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source meaning

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  • Source may refer to:
  • NounPLsources
    1. The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
      1. The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling. ‎
    2. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
      1. The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers. ‎
    3. A reporter's informant.
      1. (computing) Source code.
        1. (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
        2. VerbSGsourcesPRsourcingPT, PPsourced
          1. (chiefly US) To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
            1. VT To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.
            2. More Examples
              1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
                • It is good source of fucoidan, alginates, ascophyllan, laminarins and polyphenols [ 4 ].
                • She thus gave herself a kind of superpresence, allowing us to see that the source of all the explosive energy we had witnessed onstage was her diminutive frame.
                • Transient luminous events can be another source of ionization in the upper atmosphere.
              2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
                • The email program allows you to whitelist email from known sources.
                • This software option is used to descreen digital images produced from half-toned printed sources.
                • The classification of such web databases according to their application domain is an important step towards the integration of deep web sources.

            Meaning of source for the defined word.

            Grammatically, this word "source" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.
            • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
              1. Nouns
                • Countable nouns
                • Verbs
                  • Transitive verbs
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                Definiteness: Level 9
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