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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 |