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来源;引起…的东西,提供消息的人,源头

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Source \Source\, n. [OE. sours, OF. sourse, surse, sorse, F.
   source, fr. OF. sors, p. p. of OF. sordre, surdre, sourdre,
   to spring forth or up, F. sourdre, fr. L. surgere to lift or
   raise up, to spring up. See {Surge}, and cf. {Souse} to
   plunge or swoop as a bird upon its prey.]
   1. The act of rising; a rise; an ascent. [Obs.]

            Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours Up springeth
            into the air, right so prayers . . . Maken their
            sours to Goddes ears two.             --Chaucer.

   2. The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of
      water or the like; a spring; a fountain.

            Where as the Poo out of a welle small Taketh his
            firste springing and his sours.       --Chaucer.

            Kings that rule Behind the hidden sources of the
            Nile.                                 --Addison.

   3. That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its
      cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates;
      first cause.

            This source of ideas every man has wholly in
            himself.                              --Locke.

            The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense.
                                                  --Pope.

   Syn: See {Origin}.

资料来源 : WordNet®

source
     n 1: 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" [syn: {beginning}, {origin}, {root}, {rootage}]
     2: a person who supplies information [syn: {informant}]
     3: 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" [syn: {reference}]
     4: a document (or organization) from which information is
        obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story"
     5: a facility where something is available
     6: anything that provides inspiration for later work [syn: {seed},
         {germ}]
     7: someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he
        was the generator of several complaints" [syn: {generator},
         {author}]
     8: (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters
        a system; "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide"
        [ant: {sink}]
     9: 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"
        [syn: {reservoir}]

source
     v 1: get (a product) from another country or business; "She
          sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from
          smaller companies"
     2: specify the origin of; "The writer carefully sourced her
        report"

资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

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