source
pronunciation
How to pronounce source in British English:
UK [sɔːs]
How to pronounce source in American English:
US [sɔːrs]
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- Noun:
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- a person who supplies information
- a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to
- a document (or organization) from which information is obtained
- a facility where something is available
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something
- (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system
- anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies
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- Verb:
- get (a product) from another country or business
- specify the origin of
Word Origin
- source
- source: [14] A source is etymologically something that has ‘surged’ up. The word comes from Old French sourse ‘spring’, a noun use of the feminine past participle of sourdre ‘rise, spring’. This in turn was descended from Latin surgere ‘rise’, source of English surge. The notion of the ‘place where a watercourse springs from the ground’ led on naturally to the metaphorical ‘place of origin’.=> surge
- source (n.)
- mid-14c., "support, base," from Old French sourse "a rising, beginning, fountainhead of a river or stream" (12c.), fem. noun taken from past participle of sourdre "to rise, spring up," from Latin surgere "to rise" (see surge (n.)). Meaning "a first cause" is from late 14c., as is that of "fountain-head of a river." Meaning "person or written work supplying information or evidence" is by 1777.
- source (v.)
- "obtain from a specified source," 1972, from source (n.). Related: Sourced; sourcing.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Some issues , like source code , were extremely complex .
- 2. Their source was a " facebook insider . "
- 3. Source : scott olson / getty images
- 4. Source : mark wilson / getty images
- 5. And managing source code may happen via bitbucket , github , or a system like subversion .