Word Finder - source

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The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

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The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling.

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Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.

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The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.

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A reporter's informant.

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Source code.

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The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

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To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.

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To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.

So far, she seemed to be his best source of information, anyway.

Only I must know the source of your power first.

Opening her eyes, she hesitated and moved away from the car in the direction of the source of the memories.

We moved our magic source into this world in anticipation of your actions.

As she watched her life source drizzle into the bladder, she felt a familiar sense of loss.

Alex was the biggest source of her contentment.

Now, if you acquire an ox, a new source of energy, you can plow more.

The source of my magic is from the forbidden, the depraved.

Of course, he couldn't know the true source of her tears...

This with the extracts from her letters, scattered through the report, is the first valid source of information about Helen Keller.

Unable to discern the source of his objection, she finally turned an inquisitive gaze on him.

It's one source only.

You can be filled with water from any source.

It rose from the beach to the sky and harbored the source of the immortals' power in the immortal world.

Even our spy does not know the source of magic that makes the Springs flow pure with life.

Trickling water circled the oasis, its source a small spring in the center.

It had no physical source, but it hurt her physically nonetheless.

There was already food on her plate --meat from an unnamed source, vegetables, bread.

His gaze searched for the source of blood, finding it instantly.

Darkyn had gone through the process to blood bind Deidre; he wasn't going to let his only source of food go.

Every deity has a different nature and source for their magic.

The open source movement and Creative Commons licensing are examples of people willing to share their intellectual labor to help others.

A yellowish glow emitted from some unseen light source in the grey walls reminded her of a late winter afternoon that never ended.

He adlibbed a ridiculous story of wanting do a magazine piece on Shipton and began to flatter the listener, saying he was recommended as a prime source of accurate information.

She didn't want to look, sensing she'd met a source of their issues already.

It was hard to believe he didn't understand the source of her distress, and yet he acted as though he was baffled.

I'm not some source you're obligated to sleep with.

An easy food source following you around for the rest of all time?

In his time as White God, the obelisk had been the source and seat of power for the White Gods in the immortal world.

An occasional sharp high bark soon revealed the source as a little gray squirrel.

The outlines of several medieval maps resemble each other to such an extent that there can be no doubt that they are derived from the same original source.

To a new generation they seemed paltry, earthly and fantastic, and far-seeing men had good reason to regard them as a source of political danger.

It is not improbable that all dogs sprang from one common source, but climate, food and cross-breeding caused variations of form which suggested particular uses, and these being either designedly or accidentally perpetuated, the various breeds of dogs arose, and became numerous in proportion to the progress of civilization.

It was in connexion with these latter inquiries that he devised his phosphoroscope, an apparatus which enabled the interval between exposure to the source of light and observation of the resulting effects to be varied at will and accurately measured.

The descents of pirates on the coasts were a perpetual source of danger; the pirate was a gainer either by the sale or by the redemption of his captives.

Of the number furnished from this source a few particulars from the time of the mature republic and the first century of the empire will give some idea.

Though the Roman slaves were not, like the Spartan Helots, kept obedient by systematic terrorism, their large numbers were a constant source of danger.

Augustus set himself against the undue multiplication of manumissions, probably considering the rapid succession of new citizens a source of social instability, and recommended a similar policy to his successor.

The Avesta is, indeed, our principal source for the doctrine of Zoroaster; on the subject of his person and his life it is comparatively reticent; with regard to his date it is, naturally enough, absolutely silent.

On the east coast the rocks form a headland (592 ft.) called the Noup of Noss ("the peak of the nose"), once the source from which falcons were obtained for the royal mews.

And, though it exhibits the Deity in less splendour than its Sephiric parents exhibit the En Soph, because it is farther removed from the primordial source of light than the Sephiroth, still, as it is God manifested, all the multifarious forms in the world point out the unity which they represent.

Its ten Sephiroth, being still farther removed from the Primordial Source, are of a less refined substance.

The soul's destiny upon earth is to develop those perfections the germs of which are eternally implanted in it, and it ultimately must return to the infinite source from which it emanated.

Lotteries which were an important source of revenue under Spain were abolished under the Republic. The debt resting on the colony in 1895 (a large part of it as a result of the war of 1868-1878, the entire cost of which was laid upon the island, but a part as the result of Spain's war adventures in Mexico and San Domingo, home loans, &c.) was officially stated at $168,500,000.

It is formed by the junction of three streams, all having their source in the mountain range N.E.

Small steamers ply on the Drina, Save and Una, but the Bosna, though broad from its very source, is, like the Vrbas, too full of shallows to be utilized; while the Narenta only begins to be navigable when it enters Dalmatia.

The legend, which has never been traced to its ultimate source, had many variants, especially as regards the situation attributed to Manoa.

The estimated revenue from this source is £T1, 289,612.

Ertoghrul first camped at Jessin, east of Erzerum; a second appeal to Ala-ud-din was more successful - the numbers of the immigrants had become too insignificant for their presence to be a source of danger.

Servia had long resented the occupation of her fortresses by Turkish troops; frequent collisions arising from this source resulted in June 1862 in the bombardment of Belgrade; some slight concessions were then made to Servia, but it was not until 1867 that, through the mediation of England and other powers, she succeeded in obtaining the withdrawal of the Turkish garrisons.