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English Dictionary: source	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for source
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
source n the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" Synonym(s): beginning, origin, root, rootage, source a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story" anything that provides inspiration for later work Synonym(s): source, seed, germ a facility where something is available a person who supplies information Synonym(s): informant, source someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints" Synonym(s): generator, source, author (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system; "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide" Antonym(s): sink anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies; "an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival" Synonym(s): reservoir, source a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to; "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation" Synonym(s): reference, source v get (a product) from another country or business; "She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies" specify the origin of; "The writer carefully sourced her report"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Source \Source\, n. [OE. sours, OF. sourse, surse, sorse, F. source, fr. OF. sors, p. p. of OF. sordre, surdre, sourdre, to spring forth or up, F. sourdre, fr. L. surgere to lift or raise up, to spring up. See {Surge}, and cf. {Souse} to plunge or swoop as a bird upon its prey.] 1. The act of rising; a rise; an ascent. [Obs.] Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours Up springeth into the air, right so prayers . . . Maken their sours to Goddes ears two. --Chaucer. 2. The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain. Where as the Poo out of a welle small Taketh his firste springing and his sours. --Chaucer. Kings that rule Behind the hidden sources of the Nile. --Addison. 3. That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause. This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself. --Locke. The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense. --Pope. Syn: See {Origin}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
source {source code}