noun. A person or thing from which something comes into being or is derived or obtained.

noun. The point of origin of a stream or river. synonym: origin.

noun. One, such as a person or document, that supplies information.

noun. The point or part of a system where energy or mass is added to the system.

transitive verb. To specify the origin of (a communication); document.

transitive verb. To obtain (materials or parts) from another business, country, or locale for manufacture.

transitive verb. To outsource or insource (tasks or jobs, for example).

noun. A rising; a rise; a soaring.

noun. A spring; a fountainhead; a wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.

noun. A first cause; an origin; one who or that which originates or gives rise to anything.

To rise, as a hawk; swoop; in general, to swoop down; plunge; sink; souse. See souse.

To spring; take rise.

To plunge down; souse.

noun. In geometry, a place of transition from space of n ± 1 into space of n dimensions.

noun. In electricity: That point or region in an electric circuit at which abrupt difference of potential exists so that current flows from it on one side through the circuit and toward it through the circuit from the other side. Thus a dynamo generator, a voltaic cell, or a charged condenser is a source of current in the circuit in which they are placed.

noun. In the case of current flow in plane sheets, a point at which the current enters the sheet.

noun. The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

noun. The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.

noun. That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.

noun. The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

noun. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.

noun. A reporter's informant.

noun. Source code.

noun. The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

verb. To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.

verb. To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.

noun. (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system

verb. get (a product) from another country or business

noun. a person who supplies information

noun. anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies

noun. a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to

verb. specify the origin of

noun. the place where something begins, where it springs into being

noun. a facility where something is available

noun. anything that provides inspiration for later work

noun. someone who originates or causes or initiates something

noun. a document (or organization) from which information is obtained

"From that moment the entire community, abandoning all other plans, give themselves over to hatching their golden egg, experience having taught them that no other source of prosperity can compare with a _source thermale_."

source of a covariant  target  

resource  

insourcing  outsourcing  primary source  secondary source  source code  

document  publication  thing  

Corse  Force  Morse  Norse  bourse  

cause  data  development  element  level  

adviser  ambition  announcer  annunciator  antecedent  

sourced  sources  sourcing