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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