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noun

1 source

The place where something begins, where it springs into being:
— Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River.

synonyms: beginning, origin, root, rootage.

Roget 66: beginning, commencement, opening, outset, incipience, inception, inchoation; introduction etc. (precursor) 64; alpha, initial; inauguration, ... show more

Roget 153: cause, origin, source, principle, element; occasioner, prime mover, primum mobile [Lat.]; vera causa [Lat.]; author etc. (producer) 164; mainspring; ... show more

Dutch: bron, begin, kiem, oerbron, oorsprong, origine, wortel
Polish: poczÄ…tek

2 source

A document (or organization) from which information is obtained.

Dutch: bron, informatiebron

3 source

Anything that provides inspiration for later work.

synonyms: germ, seed.

Dutch: inspiratiebron

4 source

A facility where something is available.

5 source

A person who supplies information.

synonym: informant.

Dutch: informant, zegsman
Polish: informator

6 source

Someone who originates or causes or initiates something.

synonyms: author, generator.

7 source

technology A process by which energy or a substance enters a system.

8 source

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

synonym: reservoir.

9 source

A publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to:
— He spent hours looking for the source of that quotation.

synonym: reference.

verb

1 source

Get (a product) from another country or business.

2 source

Specify the origin of.


Moby thesaurus: adviser, ambition, announcer, annunciator, antecedent, aspiration, author, authority, authorship, basis, begetter, beginning, birthplace, bonanza, calling, cause, channel, commencement, communicant, communicator ... show more.

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