English
source
Etymology

From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse, from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgō, which is composed of sub- + regō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti, from the root *h₃reǵ-.

Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /sɔːs/
  • (America) IPA: /sɔɹs/
  • (rhotic, non-horse-hoarse) IPA: /so(ː)ɹs/
  • (non-rhotic, non-horse-hoarse) IPA: /soəs/
  • IPA: /suːɹs/, /sʊɹs/
Noun

source (plural sources)

  1. The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
    The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling.
  2. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
    The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.
  3. A reporter's informant.
  4. (computing) Source code.
  5. (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  6. (graph theory) A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
  7. (mathematics, category theory) The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.
    Coordinate term: target
Synonyms Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of “graph theory”): sink
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source (sources, present participle sourcing; simple past and past participle sourced)

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