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Definition: Source

Source

Noun

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".

2. A person who supplies information.

3. 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".

4. A document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story".

5. A facility where something is available.

6. Anything that provides inspiration for later work.

7. Someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "source" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Source \Source\, noun. [from Old English expression sours, Old French sourse, surse, sorse, French source, from the Old French expression sors, past participle of Old French sordre, surdre, sourdre, to spring forth or up, French sourdre, from the Latin expression surgere to lift or raise up, to spring up. See Surge, and compare to Souse to plunge or swoop as bird upon its prey.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Source

DomainDefinition

Computing

Source n. [very common] In reference to software, `source' is invariably shorthand for `source code', the preferred human-readable and human-modifiable form of the program. This is as opposed to object code, the derived binary executable form of a program. This shorthand readily takes derivative forms; one may speak of "the sources of a system" or of "having source". Source: Jargon File.

Aerospace

1. The location or device from which energy emanates as a sound source, heat source , etc. 2. Specifically, in the mathematical representation of fluid flow, a hypothetical point or place from which fluid emanates. The strength of a source; the rate of mass flow of unit density across a curve enclosing the source is given by Q = 2p r vr where r is the distance from the source and vr is the radial speed.3. Specifically, the device which supplies signal power to a transducer. (references)

Electrical Engineering

A region from which the majority carriers flow into the channel. Source: European Union. (references)
 The light emitter, either an LED or laser diode, in a fibre optic link. Source: European Union. (references)
 The region of a field-effect transistor from which current flows into the channel, according to the drain resistance which is a function of the gate voltage. Source: European Union. (references)

Environment

Any place or object from which air pollutants are released. Sources that are fixed in space are stationary sources; sources that move are mobile sources. See also major source. (references)
 Any factory or other plant, furnace, chemical process, etc. that discharges pollutants into the air ; any process or activity which releases a greenhouse gas, an aerosol or a precursor of a greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. Source: European Union. (references)

Geography

The point of origin of a stream of water. Source: European Union. (references)

Geological

The released forces that generate acoustic or seismic waves, also called the earthquake source. (references)

Math

(1) A vertex of a directed graph with no incoming edges. More formally, a vertex with in-degree 0. (2) The vertex from which an edge of a directed graph leaves. (references)

Military

In intelligence usage, a person from whom or thing from which information can be obtained. See also agency; agent. (references)

Mining

A. In seismic prospecting either: (1) the point of origin or shot from which elastic waves are propagated, or (2) the formation, horizon, interface, or boundary at which a seismic wave is refracted and/or reflected and returned to the surface. In earthquake seismology, the point of origin of an earthquake. In neutron logging, the source of neutrons at one end of the logging tool b. A radioactive material packaged to produce radiation for experimental or industrial use. (references)

Nuclear Energy & Physics

An apparatus or substance capable of emitting ionizing radiation. Source: European Union. (references)

Post & Telecom

A signalling point in which a common channel signalling message is generated. Source: European Union. (references)

Weather

Any process or activity that releases a greenhouse gas, an aerosol, or a precursor of a greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. See point source, non-point source. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Source

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The word source has more than one meaning:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Source."

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Source code

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Source code (commonly just code) refers to any series of statements written in some human readable computer programming language. In modern programming languages, the source code which constitutes a software program is usually in several computer files, but the same source code may be printed in a book or recorded on tape (usually without a filesystem). The term is typically used in the context of a particular piece of computer software. A computer program's source code is the collection of files that can be converted from human-readable form to an equivalent computer-executable form. The source code is either converted into object code by an assembler or compiler for a particular computer architecture, or executed from the human readable form with the aid of an interpreter.

Purposes

Thus, source code is either used to produce object code, or to be run by an interpreter. Modifications are not carried out on object code, but on source code, and then converted again.

An other important purpose of source code is for the description of software. Also, source code has a number of other uses. It can be used as a tool of learning; beginning programmers often find it helpful to review existing source code to learn about programming techniques and methodology. It is also used as a communication tool between experienced programmers, due to its (ideally) concise and unambiguous nature. The sharing of source code between developers is frequently cited as a contributing factor to the maturation of their programming skills. Source code can be an expressive artistic medium; consider, for example, obfuscated code or PerlMonks.Org.

Source code is a vital component in the activity of porting software to alternative computer platforms. Without the source code for a particular piece of software, portability is generally so difficult as to be impractical and even impossible. Programmers frequently borrow source code from one piece of software to use in other projects, a concept which is known as Software reusability.

Organization

The source code for a particular piece of software may be contained in a single file or many files. A program's source code is not necessarily all written in the same programming language; for example, it is common for a program to be written primarily in the C programming language, with some portions written in Assembly language for optimization purposes. It is also possible for some components of a piece of software to be written and compiled separately, in an arbitrary programming language, and later integrated into the software using a technique called library linking.

Moderately complex software customarily requires the compilation or assembly of several, sometimes dozens or even hundreds, of different source code files. This complexity is reduced considerably by the inclusion of a Makefile with the source code, which describes the relationships among the source code files, and contains information about how they are to be compiled. The Revision control system is another tool frequently used by developers for source code maintenance.

Licensing

Software, and its accompanying source code, typically falls within one of two licensing paradigms: Free software and Proprietary software. Generally speaking, software is free if the source code is freely available, and proprietary if the source code is kept secret, or is privately owned and restricted. The provisions of the various copyright laws are often used for this purpose, though trade secrecy is also relied upon. For a further discussion of the differences between these paradigms, and the divisions within them, see software license.

Legal Issues

As of 2003, court systems are in the process of deciding whether source code should be considered a Constitutionally protected form of free speech in the United States. Proponents of the free speech argument claim that because source code conveys information to programmers, is written in a language, and can be used to share humour and other artistic pursuits, it is a protected form of communication. The opposing view is that source code is functional, more than artistic speech, and is thus not protected by First Amendment Rights of the U.S. Constitution.

One of the first court cases regarding the nature of source code as free speech involved University of California mathematics professor Dan Bernstein, who had published on the internet the source code for an encryption program that he created. At the time, encryption algorithms were classified as munitions by the United States government; exporting encryption to other countries was considered an issue of national security, and had to be approved by the State Department. The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the U.S. government on Bernstein's behalf; the court ruled that source code was free speech, protected by the First Amendment.

In 2000, in a related court case, the issue was again brought under some scrutiny when the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) sued the 'hacker' magazine 2600 and a number of other websites for distributing the source code to DeCSS, an algorithm capable of decrypting scrambled DVD discs. The algorithm was developed to allow people to play legally purchased DVDs on the Linux operating system, which had no DVD software at the time. The US District court decision favored the MPAA; 2600 magazine was prohibited from posting or linking to the source code on their website. This ruling was widely considered a victory for the supporters of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, as it established a legal precedent for the notion that source code is not Constitutionally protected free speech. It was affirmed by the Appeals Court and as of late 2003 is being appealed to the US Supreme Court.

See also: Programming language, Legacy code

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Source

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
SODAEnglishSource Oriented Data AcquisitionInformation

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Source

Synonyms: author (n), beginning (n), generator (n), germ (n), informant (n), origin (n), reference (n), root (n), rootage (n), seed (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Source

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Beginning

Origin; (cause); source, rise; bud, germ; egg, rudiment; genesis, primogenesis, birth, nativity, cradle, infancy; start, inception, creation, starting point; dawn; (morning); evolution.

Cause

Noun: cause, origin, source, principle, element; occasioner, prime mover, primum mobile; vera causa; author; (producer); mainspring; agent; leaven; groundwork, foundation; (support).

Danger

Cause for alarm; source of danger. rock ahead, breakers ahead; storm brewing; clouds in the horizon, clouds gathering; warning; alarm.

Hate

Repugnance; (dislike); misanthropy, demonophobia, gynephobia, negrophobia; odium, unpopularity; detestation, antipathy; object of hatred, object of execration; abomination, aversion, b_te noire; enemy; bitter pill; source of annoyance.

Pain

Source of irritation, source of annoyance; wound, open sore; sore subject, skeleton in the closet; thorn in the flesh, thorn in one's side; where the shoe pinches, gall and wormwood.

Physical Pleasure

Source of pleasure; happiness. (mental enjoyment).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Source

English words defined with "source": light sourcepoint sourcesource of illuminationultraviolet source. (references)
Specialty definitions using "source": Area Source, Asset Source for Software Engineering TechnologyDelivered Source Instruction, discrete radio sourceEiffel source checker, energy source, extragalactic radio source, extra-galactic radio sourcemajor source, Mobile Source, monopole sourceNew Source, Non-point source, Nonpoint source pollution, non-point source pollutionomnidirectional source, open source, Open Source Definition, Open Source Initiative, Open source licensePoint source pollution, power source, pulverised source, pulverized sourceRadiation sourcesecondary dust source, Significant Potential Source of Contamination, silicon source, silicon-monoxide source, Source Characterization Measurements, source code escrow, Source material, source of all good bits, Source of contamination, source package, Source Reduction, source route, source routing, Source Selection Evaluation Board, source selection official, super source quenchtax deducted at sourceUse the Source LukeWater Source Heat Pump. (references)
Etymologies containing "source": Sours. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Source" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (fount, fountain, rise, root, source, spring, well).

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Modern Usage: Source

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

You have access to the greatest source of knowledge in the universe (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

Get another source. (All the President's Men; writing credit: Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward)

According to my source, the end of the world will be on February 14th, in the year two thousand and sixteen (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

And I heard it all from a very reliable source, and don't bother to deny it (Balto; writing credit: David Cohen; Elana Lesser)

Lyrics

See me in the Vibe, see me in The Source (Take Your Time; performing artist: HOT)

Clever

The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Movie/TV Titles

On the Come Up at the Source Awards (2001)

The Source (1918)

La Source (1900)

Printemps à la source (2003)

Highlander: The Source (2003)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Source

DomainTitle

References

  • 1st Source Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • PC Service Source, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Source Information Management: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Source Media, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Media Source, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source (reference)

  • Griffonia: A Premier Source of 5-Htp (Woodland Health Ser) (reference)

  • The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (reference)

  • Birnbaum's Walt Disney World 2003: Expert Advice from the Inside Source (Birnbaum's Walt Disney World, 2003) (reference)

  • A Source Book in Apl: Papers by Adin D. Falkoff and Kenneth E. Iverson (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • On the Come Up at the Source Awards (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Source

Photos:
Source

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Photo Album: Source

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

One of the many uses for the laser in medical research is as a light source to detect premalignant and malignant cells in a Pap smear. Shown here are gynecologic cells passing in a stream through the laser beam where each cell is analyzed. Abnormal-appearing cells can be sorted from the rest of the cells and later examined by a pathologist for evidence of cancer. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Seen is a "beam of light" traveling along fiber optics for photodynamic therapy for use in an operating room. Its source is a laser beam which is split at two different stages to create the proper "therapeutic wavelength". The patient has been given a photo sensitive drug containing cancer killing substances which are absorbed by cancer cells. During the surgery, the light beam is positioned at the tumor site, which then activates the drug that kills the cancer cells, thus photodynamic therapy. Credit: John Crawford (photographer).

Utraviolet Light Source in an Old Galaxy. Credit: NASA.

The energy source needed to create and maintain the galactic jet in galaxy PKS 0521-36 is ... Credit: NASA.

C. M. Durgin and P. C. Doran inspecting record book Looking for source of error in computations. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Power source for hoisting steel Jack up truck and use "fifth wheel" This could be dangerous - at least one leg broken by getting wrapped up Safety modifications made to system after individual severely injured Triangulation party of Paul A. Smith. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Pickerel weed (Pondeteria cordata) marsh in the Patuxent River. Found in freshwater tidal marshes, it is a source of food for deer. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Several schools of Alewives, or "bait fish", can be seen breaking the surface on a calm Chesapeake Bay day. These fish are an important food source for Rockfish , Bluefish, and other large fish in the bay. Bay Bridge can be seen in the background. Credit: America's Coastlines.

High school volunteers take donor plants to start a wetland nursery. Wetland nurseries are designed to create a source of native plants to be used in the Tampa Bay estuary. Native species are taken from a donor site, transplanted to nurseries established by local schools and are used in wetland restoration projects. Some nursery plants then become the donor stock for upcoming projects. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Sea Oxeye, Borrichia frutescens, a common high marsh plant in southern marshes, is a good nectar source for coastal butterflies. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Source
 

"The source" by Paul Fris
Commentary: "Short piece of javascript source code on lcd screen. Taken at the closest possible range: 0 mm."
"Sony Ericsson 2" by Luis Carlos Araujo
Commentary: "Experimentation through macro + light source."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Source".

PlayCaption
Beginning; start; commencement; day one; embark; embarkation; first step; inauguration; inception; initiation; jump off; jumping-off place; kickoff; onset; opening; origin; outset; setting out; source; springboard; square one; start off; takeoff; starting.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Source

AuthorQuotation

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Fyodor Dostoevski

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Heraclitus

Strife is the source and the master of all things.

Homer

Ocean, who is the source of all.

Horace

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Johann L. Von Mosheim

Renown is a source of toil and sorrow; obscurity is a source of happiness.

Oscar Wilde

Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

President Calvin Coolidge

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

Thomas Carlyle

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Source

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

Those who say otherwise, speak as if the prince had a distinct and separate interest from the good of the community, and was not made for it; the root and source from which spring almost all those evils and disorders which happen in kingly governments. (Second Treatise of Government)

Amendment to US Constitution

1795-2013

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Source

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

I am sure it was a source of high entertainment to you, to feel that you were taking us all in.

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

But he was back in a few moments, having discarded his broom and provided himself, from some mysterious source, with an exquisite bouquet of flowers

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

And perhaps you will find in it the source of the fortune adroitly presented by Jean Valjean to Madame the Baroness

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Source

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The richest natural source is yeast. (references)

Low-fat milk is a good source of protein. (references)

Don’t be a source of foodborne illness yourself. (references)

Business

Media quotations with source attributions are encouraged. (references)

For the moment Internet represents a good source of income. (references)

These fundamentals are the source for China's latent demand. (references)

Children

Tonga

Child abuse is rare and has not become a source of concern in a society in which the extended family participates in child rearing. (references)

Jordan

Selling newspapers, tissues, small food items, or gum, the vendors, along with the other children who pick through trash dumpsters to find recyclable cans to sell, sometimes are the sole source of income for their families. (references)

Peru

However, during the year Congress increased the annual budget allocated to integrate persons with disabilities into the economy from $250,000 to $457,000. Although the law prohibits discrimination in the workplace, it is vague regarding the source of funds to pay for the human assistance, technological support, and environmental adaptations that often are necessary to enable workers with disabilities to be productive. (references)

Civil Liberties

Senegal

A government monopoly controls local television, an important source of news. (references)

Yugoslavia

These stations have some editorial biases, but BK is considered to be a respected news source. (references)

Egypt

Under the Constitution, Islam is the official state religion and primary source of legislation. (references)

Economic History

India

Source : Unofficial estimates. (references)

Benin

France is Benin's leading source for imports. (references)

Guyana

Investors are not required to source locally. (references)

Human Rights

Colombia

Kidnaping continued to be an unambiguous, standing policy and major source of revenue for both the FARC and ELN. (references)

Ghana

The 64th regiment, which previously guarded former President Rawlings, was the reported source of many human rights abuses. (references)

Ukraine

The investigation of the killing officially still was ongoing at year's end and remained a source of great concern to observers. (references)

Indigenous People

Suriname

Mercury runoff from these operations also contaminates and threatens traditional food source areas. (references)

Sri Lanka

Although many Veddas continue to pursue a traditional way of life, visits by tourists have become an important source of income for the community. (references)

Indonesia

Land disputes are a major source of tension throughout the country, particularly in many sparsely populated resource-rich areas traditionally inhabited by indigenous people. (references)

Minorities

Czech Republic

The site of a former Romani concentration camp at Lety continued to be a source of controversy. (references)

China

Racial discrimination is the source of deep resentment on the part of minorities in some areas, such as Xinjiang and Tibet. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

Differences between the majority Fang ethnic group and the Bubi ethnic minority are a source of political tension and historically have erupted into frequent violence. (references)

Political Economy

Yemen

Oil is the primary source of foreign exchange. (references)

Cuba

Tourism remained a key source of revenue for the Government. (references)

Central African Republic

Foreign assistance is an important source of national income. (references)

Political Rights

Zimbabwe

Civil servants have been the Government's traditional source for domestic election monitors. (references)

China

In general, the election and agenda of people's congresses at all levels remain under the firm control of the CCP, the paramount source of political authority. (references)

Trade

Greece

Banks constitute the main source of financing. (references)

Travel

Greece

Bottled water is recommended in small villages and the islands, as the water source may be limited and not well treated. (references)

Kenya

Local distributors/representatives should serve as a good source of local market requirement information and as appraisers of product market acceptance. (references)

Korea

As alumni contacts are a major source of networking in Korea, a particularly well-connected Korean will have attended a prestigious Korean university like Yonsei University, Seoul National University, Korea University, or Ehwa Women's University. (references)

Women

Tuvalu

Domestic violence is rising, but it is still relatively infrequent and has not become a source of societal concern. (references)

Cameroon

Refusal means that she must repay the bride price in full (she usually has no source of funds) and leave the family property. (references)

Lebanon

Possible loss of custody of children and the absence of an independent source of income also prevent women from leaving their husbands. (references)

Worker Rights

Poland

Ukraine is the largest single source of foreign women trafficked in Poland. (references)

Honduras

Honduras is primarily a source country for trafficked children to neighboring countries. (references)

Poland

Poland is a source, transit, and destination country for the trafficking of women and girls. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source -- the first words of the ancient Latin hymn Te Deum Laudamus. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Source

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Jan Ronis

Well, it's a misdemeanor. But keep in mind, it's now, I think, been convincingly proven by the defense that it was the son was the most likely source of the download of that pornography.

Rush Limbaugh

The Times counters the media's gushing over McCain's supposedly principled stand, and says the true source of his opposition may lie with a company named Argenbright Security.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Source

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809The commerce with the Indians, too, within our own boundaries is likely to receive abundant aliment from the same internal source, and will secure to them peace and the progress of civilization, undisturbed by practices hostile to both.

James Monroe

1817-1825Deeply impressed with the blessings which we enjoy, and of which we have such manifold proofs, my mind is irresistibly drawn to that Almighty Being, the great source from whence they proceed and to whom our most grateful acknowledgments are due.

Calvin Coolidge

1923-1929Unless the desire for peace be cherished there, unless this fundamental and only natural source of brotherly love be cultivated to its highest degree, all artificial efforts will be in vain.

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953This formula was based on the policy of the United States that people be permitted to choose their own form of government by their own freely expressed choice without interference from any foreign source.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969But communism is not the only source of trouble and unrest.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981Yet the Federal Government itself may not always be the proper source of such assistance.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Now this a source of great annoyance to some, especially those in the Democratic party.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001So we've got to streamline today's patchwork of training programs and make them a source of new skills for our people who lose their jobs.

George W. Bush

2001-2005About half of all dividend income goes to America's seniors, and they often rely on those checks for a steady source of income in their retirement.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Source

"Source" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Source" is used about 9,078 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%9,0781,050

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Source

CountryName
USA

1st Source Corporation

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Source

Expressions using "source": a reliable source asset Source for Software Engineering Technology cataloguing in source delivered Source Instruction Eiffel source checker emission source emitting source energy source extragalactic radio source from a reliable source have it's source in interference source interfering source light source liquid source message source monochromatic light source monopole source new source of energy omnidirectional source open source open Source Definition open Source Initiative open source license point source power source pressure source primary source product source information message pulverised source pulverized source radio source reference source renewable energy source SDH equipment timing source sequence identifier source code silicon source source alphabet source animal source book source cell source code source code escrow source column source disk source document source field source interval source language source material source materials source of all good bits source of amusement source of annoyance source of danger source of emission source of energy source of friction source of illumination source of income source of information source of inspiration source of irritation source of joy source of plague source of pleasure source of supply source package source program source route source routing source set source string source table source to image distance source variable super source quench take it's source from tax deducted at source ultraviolet source use the Source Luke xenotransplant source animal. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "source": source-adaptive, source-base, source-based, source-book, source-code, source-compatible, source-coupled, source-critical, source-discs, source-free, source-gate, source-language, source-level, source-like, source-machine, source-material, source-oriented, source-related, source-specific, source-study, source-tape, source-text, source-texts, source-work.

Ending with "source": bugs-to-source, common-source, data-source, dual-source, food-source, in-source, life-source, light-source, multiple-source, multi-source, open-source, point-source, power-source, quarry-source, re-source, second-source, single-source, sole-source, sound-source, trade-source, two-line-source, water-source.

Containing "source": contains-source-of, requires-source-of.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Source

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

source

2,091

source of energy

153

open source

1,108

vb source code

152

payless shoes source

1,084

source of calcium

142

the source magazine

1,067

alternative energy source

135

source one

527

work source

130

nat pix rule source

425

global source

126

java source code

410

c source code

110

source code

368

smart source

110

natural source

301

room source

110

recipe source

289

the part source

108

wholesale source

285

source of potassium

95

visual basic source code

229

c++ source code

90

funding source

198

adult baby source

90

paper source

189

java script source

87

planet source code

188

the source sports

85

source of protein

185

open source software

81

linen source

176

music source

80

bugbear code source

174

highlander source

79

industrial laser source

173

free source code

78

dream home source

170

primary source

76
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Source

Language Translations for "source"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

bron (fountain, spring). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

vendburim (origin), origjinë (ancestry, extraction, filiation, fountain-head, origin, origins, parentage, pedigree, provenance, provenience), krua (fountain-head), gurrë (fount, rill), burim (cradle, efflux, font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, mother, origin, parent, principle, provenance, provenience, radix, rill, root, spring, Springhead, wellhead, wellspring). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

يَنْبوع (spring, well), ‏منشأ (birth, birthplace, ensuing, fountainhead, hometown, origin, provenance, rise), ‏منبع (head), ‏مصدر (beginning, fount, fountain, infinitive, mother, origin, principle, provenance, provenience, root, springhead), ‏سبب (account, beget, breed, bring about, cause, give rise to, ground, inspire, motif, motive, occasion, procure, purpose, ratio, reason, rise, score, wherefore, why), ‏أصل (ancestry, beginning, birth, derivation, descent, extraction, genealogy, genesis, germ, ingrain, origin, parent, parentage, paternity, pedigree, principle, provenance, provenience, race, rise, root, seed, stock, strain, taproot), ‏باب (affair, chapter, door, entry, field, gate, hatch, issue, kind, matter, port, rubric, section, sort, subject). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

начало (abc, basis, beginning, dawn, debut, forepart, genesis, inception, incipience, infancy, initiation, kick off, lead off, offset, onset, opening, origin, origination, outset, prime, principle, proem, rise, rudiment, set out, start), източник (derivation, font, fountain-head, hand, mint, origin, parent, paternity, quarry, quarter, quarters, reservoir, spring, thesaurus, well), извор (font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, head, headspring, lymph, origin, rise, seepage, spring, well, wellhead, wellspring). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(cause, clay sheep buried with the dead, former, level, original, primary, raw), 本源 (origin), (basis, foundation, origin, root, roots or stems of plants, the current, this), 源點 , 源泉 (fountainhead; source or origin), (origin, root), 情報處 , 来源, 來源 (origin). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zdroj (fountain-head, mine, origin, parent, repository), pramen (fountain, head, headspring, spring, strand, streak, well, wellspring), příèina (cause, occasion, reason, resort, why), pùvod (ancestry, antecedent, derivation, descent, extraction, nascency, origin, origination, origins, parent, parentage, provenance, root, stock). (various references)

   

Danish

  

kilde (fountain, spring). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bron (fountain, spring), welput (fountain, spring), wel (admittedly, all right, although, certainly, fountain, indeed, now, probably, quite, rather, rather allright, spring, surely, though, untranslated, well, well then, well-being), kwel (fountain, spring). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

fonto (fountain, spring). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

kelda (fountain, spring). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

منشاء (Fountain, Germ, Parent, Paternity, Provenance), منبع (Cistern, Fountain, Mine, Original, Resource), مایه مبداء , ماخذ (Alloy, Basis, Datum), چشمه (Fountain, Mesh, Spring, Springhead, Well), سرچشمه (Derivation, Fountain, Mother, Original, Principle, Root, Spring, Springhead). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

lähde (fountain, spring). (various references)

   

French

  

source (emission source, emitting source, source constituant, source of emission, source species, source substance), origine. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

welle (fountain, spring). (various references)

   

German

  

Quelle (fount, fountain, headwaters, origin, sources, sourse, spring, well, wellspring), Ursprung (beginning, birth, extraction, fountain, genesis, head, lineage, origin, provenance, sourse). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πηγή (derivation, fount, fountain, origin, origination, parent, rise, spring, well). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מוצא דבר (origin), מקור (fount, fountain, germ, nib, origin, parent, resource, resources, root, seed, well, wellspring), מעין (almost, as if, fountain, kind of, like, sort of, spring, well), שורש (basis, origin, root), ראשית (beginning, commencement, first, first of all, genesis, inception, outset, start). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

információ forrás, forrás (boil, boiling, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, fermentation, font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, headspring, parent, resource, seethe, spring, spring-head, well), eredet (ancestry, antecedents, derivation, genesis, germ, lineage, origin, parent, procession, provenance, provenience, root, rooting, spring, stock). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

brunnur (fountain, spring). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

sumber, sendang (spring), asal (breed, derivation, geminal, origin, provinience, spring), akar-akarnya (origin), akar (root). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sorgente (fount, fountain, fountainhead, rising, spring, wellspring), fonte (font, fount, fountain, pool, quarry, reservoir, spring, well), origine (accruement, beginning, birth, cause, development, extraction, formation, fountain, genesis, lineage, origin, origination, parentage, provenance, race, rise). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(origin). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たね (cause, copy, inside story, issue, kind, material, matter, offspring, paternal blood, pip, quality, secret, seed, subject, theme, tone, trick, variety), おこり (beginning, cause, genesis, origin), しゅっしょ (authority, birthplace, origin), しゅってん (authority, display, exhibit), ねもと (base, foundation, origin, principle, root), こんぽん (base, foundation, origin, principle, root), こんげん (base, foundation, origin, principle, root), ソース , らんしょう (beginning), ゆらい (derivation, destiny, history, origin, reason), げんしょ (extreme heat, first, origin, original document), げんせん (careful selection, catgut, nuclear submarine), げんいん (cause, origin, present members, reduction of staff), みなかみ (headwaters), みなもと (origin). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

근원. (various references)

   

Malay

  

mata-air (fountain, spring). (various references)

   

Manx

  

bun (base, basis, bottom, derivation, details, dope, end, explanation, eye of storm, foot, foundation, heart, interpretation, news, origin, original, prime, principle, raw material, root, root cause, sole, stem, stool, stump, underneath). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

kilde (fountain, spring). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

fuente (fountain, spring). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ourcesay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

fonte (authorship, draw-well, font, fount, fountain, fresh, hand, head, headspring, mint, mother, origination, radix, root, spring, supply, temple, well, wellspring), nascente (draw-well, fount, fountain, headspring, incipient, nascent, orient, orientate, spring, springhead, well, wellspring), origem (authorship, birth, extraction, fount, fountain, genesis, germ, hand, headquarters, home, incipience, lineage, mint, mother, origin, original, origination, parentage, paternity, principle, radix, root, start, wellspring), manancial (draw-well, fount, fountain, mint, spring, well, wellspring). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

sursã (beginning, capital, derivation, efflux, fountain, hand, mother, parent, quarry, rise, root, spring, well, wellhead), sorginte (origin), proveni (accrue, arise, come, emanate), origine (ancestry, beginning, birth, blood, cause, commencement, derivation, descent, emanation, etymology, extraction, fountain-head, genesis, growth, origin, origination, parent, parentage, provenance, rise, root, root stock, spring, strain), obârşie (beginning, descent, fountain, mother, origin, parentage, spring), matcã (bed, bottom, channel, layer, mother bee, queen), izvor (beginning, bourn, Bourne, efflux, font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, head, headspring, mine, mother, origin, origination, parent, quarry, rise, spring, well, wellhead), focar (center, centre, firebox, fireplace, focus, hotbed, seed plot, stokehold), fântânã (font, fountain, well), început (beginning, commencement, dawn, dayspring, entrance, first, germ, go off, head, head line, inchoation, lead off, morning, opening, outset, setting in, spring, start, starter, starting). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

родник (spring), исходный текст, источник исходный, источник (derivation, font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, grassroots, headspring, mine, mint, origin, parent, progenitor, provenance, radix, sources, spring, springhead, well, wellhead, well-head, wellspring), исток (headwaters). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

toiseach (beginning, origin, the beginning), tobar (a well, fountain, origin, well), tàrmachadh (dwelling, gathering, origin, producing). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

izvor (derivation, fount, rise, spring, springhead, well, wellhead, wellspring). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fuente (basin, bowl, chalybeate, deodorant, dish, font, fount, fountain, headpiece, pelvis, platter, pool, quarter, spring, Springhead, well, wellspring), origen (beginning, birth, bottom, commencement, derivation, derivative, descent, extraction, lineage, origin, origination, provenance, provenience, root, start), manantial (fount, fountain, origin, spring, well, wellspring). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

källa (authority, font, fount, fountain, fountainhead, mine, origin, spring, well), ursprung (beginning, derivation, extraction, fountainhead, genesis, lineage, nascency, origin, provenance, provenience, root, vintage), upprinnelse (origin). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yararlanılan kaynak (reference, source material), menşe (origin, provenance), memba (font, fount, fountain, mine, roots, spring, wellspring), kaynakça (bibliography), kaynak (authorship, basis, beginning, birth, bottom, chapter and verse, context, font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, fund, genesis, grass roots, headspring, inquiries, origin, parent, paternity, principle, provenance, quarter, reserve, resource, rise, root, root stock, roots, seeds, source material, source of supply, spore, spring, weld, welding, well, wellhead, wellspring, womb). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

pruЈin (r) (spring), gцzbaю (spring), зeюme (key, spring). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

верхів'я, основа (backbone, base, basement, bases, basis, bottom, carcass, chain, foot, groundwork, pedestal, pediment, principle, root, substratum, substructure, underlay), походження (ancestry, beginning, birth, blood, caste, derivation, genesis, kin, lineage, origin, original, origination, parentage, pedigree, provenance, strain), документ (act, chart, document, paper, writing), джерело (authorship, beginning, channel, cradle, derivation, fount, fountain-head, headspring, lymph, origin, parent, paternity, principle, progenitor, quarry, radix, spring, well, wellspring, whence). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nguồn sông, nguồn gốc nhàn cư vi bất tiện, nguồi suối nguồn. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

tarddle, tarddiad (derivation), ffynnon (fountain, spring, well), ffynhonnell (fount), echen (family, tribe). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

sayab ha' (fountain, spring), sayab (fountain, spring). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Source

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

alta, alti, altis, alto, altum, capita, capitaque, capite, capiti, capitibus, capitis, capitium, capitum, caput, deliciis, fons, fonte, fontem, fontes, fonti, fontibus, fontis, fontium, gaudii, gaudio, gaudium, gaudiumque, mater, matre, matrem, matres, matri, matribus, matrique, matris, matrum, originali, origine, originem, origo, origo, originis, orti, ortu, ortum, ortus, ortusque, profectio, radix, surgere, undique. (various references)

Avestan200-600

cithra, napâtem, xå. (various references)

Old French900-1400

sourse. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Source

Derivations

Words beginning with "source": sourcebook, sourcebooks, sourced, sourceless, sources. (additional references)

Words ending with "source": multisource, resource. (additional references)

Words containing "source": resourceful, resourcefully, resourcefulness, resourcefulnesses, resources. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Source" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cource, Cukurca, Saruca, Shourie, slouce, sorce, sorude, sorue, soufce, sourc, sourcer, sourey, sourge, sourie, sourse, surc. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Source"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "source" (pronounced sô"rs)
3-ô" r sbourse, coarse, corse, course, divorce, endorse, enforce, force, hoarse, horse, midcourse, Morse, perforce, reinforce, remorse.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Source

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cerous, course, crouse.

Words within the letters "c-e-o-r-s-u"

-1 letter: ceros, cores, corse, cruse, cures, curse, ecrus, euros, roues, rouse, score, scour, sucre.

-2 letters: cero, core, cors, crus, cues, cure, curs, ecru, ecus, eros, euro, orcs, ores, ours, recs, rocs, roes, rose, roue, rues, ruse, sore, sour, suer, sure, user.

-3 letters: cor, cos, cue, cur, ecu, ers, oes, orc, ore, ors, ose, our.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-o-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: acerous, bescour, carouse, chouser, closure, colures, coursed, courser, courses, couters, croupes, focuser, obscure, recoups, refocus, rouches, scoured, scourer, scourge, scouter, scrouge, sourced, sources, sucrose.

 

+2 letters: araceous, bescours, bouncers, caroused, carousel, carouser, carouses, cernuous, choregus, chorused, choruses, chousers, citreous, closured, closures, clotures, clouters, cocksure, coenures, coenurus, coinsure, conjures, conquers, construe, consumer, corneous, cornuses, corpuses, corulers, costumer, couchers, coughers, coulters, counters, couplers, courages, couriers, coursers, courters, courtesy, coutures, coverups, crocuses, croquets, crouches, crousely, crunodes, crustose, cupreous, customer, cutovers, cynosure, decorous, decorums, douceurs, eductors, focusers, frounces, fructose, grouches, mucrones, nacreous, obscured, obscurer, obscures, ocherous, ochreous, outcries, outcurse, outraces, outscore, overcuts, pouncers, precious, prefocus, procures, produces, racemous, recounts, recourse, reoccurs, resource, roebucks, sclerous, scourers, scourged, scourger, scourges, scouters, scouther, scrouged, scrouges, scrounge, sloucher, stuccoer, succored, succorer, sucroses, supercop, touchers, trounces, ulcerous, uncovers, vouchers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Historic
12. Quotations: Fiction
13. Quotations: Non-fiction
14. Quotations: Spoken
15. Quotations: Speeches
16. Usage Frequency
17. Names: Company Usage
18. Expressions
19. Expressions: Internet
20. Translations: Modern
21. Translations: Ancient
22. Abbreviations
23. Acronyms
24. Derivations
25. Rhymes
26. Anagrams
27. Bibliography


  

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