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Sounds | sao'rs |
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Rhymes | force, airforce, Bourse, and 26 more rhymes in aors at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | The place where something begins, where it springs into being. |
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Examples | "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River" |
Synonyms | beginning, origin, root, rootage |
Narrower | derivation; spring; fountainhead, headspring, head; headwaters; wellhead, wellspring; jumping-off place, point of departure; birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance; home; point source; trail head, trailhead |
Broader | point |
Meaning | A person who supplies information. |
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Synonyms | informant |
Narrower | informer, betrayer, rat, squealer, blabber; leaker; passive source; whistle blower, whistle-blower, whistleblower |
Broader | communicator |
Meaning | A publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to. |
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Examples | "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation" |
Synonyms | reference |
Broader | publication |
Verbs | source |
Meaning | A document (or organization) from which information is obtained. |
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Examples | "the reporter had two sources for the story" |
Narrower | source materials; well, wellspring, fountainhead |
Broader | document, written document, papers |
Verbs | source |
Meaning | A facility where something is available. |
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Narrower | Golconda; goldmine, gold mine |
Broader | facility, installation |
Verbs | source |
Meaning | Anything that provides inspiration for later work. |
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Synonyms | seed, germ |
Narrower | taproot; muse |
Broader | inspiration |
Meaning | Someone who originates or causes or initiates something. |
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Synonyms | generator, author |
Narrower | coiner |
Broader | maker, shaper |
Meaning | (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system. |
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Examples | "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide" |
Category | engineering, engineering science, applied science, technology |
Broader | natural process, natural action, action, activity |
Contrary | sink |
Meaning | Anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies. |
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Synonyms | reservoir |
Broader | thing |
Meaning | Get (a product) from another country or business. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "She sourced a supply of carpet" |
Narrower | outsource |
Broader | obtain |
Nouns | source |
Meaning | Specify the origin of. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "The writer carefully sourced her report" |
Broader | document |
Nouns | source; source |