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source

See also:sourcé

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Etymology

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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,orthingfrom which something (information, goods, etc.)comesor isacquired.
    The accused refused to reveal thesourceof the illegal drugs she was selling.
    • 2006,Edwin Black,chapter 2, inInternal Combustion‎[2]:
      More than a meresourceof Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
    • 2013July 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 newsourcesof return.
  2. Spring;fountainhead;wellhead;any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
    The mainsourcesof the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.
    • 1969July 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 ofNgạch ngươi tề tư sông lưu vực phong mạobyNiệm trừng(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 thesourceof 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.
      Quốc gia của ta Tân Cương ngạch ngươi tề tư hà, khởi nguyên với nguy nga a ngươi Thái Sơn phía Đông,[…]
      Ngạch ngươi tề tư hà toàn trường 2900 nhiều km, nó lưu vực diện tích thực quảng, ở nó lưu vực rộng lớn thổ địa thượng, ẩn chứa phong phú bảo tàng, trong đó có kim, thiết, đồng, chì, kẽm, thủy ngân, vân mẫu, băng châu thạch, thủy tinh chờ.
      Ngạch ngươi tề tư hà nơi khởi nguyên a ngươi Thái Sơn, cũng là quốc gia của ta danh sơn, độ cao so với mặt biển 3000 mễ trở lên, sơn hàng năm tuyết đọng, mùa hè nước mưa rất nhiều.
    • 2013August 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 oneterminalof afield effecttransistor(FET).
  6. (graph theory)Anodein adirected graphwhose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
  7. (mathematics,category theory)Thedomainof a function; theobjectwhich amorphismpoints from.
    Coordinate term:target

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

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Verb

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

  1. Toobtainorprocure:used especially of abusinessresource.
    • 2023July 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 couldsourcefrom 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 acitationfor.

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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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Etymology

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FromEnglishsource.

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source(Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. source(person, place, thing)
  2. (universityslang)sourcematerialused forcopyingorplagiarism

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Etymology

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

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sourcef(pluralsources)

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

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  • →Romanian:sursă

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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