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source
English
Etymology
From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surg? (“to rise”). See surge.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /s??s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s??s/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /so(?)?s/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /so?s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)s
- Homophone: sauce (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
Noun
source (plural sources)
- 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.
- (computing) Source code.
- (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
Synonyms
- wellspring
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- resource
Translations
See also
- target
Verb
source (third-person singular simple present sources, present participle sourcing, simple past and past participle sourced)
- (chiefly US) To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
- (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.
Derived terms
- (mainly US): sourcing
- (mainly US): insourcing
- (mainly US): outsourcing
Translations
Further reading
- source in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- source in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- 'course, Couser, Crouse, Crusoe, cerous, coures, course, crouse
French
Etymology
From Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgere (“to rise”). See surge.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su?s/
Noun
source f (plural sources)
- source, spring (of water)
Derived terms
- code source
- couler de source
- eau de source
- langue source
Descendants
- ? Romanian: surs?
Verb
source
- inflection of sourcer:
- first-person singular/third-person singular present indicative/present subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “source” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- coeurs, cœurs
- coures
- course, coursé
- écrous
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headwaters
English
Alternative forms
- head-waters
- head waters
Etymology
head +? waters
Pronunciation
- (Canada) IPA(key): /?h?d?w?t?z/
Noun
headwaters pl (plural only)
- The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
- 1823: James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers
- ... but when his brows began to wrinkle with time, and he stood alone, the last of his family, and his particular tribe, the few Delawares, who yet continued about the head-waters of their river, gave him the mournful appellation of Mohegan.
- 1823: James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers
Translations
References
- “headwater”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Anagrams
- waterheads
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