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1. The place where something begins, where it springs into being
   "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River";
   - beginning, origin, root, rootage
    
2. A document (or organization) from which information is obtained
   "the reporter had two sources for the story"
    
3. Anything that provides inspiration for later work
   - seed, germ
    
4. A facility where something is available
    
5. A person who supplies information
   - informant
    
6. Someone who originates, causes or initiates something
   "he was the source of several complaints";
   - generator, author
    
7. (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system
   "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide"
    
8. Anything (a person, animal, plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies
   "an infectious agent depends on a source for its survival";
   - reservoir
    
9. A publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to
   "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation";
   - reference

1. Get (a product) from another country or business
   "She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies"
    
2. Specify the origin of
   "The writer carefully sourced her report"

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Derived forms: sources, sourced, sourcing

Type of: action, activity, communicator, document, facility, inspiration, installation, maker, natural action, natural process, obtain, papers, point, publication, shaper, thing, written document

Antonym: sink

Encyclopedia: Source