Main entry: source
Definition: a facility where something is available
Main entry: germ, source, seed
Definition: anything that provides inspiration for later work
Main entry: source
Definition: a document (or organization) from which information is obtained
Usage: the reporter had two sources for the story
Definition: a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to
Usage: he carried an armful of references back to his desk; he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation
Main entry: root, rootage, source, beginning, origin
Definition: the place where something begins, where it springs into being
Usage: 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
Definition: anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies
Usage: an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival
Main entry: generator, source, author
Definition: someone who originates or causes or initiates something
Usage: he was the generator of several complaints
Definition: a person who supplies information
Main entry: source
Definition: (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system
Usage: a heat source; a source of carbon dioxide
Main entry: source
Definition: specify the origin of
Usage: The writer carefully sourced her report
Main entry: source
Definition: get (a product) from another country or business
Usage: She sourced a supply of carpet; They are sourcing from smaller companies