source
/sɔɹs/ noun A2- 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.
- 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 reporter's informant.
- Source code.
- The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
- The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from. · Coordinate term: target
Plural sources
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“I will take the first share,” he said, “because I am King: and the second share, as a partner with you in the chase: and the third share (believe me) will be a source of great evil to you, unless you willingly resign it to me, and set off as fast as you can.”
Do you not know that labor is the source of every blessing, and that none but those who work are entitled to eat?”
Now, presuming that the source of the crime is as we suspect it to be, there might be two different motives.
who have found in that which I deemed a happy windfall the source of my destruction.”
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