source

IPA: sˈɔrs

noun

  • The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
  • Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
  • A reporter's informant.
  • (computing) Source code.
  • (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  • (graph theory) A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.

verb

  • To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
  • (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.
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Examples of "source" in Sentences

  • Most of it is sourced to adulatory sources.
  • The root of the tree is the source of the broadcast.
  • Passion is the source of hope and the cause of despair.
  • If the source is libellous, take it up with the source.
  • The beginning of a sprinkler system is the water source.
  • An unidentified source ignited the gas and caused the explosion.
  • She is the principle, the source, the root of ineffable good things.
  • The roots of the Acacia kempeana shrub are another source of the grubs.
  • Do you have a source that the beginning of the song was inspired by Bonanza
  • The medial root of median nerve is one of the two sources of the median nerve.

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