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Synonyms for source
sɔrs, soʊrssource
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
source
The Latin commencement is more formal than the Saxon beginning, as the verb commence, is more formal than begin. Commencement is for the most part restricted to some form of action, while beginning has no restriction, but may be applied to action, state, material, extent, enumeration, or to whatever else may be conceived of as having a first part, point, degree, etc. The letter A is at the beginning (not the commencement) of every alphabet. If we were to speak of the commencement of the Pacific Railroad, we should be understood to refer to the enterprise and its initiatory act; if we were to refer to the roadway we should say "Here is the beginning of the Pacific Railroad." In the great majority of cases begin and beginning are preferable to commence and commencement as the simple, idiomatic English words, always accurate and expressive. "In the beginning was the word," John i, 1. An origin is the point from which something starts or sets out, often involving, and always suggesting causal connection; as, the origin of evil; the origin of a nation, a government, or a family. A source is that which furnishes a first and continuous supply, that which flows forth freely or may be readily recurred to; as, the source of a river; a source of knowledge; a source of inspiration; fertile land is a source (not an origin) of wealth. A rise is thought of as in an action; we say that a lake is the source of a certain river, or that the river takes its rise from the lake. Motley wrote of "The Rise of the Dutch Republic." Fount, fountain, and spring, in their figurative senses, keep close to their literal meaning. Compare CAUSE.
See synonyms for END.
Synonyms:
arising, beginning, commencement, fount, fountain, inauguration, inception, initiation, opening, origin, outset, rise, spring, start
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
beginning, origin, root, rootage, sourcenoun
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"
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extraction, start, get-go, showtime, seed, parentage, ascendent, base, pedigree, offset, tooth root, reference, theme, ascendant, informant, root system, rootage, first, etymon, germ, radical, root, kickoff, descent, stemma, ancestor, inception, antecedent, stock, origination, author, lineage, reservoir, origin, line, outset, line of descent, stem, root word, starting time, bloodline, generator, solution, ancestry, beginning, commencement, blood, blood lineAntonyms:
sinksourcenoun
a document (or organization) from which information is obtained
"the reporter had two sources for the story"
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origin, beginning, reservoir, seed, informant, rootage, root, author, germ, generator, referenceAntonyms:
sinksource, seed, germnoun
anything that provides inspiration for later work
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generator, rootage, seeded player, seed, bug, reference, informant, germ, seminal fluid, beginning, semen, cum, root, microbe, come, ejaculate, author, origin, reservoirAntonyms:
sinksourcenoun
a facility where something is available
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origin, beginning, reservoir, seed, informant, rootage, root, author, germ, generator, referenceAntonyms:
sinkinformant, sourcenoun
a person who supplies information
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origin, beginning, generator, witness, informant, rootage, root, author, seed, reference, germ, witnesser, reservoirAntonyms:
sinkgenerator, source, authornoun
someone who originates or causes or initiates something
"he was the generator of several complaints"
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writer, origin, beginning, generator, informant, rootage, root, author, seed, reference, germ, reservoirAntonyms:
sinksourcenoun
(technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system
"a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide"
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origin, beginning, reservoir, seed, informant, rootage, root, author, germ, generator, referenceAntonyms:
sinkreservoir, sourcenoun
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"
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origin, beginning, generator, author, informant, rootage, root, artificial lake, seed, reference, germ, reservoir, man-made lakeAntonyms:
sinkreference, sourceverb
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"
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extension, rootage, denotation, character reference, acknowledgment, reference point, generator, reference book, author, seed, mention, reservoir, informant, germ, credit, beginning, consultation, origin, point of reference, reference work, computer address, reference, address, quotation, character, root, cite, book of facts, citationAntonyms:
sinksourceverb
get (a product) from another country or business
"She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies"
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sinksourceverb
specify the origin of
"The writer carefully sourced her report"
Antonyms:
sink
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
sourcenoun
Synonyms:
origin, spring, fountain, head, rise, cradle, beginning, commencement, fountain-head, starting pointsourcenoun
Nicknames
List of known nicknames for "Source":
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How to use source in a sentence?
Epidemiologic evidence and early product distribution information indicate that whole, fresh papayas imported from Mexico and sold in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island are a likely source of this outbreak.
Renewable energy sources are now the second largest source of electricity after natural gas.
Because of the way it [the methane] behaves, we believe it's a smaller, closer source [rather] than it is a bigger, further away source.
It turns what seems like a perfectly safe neighborhood into a source of anxiety and fear, this raises the question: Do you really need Ring, or have Amazon and the police misled you into thinking that you do?
Cortney Brand said. Denver Basin Water is exploring the feasibility of pumping water far under the city, into the massive Denver Basin aquifer system to keep it there until the next dry spell. As Denver Water Resource Engineer Bob Peters points out, in the already arid American West, Drought is always on the horizon. We only get 15 inches of rainfall a year here in Denver Basin, and most of Denver Water comes from the mountain snowpack. That mountain snowpack melts and runs downstream, supplying water for much of the nation including the parched Southwest. When the snowpack fails the effects reach far beyond the region according to Doug Kenney, Director of the Western Water Policy Center at University of Colorado Law School. The California drought has really illustrated to people why drought in the West is important. If you consume vegetables in winter, you're probably getting those from Southern California, so from farm products to general economic health, not only do these things resonate throughout the rest of the country but throughout the rest of the world. A secondary source of water comes from underground aquifers which nature filled over the course of millions of years, and which humans are draining at a massive rate. Even though the aquifer system under the city of Denver Basin covers an area the size of the Connecticut, Peters said, The Denver Basin ground water is non-renewable so if you pump that water it's gone. What we're talking about is taking our renewable water supplies and injecting them into the aquifer to keep the aquifer replenished. With core samples taken every 10 feet down, the bore holes being drilled beneath Denver Basin will provide geologic data about how well the various open bowls in the rock will hold water without losing any to seepage or cracks. Cities like Phoenix, Wichita and San Antonio are already banking water underground and because it doesn't have the same downsides as above-ground reservoirs the method will surely become more common. Reservoirs are really tough to build, politically and financially, Kenney said.
Translations for source
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- مصدر, كود مصدري, مَصْدَر, مصادرArabic
- qaynaqAzerbaijani
- zdrojCzech
- udspring, kildeDanish
- belegen, Ursprung, Quelle, Quellcode, beziehen, QuellkodeGerman
- πηγή, πηγαίος κώδικαςGreek
- fontoEsperanto
- fontana, fuente, código fuenteSpanish
- منبعPersian
- lähde, hankkiaFinnish
- source, code source, sourcesFrench
- boarneWestern Frisian
- foinseIrish
- stòrScottish Gaelic
- स्रोतHindi
- sousHaitian Creole
- forráskód, forrás, eredet, beszerezHungarian
- աղբյուր, ակունք, ակArmenian
- sumberIndonesian
- codice sorgente, fonte, sorgente, tirare fuoriItalian
- 本源, 泉, 源泉Japanese
- 출처Korean
- کانگه, سهرچاوه, kanîKurdish
- sourceLatin
- Quellen, QuellLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- šaltinisLithuanian
- avotsLatvian
- kopounga, hōkikitanga, mātāwai, tāuru, mātāpunaMāori
- sumberMalay
- bronDutch
- kildekodeNorwegian
- zdrój, źródło, kod źródłowyPolish
- fonte, nascente, cabeceira, código-fonte, exsurgência, origemPortuguese
- pukyuQuechua
- izvor, fântână, sursăRomanian
- источник, исходник, ключ, исходный код, истокRussian
- källa, fontän, ursprung, källkodSwedish
- மூலTamil
- แหล่งThai
- kaynak koduTurkish
- 源Chinese
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