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[QUOTE] [B][SIZE="4"]"source"[/SIZE][/B] [B]noun[/B] [LIST=1] [*]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" [syn: [URL="http://www.word.sc/beginning"]beginning[/URL], [URL="http://www.word.sc/origin"]origin[/URL], [URL="http://www.word.sc/root"]root[/URL], [URL="http://www.word.sc/rootage"]rootage[/URL]] [*]a person who supplies information [syn: [URL="http://www.word.sc/informant"]informant[/URL]] [*]a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to; "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation" [syn: [URL="http://www.word.sc/reference"]reference[/URL]] [*]a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story" [*]a facility where something is available [*]anything that provides inspiration for later work [syn: [URL="http://www.word.sc/seed"]seed[/URL], [URL="http://www.word.sc/germ"]germ[/URL]] [*]someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints" [syn: [URL="http://www.word.sc/generator"]generator[/URL], [URL="http://www.word.sc/author"]author[/URL]] [*](technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system; "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide" [ant: [URL="http://www.word.sc/sink"]sink[/URL]] [*]anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies; "an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival" [syn: [URL="http://www.word.sc/reservoir"]reservoir[/URL]] [/LIST] [B]verb[/B] [LIST=1] [*]get (a product) from another country or business; "She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies" [*]specify the origin of; "The writer carefully sourced her report" [/LIST] Source: [URL="http://www.word.sc/source"]http://www.word.sc/source[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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