Definitions for source
sɔrs, soʊrssource

Princeton's WordNet(4.11 / 28 votes)Rate this definition:

1. beginning, origin, root, rootage, source(noun)

   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"

2. source(noun)

   a document (or organization) from which information is obtained

   "the reporter had two sources for the story"

3. source, seed, germ(noun)

   anything that provides inspiration for later work

4. source(noun)

   a facility where something is available

5. informant, source(noun)

   a person who supplies information

6. generator, source, author(noun)

   someone who originates or causes or initiates something

   "he was the generator of several complaints"

7. source(noun)

   (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system

   "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide"

8. reservoir, source(noun)

   anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies

   "an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival"

9. reference, source(verb)

   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"

10. source(verb)

    get (a product) from another country or business

    "She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies"

11. source(verb)

    specify the origin of

    "The writer carefully sourced her report"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. source(Noun)

   The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

   Etymology: From sours, from sorse, from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from surgere; see surge. Compare sourd

2. source(Noun)

   Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.

   Etymology: From sours, from sorse, from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from surgere; see surge. Compare sourd

3. source(Noun)

   A reporter's informant.

   Etymology: From sours, from sorse, from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from surgere; see surge. Compare sourd

4. source(Noun)

   Source code.

   Etymology: From sours, from sorse, from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from surgere; see surge. Compare sourd

5. source(Noun)

   The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

   Etymology: From sours, from sorse, from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from surgere; see surge. Compare sourd

6. source(Verb)

   To obtain or procure:

   Etymology: From sours, from sorse, from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from surgere; see surge. Compare sourd

7. source(Verb)

   To find information about (a quotation)'s source : to find a citation for.

   Etymology: From sours, from sorse, from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from surgere; see surge. Compare sourd

Webster Dictionary(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Source(noun)

   the act of rising; a rise; an ascent

2. Source(noun)

   the rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain

3. Source(noun)

   that from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Source

   Zdroj is a 2005 Czech documentary directed by Martin Mareček and written by Martin Mareček and Martin Skalský. The film explores the civil rights abuses by the Ilham Aliyev regime of Azerbaijan during the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, such as eminent domain violations in appropriating land for the pipeline's route, and criticism of the government leading to arrest.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Source

   sōrs, n. that from which anything rises or originates: origin: the spring from which a stream flows. [O. Fr. sorse (Fr. source), from sourdre (It. sorgere)—L. surgĕre, to raise up, to rise.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. source

   [very common] In reference to software, source is invariably shorthand for ‘source code’, the preferred human-readable and human-modifiable form of the program. This is as opposed to object code, the derived binary executable form of a program. This shorthand readily takes derivative forms; one may speak of “the sources of a system” or of “having source”.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. source

   1. A person, thing, or activity from which information is obtained. 2. In clandestine activities, a person (agent), normally a foreign national, in the employ of an intelligence activity for intelligence purposes. 3. In interrogation activities, any person who furnishes information, either with or without the knowledge that the information is being used for intelligence purposes. In this context, a controlled source is in the employment or under the control of the intelligence activity and knows that the information is to be used for intelligence purposes. An uncontrolled source is a voluntary contributor of information and may or may not know that the information is to be used for intelligence purposes. See also agent; collection agency.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. source

   The spring or origin of a stream or river, or at least one of the tributaries of supply.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. source

   The known origin.

   The source of the water was found in the mountains and a joyous sight to the eyes of the community.

   Submitted by MaryC on March 17, 2020  

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1. source

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'source' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1080

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'source' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2986

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'source' in Nouns Frequency: #252

Anagrams for source »

1. cerous, 'course, course

2. Course

How to pronounce source?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of source in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of source in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of source in a Sentence

1. The Intercept:

   The source said that Ring employees at times showed each other videos they were annotating and described some of the things they had witnessed, including people kissing, firing guns, and stealing.

2. Cristian Maggio:

   The markets recovered, the calendar is pretty empty, and the market is just waiting for the referendum to be cleared as a source of risk, so everything is leaning in the direction of 'wait and see' until next week.

3. Deborah Nichols:

   When you don't have a lot of resources in the home or a lot of resources to do things outside the home, you're going to spend more time with the resources that you do have, it's an affordable, accessible source of informal learning and a form of entertainment, and I think that's a main reason Deborah Nichols see these differences in screen use between lower-income and higher-income kids.

4. Ken LaGrande:

   Sun Valley Rice now is a fully integrated arm of the family business,' from farm to fork' if you will, we source rice from 200 farms, or about 10 % of the rice crop gown in California. And we handle drying, milling, packaging and marketing of the rice.

5. Greg Barbaccia:

   China remains one of the largest focuses of United States intelligence collection efforts and is only ramping up, the biggest challenge is that the Ministry of State Security (MSS) has a world-class counterintelligence and counterespionage operation. They have access to all the information that flows in, out, and through the country, as well as all possible information on their population. This makes for a supremely difficult environment to run a human source, or employ a technical collection capability.

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