source
nounEtymology
From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgō (“to rise”), which is composed of sub- (“up from below”) + regō (“lead, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-. Doublet of surge.
- derived from *h₃réǵeti✻
- derived from surgō
- derived from sorse
- inherited from sours
Definitions
The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is…
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.
- More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
Spring
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.
- Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
A reporter's informant.
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Source code.
The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it
A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
The domain of a function
The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.
- Coordinate term: target
To obtain or procure
To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes)
To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.
The neighborhood
- synonymwellspring
- synonymparentage
- antonymsinkantonym(s) of “graph theory”
- neighborresource
- neighbortarget
- neighborcrowdsource
- neighbordatasource
- neighborprimary source
- neighborsecondary source
- neighborsource code
- neighbortertiary source
Derived
airmass source region, backsource, biosource, broken source, closed source, closed-source, crowd-source, data source, eigensource, energy source, e-source, inner source, InnerSource, insource, intersource, life-source, light source, microsource, multisource, nanosource, open source, open-source, orphan source, paleosource, point source, power source, quasi-stellar radio source, quasi-stellar radio-source, radio source, sealed source, second source, source-available, sourcebook, source configuration management, source control, source criticism, source document, source domain, sourcehood, source language · +17 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at source. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at source. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at source
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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