromOld Frenchsorse(“rise, beginning, spring, source”), fromsors, past participle ofsordre,sourdre, fromLatinsurgere(“to rise”). Seesurge.

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Noun

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source f (pluralsources)

  1. source,spring (of water)
  2. source,origin (of anything)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Verb

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source

  1. inflection ofsourcer:
    1. first-personsingular/third-personsingularpresentindicative/presentsubjunctive
    2. second-personsingularimperative

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Middle English

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Noun

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source

  1. Alternative form ofsours
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