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Regno Unito//sɔːs//
Stati Uniti//sɔɹs//
//so(ː)ɹs//
//soəs//

The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

sostantivo

1
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.
To this day I do not know the source of the terrible screams that night in the labyrinth. Perhaps an owl. Perhaps something else...
More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
2
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.
Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
3
A reporter's informant.
4
Source code.
5
The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
6
A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
7
The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.
Coordinate term: target

Etimologia

From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgō (“to rise”), which is composed of sub- (“up from below”) + regō (“lead, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-. Doublet of surge.

verbo

1
To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
But the point when it would have to look at alternative new-build vehicles was always looming large, and there would inevitably be a finite number of Class 66s it could source from elsewhere, and a limit to other locomotives it could re-power.
2
To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.

Forme

plurale: sources
passato: sourced
participio passato: sourced
participio presente: sourcing
3ª persona singolare: sources

soundtrack · A narrow strip running down a movie film that carries the…soup · Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids,…sour · Tasting of acidity.

source · The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

south · The direction towards the pole to the right-hand side of…South · Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal…southeast · The intercardinal compass point halfway between east and…

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