• a facility where something is available
• anything that provides inspiration for later work
• a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two Sources for the story"
• 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"
• 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"
• 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"
• someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints"
• a person who supplies information
• (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system; "a heat Source"; "a Source of carbon dioxide"
• specify the origin of; "The writer carefully Sourced her report"
• get (a product) from another country or business; "She Sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies"

'Source' in other languages