source
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
source/sɔːs/
▶noun
- 1 a place, person, or thing from which something originates.
■ a spring or fountain head from which a river or stream issues.
- 2 a person who provides information.
■ a book or document providing evidence for research.
- 3 technical a body or process by which energy or a component enters a system. The opposite of sink2.
■ find out where to obtain.
– phrases
at source at the point of origin or issue.
at source at the point of origin or issue.
– origin ME: from OFr. sours(e), past part. of sourdre ‘to rise’, from L. surgere.
'source' also found in these Oxford entries:
ablative
- Aleppo gall
- alerce
- alma mater
- anal
- arc lamp
- ashtanga
- aural
- authoritative
- authority
- avermectin
- backscatter
- battery
- beet
- boast
- bonanza
- bone
- boost
- booster
- boot
- bread
- burn
- burster
- camphor tree
- cannibalize
- canvas
- caraway
- casebook
- clerk
- coca
- column
- come
- command language
- community
- company
- compile
- comptroller
- conjecture
- consolation
- copper
- cork oak
- credit
- cross-check
- currant
- dampen
- delight
- demy
- derivation
- derivative
- derive
