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.
A relationship or relation (to something).
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 measurement one can compare (some other measurement) to.
A reporter's informant.
Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.
(computing) Source code.
A person who provides this information; onlyn in UK English: a referee.
(electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
A reference work.
To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
(attributive) That which serves as a reference work.
Reference Dictionary of Linguistics
(transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source from which it comes: to find a citation for.
The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.
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
(semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.
a person who supplies information
(academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.
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
(academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
a document (or organization) from which information is obtained;
the reporter had two sources for the story
(computing) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.
a facility where something is available
A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as ™ for the ™ symbol.
anything that provides inspiration for later work
(obsolete) Appeal.
someone who originates or causes or initiates something;
he was the generator of several complaints
To provide a list of references for (a text).
You must thoroughly reference your paper before submitting it.
(technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system;
a heat source
a source of carbon dioxide
To refer to, to use as a reference.
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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
To mention, to cite.
In his speech, the candidate obliquely referenced the past failures of his opponent.
get (a product) from another country or business;
She sourced a supply of carpet
They are sourcing from smaller companies
(programming) To contain the value that is a memory address of some value stored in memory.
The given pointer will reference the actual generated data.
specify the origin of;
The writer carefully sourced her report
a remark that calls attention to something or someone;
she made frequent mention of her promotion
there was no mention of it
the speaker made several references to his wife
a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage;
the student's essay failed to list several important citations
the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book
the article includes mention of similar clinical cases
an indicator that orients you generally;
it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved
a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts;
he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic
a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability;
requests for character references are all to often answered evasively
the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to;
the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos
the act of referring or consulting;
reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer
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
the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to;
he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes
refer to;
he referenced his colleagues' work
