Definition of source

"source" in the noun sense

1. 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. source

a document (or organization) from which information is obtained

"the reporter had two sources for the story"

3. source, seed, germ

anything that provides inspiration for later work

4. source

a facility where something is available

5. informant, source

a person who supplies information

6. generator, source, author

someone who originates or causes or initiates something

"he was the generator of several complaints"

7. source

technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system

"a heat source"

"a source of carbon dioxide"

8. reservoir, source

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"

9. 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"

"source" in the verb sense

1. source

get (a product) from another country or business

"She sourced a supply of carpet"

"They are sourcing from smaller companies"

2. source

specify the origin of

"The writer carefully sourced her report"

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Quotations for source

He lives who lives to God alone,
And all are dead beside;
For other source than God is none
Whence life can be supplied. [ William Cowper ]

Things are always best at their source. [ Pascal ]

O, if so much beauty doth reveal
Itself in every vein of life and nature.
How beautiful must be the Source itself,
The Ever Bright One. [ Tegner ]

The stream is always purer at its source. [ Pascal ]

Contentment opes the source of every joy. [ Beattie ]

The source of all good and of all comfort. [ Burke ]

Religion crowns the statesman and the man,
Sole source of public and of private peace. [ Young ]

Guilt is the source of sorrow; 'tis the fiend,
The avenging fiend that follows us behind
With whips and stings. [ Rowe ]

Money, thou bane and bliss and source of woe,
Whence com'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine?
I know thy parentage is base and low:
Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine. [ Herbert ]

Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [ Horace ]

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties. [ Blair ]

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source of human offspring! [ Milton ]

Good sense is both the first principle and parent-source of good writing. [ Horace ]

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice. [ Hosea Ballou ]

The great source of a loose style is the injudicious use of synonymous terms. [ Blair ]

Without the ideal, the inexhaustible source of all progress, - what would man be? [ Mme. de Girardin ]

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

The attainment of our greatest desires is often the source of our greatest sorrows.

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction. [ Victor Hugo ]

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations. [ Berthold Auerbach ]

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power. [ Landor ]

Without the ideal, this inexhaustible source of all progress, what would man be? and what would society be? [ E. de Girardin ]

The source of all passions is sensitiveness: it is the errors of imagination that transform them into vices. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness. [ Hazlitt ]

The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation. [ Saint-Foix ]

Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with the interests of the workmen. [ Count De Montalembert ]

Music is a source of surpassing delight to many minds. From its power to soothe the feelings and modify the passions, it seems desirable to understand it. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure. [ Gibbon ]

He who does not respect confidence, will never find happiness in his path. The belief in virtue vanishes from his heart, the source of nobler actions becomes extinct in him. [ Auffenberg ]

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible. [ Colton ]

Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source than at its termination. [ Colton ]

O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves! [ Dickens ]

Music moves us, and we know not why; we feel the tears, and cannot trace the source. Is it the language of some other state, born of its memory? For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of another world, like music? [ Miss L. E. Landon ]

Negligence or Neglect? Negligence is a habit; neglect is an act. The following sentences illustrate the difference in the meaning of these words:
His negligence was the source of all his misfortunes,
By his neglect he lost the opportunity. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities, and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet. [ Burton ]

Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. [ Burke ]

How mighty is the human heart, with all its complicated energies; this living source of all that moves the world! this temple of liberty, this kingdom of heaven, this altar of God, this throne of goodness, so beautiful in holiness, so generous in love! [ Henry Giles ]

If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. [ Sir John Herschel ]

We have often thought it strange that moralists should have written and spoken of the mutability of human life as if it were a thing to be dreaded and mourned over; to our mind, mutability is the soul of poetry, and the source of nearly all the most delightful and sacred pleasures of life. [ Stubbs ]

A prolific source of obscurity is ambiguous arrangement. A member of the Savage Club, so runs the story, was one day standing on the steps of the club house. A messenger stopped and inquired: Does a gentleman belong to your club with one eye named Walker? I don't know, was the answer, what was the name of his other eye? [ Sir J. F. Stephen, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite. [ Victor Cousin ]

Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride! [ Henry Martyn ]

If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a state, we must ask what rank women hold in it; their influence embraces the whole of life; a wife! - a mother! - two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man's felicity; theirs is a reign of beauty, of love, of reason, - always a reign! a man takes counsel with his wife, he obeys his mother; he obeys her long after she has ceased to live; and the ideas which he has received from her become principles stronger even than his passions. [ Aime Martin ]

source in Scrabble®

The word source is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters source:

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source in Words With Friends™

The word source is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters source:

COURSE
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