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Source

noun

1.

The place where something begins, where it springs into being. Synonyms: beginning, origin, root, rootage. "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation" , "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River" , "Communism's Russian root"

2.

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

3.

Anything that provides inspiration for later work. Synonyms: germ, seed.

4.

A facility where something is available.

5.

A person who supplies information. Synonym: informant.

6.

Someone who originates or causes or initiates something. Synonyms: author, generator.

7.

(technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system. "A source of carbon dioxide"

8.

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

9.

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

verb

1.

Get (a product) from another country or business. "They are sourcing from smaller companies"

2.

Specify the origin of.

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... Calvin's "comparative neglect of dogma," of his seizing the idea of a "real reformation of human character," a "moral purification of humanity," as the guiding idea of his system. Can anything be more unhistorical than to suggest that the father and source of all Western Puritan theology "neglected dogma," and was more of a moralist than a divine? It is not even true that he "swept away at once the sacramental machinery" of mediaeval and Lutheran teaching; Calvin writes of the Eucharist in terms which would astonish some of ...

— Occasional Papers - Selected from The Guardian, The Times, and The Saturday Review, - 1846-1890 • R.W. Church

... most awful voice, "it's a constant source of amazement to me why I refrain from firing you. You say Andrews has never been tested. Why hasn't he been tested? Why are we maintaining untested material in this shop, anyhow? Eh? Answer me that. Tut, tut, tut! Not a peep ...

— The Go-Getter • Peter B. Kyne

... not a source, *of knowledge*. It is analogous to sight and hearing. It is the power of perceiving fitness and unfitness. Yet more, it is consciousness,—a sense of our own personal relation to the fitting and the unfitting, of our ...

— A Manual of Moral Philosophy • Andrew Preston Peabody

... than the nuts from the parent tree, and that the English walnut will grow and bear when grafted on practically every species of walnut, black walnut, butternut, and Japan walnut, and it seems likely that this orchard will be a source of knowledge for us for ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting - Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922 • Various

... hope to understand the almost universal custom of the "woman shunned" and the sex taboos of primitive peoples. This dualism appears most strongly in the attitude toward woman; for while she was the natural object of the powerful sexual instinct she was quite as much the source of fear because she was generally supposed to be endowed with spiritistic forces and in league with supernatural powers. During the long period when the fact of paternity was unrecognized, the power of reproduction ...

— Taboo and Genetics • Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard

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