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English

Etymology

From from from {{term|surgo|surgō|lang=la}}.

Pronunciation

IPA: /sɔrs/ (US)
(US)
An audio transcript can be found at en-us-source.ogg

Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɔː(r)s|-ɔː(r)s

Homophones

sores
sauce (in some dialects)

Noun

The origin (of a river, of information, of goods, etc.)
Spring (of water)
A reporter's informant

Derived terms

Related terms

target

Translations

Danish: kilde , udspring
Finnish:
German: {{t+|de|Quelle|f}}, {{t+|de|Ursprung|m}}
Hungarian: ,
Kurdish:
: Sorani: {{t|ku|کانگه|tr=kAnga|sc=KUchar}}, {{t|ku|سه‌رچاوه|tr=sarchAwa|sc=KUchar}}

Portuguese: {{t+|pt|origem|f}}, {{t+|pt|fonte|f}}
Russian: {{t+|ru|источник|m|tr=istóčnik|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t-|ru|исток|m|tr=istók|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t+|ru|ключ|m|tr=kl'uč|sc=Cyrl}}
Scots: soorce

Czech: {{t-|cs|zdroj|m}}
Danish: kilde
Finnish:
German: {{t+|de|Quelle|f}}

Hungarian:
Portuguese: {{t+|pt|fonte|f}}
Russian: {{t+|ru|источник|m|tr=istóčnik|sc=Cyrl}}

: bron
: source
: מקור
: fonto
: sorgente (1), fonte (2)
: fons
: źródło
: zdroj#Slovak|zdroj , prameň
: origen
: sursă (1,2)
: källa (1,2)
: kaynak (1,2)
: shrotahs

Verb

In the Context of to obtain or procure; used especially of a business resource
To corroborate a statement with references.

Translations

Finnish: sorsastaa (slang), hankkia
German: ,

Derived terms

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French

Pronunciation

An audio transcript can be found at Fr-source.ogg

Noun

#Noun|source

Anagrams

bg:source ca:source de:source et:source el:source fa:source fr:source ko:source io:source id:source it:source kk:source ku:source lo:source lt:source hu:source pl:source pt:source ru:source simple:source fi:source ta:source te:source vi:source tr:source zh:source

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.]
[1913 Webster]

Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours
Up springeth into the air, right so prayers . . .
Maken their sours to Goddes ears two. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]

2. The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of
water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
[1913 Webster]

Where as the Poo out of a welle small
Taketh his firste springing and his sours.
--Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]

Kings that rule
Behind the hidden sources of the Nile. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]

3. That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its
cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates;
first cause.
[1913 Webster]

This source of ideas every man has wholly in
himself. --Locke.
[1913 Webster]

The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense.
--Pope.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: See Origin.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet source
n 1: 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" [syn: beginning, origin, root, rootage]
2: a person who supplies information [syn: informant]
3: 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" [syn: reference]
4: a document (or organization) from which information is
obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story"
5: a facility where something is available
6: anything that provides inspiration for later work [syn: seed,
germ]
7: someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he
was the generator of several complaints" [syn: generator,
author]
8: (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters
a system; "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide"
[ant: sink]
9: 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"
[syn: reservoir]
v 1: get (a product) from another country or business; "She
sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from
smaller companies"
2: specify the origin of; "The writer carefully sourced her
report"

Moby Dictionary
adviser , ambition , announcer , annunciator , antecedent , aspiration ,
author , authority , authorship , basis , begetter , beginning ,
birthplace , bonanza , calling , cause , channel , commencement ,
communicant , communicator , conception , consideration , cornucopia ,
creator , dawn , dawning , derivation , determinant , documentation ,
enlightener , expert witness , font , fount , fountain , fountainhead ,
genesis , goal , gold mine , gossipmonger , grapevine , grass roots ,
ground , guiding light , guiding star , head , headstream , headwater ,
headwaters , ideal , inception , informant , information center ,
information medium , informer , inspiration , intention , interviewee ,
lode , lodestar , mainspring , matter , mine , monitor , mother , motive ,
mouthpiece , newsmonger , notifier , onset , opening , origin , original ,
origination , originator , outset , parent , paternity , press ,
principle , provenance , provenience , public relations officer ,
publisher , quarry , radical , radio , radix , reason , reporter ,
resource , rise , rising , riverhead , root , roots , rootstock , sake ,
score , source of supply , spokesman , spring , staple , start ,
starting , stem , stock , taproot , television , teller , tipster , tout ,
ulterior motive , vein , vocation , well , wellhead , wellspring ,
whence , witness

Jargon source n. [very common] In reference to software, `source' is
invariably shorthand for `source code', the preferred human-readable and
human-modifiable form of the program. This is as opposed to object code,
the derived binary executable form of a program. This shorthand readily
takes derivative forms; one may speak of "the sources of a system" or of
"having source".

FOLDOC source

source code