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}]
2: a document (or organization) from which information is
obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story"
3: anything that provides inspiration for later work [syn: {seed},
{germ}]
4: a facility where something is available [syn: {channel}]
5: a person who supplies information [syn: {informant}]
6: someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he
was the generator of several complaints" [syn: {generator},
{author}]
7: 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}]