source (noun)
21source — mid 14c., from O.Fr. sourse a rising, beginning, fountainhead of a river or stream, fem. noun taken from pp. of sourdre to rise, spring up, from L. surgere to rise (see SURGE (Cf. surge)). Meaning written work (later also a person) supplying… …
22source materials — noun publications from which information is obtained • Hypernyms: ↑source …
23source|book — «SRS BUK, SOHRS », noun. a book of fundamental documents, records, testimony, or evidence, which serve as firsthand or primary sources of information for the study of a subject …
24source code — noun Date: 1970 a computer program in its original programming language (as FORTRAN or C) before translation into object code usually by a compiler …
25source language — noun Date: 1953 a language which is to be translated into another language compare target language …
26source domain — noun Within a conceptual metaphor, the conceptual domain from which we draw metaphorical expressions …
27source routing — noun (in a packet switching network) A technique whereby the sender of a packet can specify the route that a packet should take through the network …
28source code — noun Computing a text listing of commands to be compiled into an executable computer program …
29source criticism — noun the analysis and study of sources used by biblical authors …
30source code — noun (U) technical a computer program 1 that can be read by someone who knows the language it is written in compare machine code …