source
Etymology
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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/
source (plural sources)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- (mathematics, category theory) The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.
- Coordinate term: target
- (antonym(s) of “graph theory”): sink
- French: source
- German: Quelle, Ursprung
- Italian: fonte
- Portuguese: origem, fonte
- Russian: исто́чник
- Spanish: fuente
- French: source
- German: Quelle
- Italian: sorgente, fonte
- Portuguese: nascente, cabeceira, exsurgência
- Russian: исто́чник
- Spanish: fuente, fontana (poetic)
source (sources, present participle sourcing; simple past and past participle sourced)
- 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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