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- /sɔːs/ UK
- /sɔɹs/ US
- /so(ː)ɹs/
- /soəs/
- /suːɹs/ obsolete
- /sʊɹs/ obsolete
Sounds like sauce (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)s
Where it comes from
From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgō (“to rise”), which is composed of sub- (“up from below”) + regō (“lead, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-. Doublet of surge.
noun sources
- The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired. The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling.
- Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates. The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.
- A reporter's informant.
- Source code.
- The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
- The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from. Coordinate term: target
Similar: wellspring, parentage
verb sources · sourcing · sourced
- To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource. But the point when it would have to look at alternative new-build vehicles was always looming large, and there would inevitably be a finite number of Class 66s it could source from elsewhere, and a limit to other locomotives it could re-power.
- To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.
