SOURCE
\sˈɔːs], \sˈɔːs], \s_ˈɔː_s]\
Definitions of SOURCE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
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a facility where something is available
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a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story"
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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"
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(technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system; "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide"
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specify the origin of; "The writer carefully sourced her report"
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get (a product) from another country or business; "She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies"
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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"
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a facility where something is available
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a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story"
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The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
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The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
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That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.
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The spring or fountain from which a stream of water flows; first cause; original; the first producer.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The spring or fountain from which a stream of water flows; first cause; original; that which gives rise to anything.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [French, Latin] That person or place from which any thing proceeds;-especially, the spring or fountain from which a stream of water proceeds; any collection of water in which a stream originates; - first cause; original:-first producer; creator.
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.