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Grep of noun source light source material resource monetary resource natural resource pecuniary resource point source quasi-stellar radio source radio source renewable resource resource source source book source code source language source materials source of illumination source program ultraviolet source Overview of noun source The noun source has 7 senses (first 7 from tagged texts) 1. (355) beginning, origin, root, rootage, source -- (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") 2. (191) informant, source -- (a person who supplies information) 3. (147) reference, source -- (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") 4. (108) source -- (a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story") 5. (31) source -- (a facility where something is available) 6. (27) source, seed, germ -- (anything that provides inspiration for later work) 7. (4) generator, source, author -- (someone who originates or causes or initiates something "he was the generator of several complaints") Grep of adj source open-source Overview of noun source The noun source has 7 senses (first 7 from tagged texts) 1. (355) beginning, origin, root, rootage, source -- (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") 2. (191) informant, source -- (a person who supplies information) 3. (147) reference, source -- (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") 4. (108) source -- (a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story") 5. (31) source -- (a facility where something is available) 6. (27) source, seed, germ -- (anything that provides inspiration for later work) 7. (4) generator, source, author -- (someone who originates or causes or initiates something "he was the generator of several complaints")
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