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UK
/sˈɔːs/
]
[ US /ˈsɔɹs/ ]
[ US /ˈsɔɹs/ ]
NOUN
- a facility where something is available
- a person who supplies information
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(technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system
a source of carbon dioxide
a heat source -
the place where something begins, where it springs into being
communism's Russian root
Jupiter was the origin of the radiation
the Italian beginning of the Renaissance
Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River -
a document (or organization) from which information is obtained
the reporter had two sources for the story -
someone who originates or causes or initiates something
he was the generator of several complaints -
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 -
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 - anything that provides inspiration for later work
VERB
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get (a product) from another country or business
They are sourcing from smaller companies
She sourced a supply of carpet -
specify the origin of
The writer carefully sourced her report
How To Use source In A Sentence
- The unit can connect to any video source that has composite video and stereo audio RCA jacks, though the encoded audio is limited to mono.
- Note that you'll be able to find the demonstration projects themselves as open-source projects on the companion site to the column (see Resources).
- Well, the good news is a few weeks ago they were talking about it being the main source of law, so there has been some concession there, which the Iraqi women leaders have been fighting for.
- Acronyms or abbreviations can confuse a client who is looking for the business in a resource listing.
- The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- Venuti advocates that translators create a discursive heterogeneity by using non-dominant English forms to make the foreignness of the source texts felt and render the translations visible.
- Four principal types of source pertain to the subject: literature, works of graphic or plastic art, archaeological remains, and notated pieces of music.
- This triangulation of information will help school practitioners make better decisions about students or programs because data from one source can help confirm or disconfirm information from another.
- Along with petroleum, the most important new source of energy was electricity.
- Competition between siblings for resources is widespread in the broods of altricial birds.