Sourcenoun
The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
âThe accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling.â;
Originnoun
The beginning of something.
Sourcenoun
Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
âThe main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.â;
Originnoun
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
Sourcenoun
A reporter's informant.
Originnoun
(mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
Sourcenoun
(computing) Source code.
Originnoun
(anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
Sourcenoun
(electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
Originnoun
(cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
Sourceverb
To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
Originnoun
(in the plural) Ancestry.
Sourceverb
(transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source from which it comes: to find a citation for.
Originnoun
The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
âThis mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry.â;
Sourcenoun
The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
âTherefore right as an hawk upon a soursUp springeth into the air, right so prayers . . . Maken their sours to Goddes ears two.â;
Originnoun
That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
Sourcenoun
The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
âWhere as the Poo out of a welle smallTaketh his firste springing and his sours.â; âKings that ruleBehind the hidden sources of the Nile.â;
Originnoun
The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; - in contradistinction to insertion.
âI think he would have set out just as he did, with the origin of ideas - the proper starting point of a grammarian, who is to treat of their signs.â; âFamous Greece,That source of art and cultivated thoughtWhich they to Rome, and Romans hither, brought.â;
Sourcenoun
That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.
âThis source of ideas every man has wholly in himself.â; âThe source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense.â;
Originnoun
the place where something begins, where it springs into being;
âthe Italian beginning of the Renaissanceâ; âJupiter was the origin of the radiationâ; âPittsburgh is the source of the Ohio Riverâ; âcommunism's Russian rootâ;
Sourcenoun
the place where something begins, where it springs into being;
âthe Italian beginning of the Renaissanceâ; âJupiter was the origin of the radiationâ; âPittsburgh is the source of the Ohio Riverâ; âcommunism's Russian rootâ;
Originnoun
properties attributable to your ancestry;
âhe comes from good originsâ;
Sourcenoun
a person who supplies information
Originnoun
an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
Sourcenoun
a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to;
âhe carried an armful of references back to his deskâ; âhe spent hours looking for the source of that quotationâ;
Originnoun
the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
Sourcenoun
a document (or organization) from which information is obtained;
âthe reporter had two sources for the storyâ;
Originnoun
the descendants of one individual;
âhis entire lineage has been warriorsâ;
Sourcenoun
a facility where something is available
Sourcenoun
anything that provides inspiration for later work
Sourcenoun
someone who originates or causes or initiates something;
âhe was the generator of several complaintsâ;
Sourcenoun
(technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system;
âa heat sourceâ; âa source of carbon dioxideâ;
Sourcenoun
anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies;
âan infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survivalâ;
Sourceverb
get (a product) from another country or business;
âShe sourced a supply of carpetâ; âThey are sourcing from smaller companiesâ;
Sourceverb
specify the origin of;
âThe writer carefully sourced her reportâ;