Толковый словарь английского языка - source

I. noun see: surge Date: 14th century 1. a generative force ; cause, b. a point of origin or procurement ; beginning, one that initiates ; author, one that supplies information, 2. the point of origin of a stream of water ; fountainhead, spring, fount, a firsthand document or primary reference work, an electrode in a field-effect transistor that supplies the charge carriers for current flow, see: origin ~less adjective II. transitive verb (~d; sourcing) Date: 1957 to specify the ~ of (as quoted material), to obtain from a ~ , III. adjective Date: 1959 of, relating to, or being ~ code