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Verb
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sources, plural;
  1. Obtain from a particular source
    • - each type of coffee is sourced from one country
  2. Find out where (something) can be obtained
    • - she was called upon to source a supply of carpet
Noun
  1. A place, person, or thing from which something comes or can be obtained
    • - mackerel is a good source of fish oil
  2. A spring or fountainhead from which a river or stream issues
    • - the source of the Nile
  3. A person who provides information
    • - military sources announced a reduction in strategic nuclear weapons
  4. A book or document used to provide evidence in research

  5. A body or process by which energy or a particular component enters a system

  6. A part of a field-effect transistor from which carriers flow into the inter-electrode channel


  1. beginning: the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
  2. get (a product) from another country or business; "She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies"
  3. a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story"
  4. specify the origin of; "The writer carefully sourced her report"
  5. anything that provides inspiration for later work
  6. a facility where something is available
  7. Source is the second album by melodic death metal band The Duskfall. The album was released on December 30, 2003, it was re-released along with previous album Frailty on August 22, 2005 and included three bonus tracks that are re-recorded versions of songs from the band's second demo.
  8. The Source was a metaphysical concept created by writer/artist Jack Kirby for his Fourth World series of comic books. It first appeared in New Gods #1, (February 1971).
  9. Source is a Unix command that evaluates a file or resource as a Tcl script. When a return statement is reached, the script ends. Some bash scripts should be run using the source your-script syntax, e.g. ...
  10. Source UK Services Ltd., or simply Source, is a specialist European-based provider of exchange-traded products (ETPs), including exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and exchange-traded commodities (ETCs). ...
  11. Source is a 3D game engine developed by Valve Corporation. It debuted in June 2004 with '' and shortly thereafter Half-Life 2. ...
  12. A directed graph or digraph is a pair (sometimes) of: * a set V, whose elements are called vertices or nodes, * a set A of ordered pairs of vertices, called arcs, directed edges, or arrows (and sometimes simply edges with the corresponding set named E instead of A).
  13. The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired; Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates; A reporter's informant; Source code; to obtain or procure; used ...
  14. (Sources) Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, UCLA; American Guidance Service; Harcourt, Inc.; Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U. S. Department of Education. ...
  15. (Sources) Boeing 747 specifications,^[188] 747 airport planning report,^[189] 747-8 airport brochure^[190]
  16. (SOURCES) Comparative Energy Evaluation of Plastic Products and Their Alternatives for the Building and Construction and Transportation Industries. Franklin Associates, Ltd. ...
  17. (3. Sources) The sources of the two accounts cannot be known with certainty. It is hardly correct to say that one account is more original than the other. The original was spoken in Aramaic, while both of the reports are certainly based on Greek sources. ...
  18. (SOURCES) adapted from Charles Abrams, The Language of Cities: A Glossary of Terms (Viking, 1971). Updated from Julie Ann Gustanski and Roderick H. Squires, eds. Protecting the Land (Island Press, 2000) and Loring LaB. Schwarz, ed., Greenways (Island Press, 1993).
  19. (Sources) "Earth Day: Seattleites Discuss Plight of Planet," The Seattle Times, April 22, 1970, p. C-1; "Comments, Food Returned by Solon," Spokane Daily Chronicle, April 23, 1970. P. 5; Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. ...
  20. (Sources) (Hrabalova et al., 2005), (Nieberg and Kuhnert, 2006) and (Tuson and Lampkin, 2007).
  21. (Sources) 1. Australian Communications and Media Authority (September 2008). "Access to the internet, broadband and mobile phones in family households." Media and Communications in Australian Families series (No. 3).
  22. (Sources) A term used to describe a list of referenced works in a report or research paper, also referred to as Works Cited, Bibliography, or References, depending upon the report style.
  23. (Sources) American Dental Association, American Association of Orthodontists
  24. (Sources) Amy E. Ansell, ed. Unraveling the Right: The New Conservatism in American Thought and Politics (Westview Press, 1998); Chip Berlet and Matthew Lyons, Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort (Guilford Press, 2000); Sara Diamond, Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and ...
  25. (Sources) Arthur B Mays, The Problem of Industrial Education (NY: The Century Co, 1927; Ray StombaughA Survey Of The Movements Culminating In Industrial Arts Education In Secondary Schools Teachers College, Columbia University Contributions To Education. No. 670 1936,