ˈɔː.θə ˈɔ.θɚ d͡ʒɜːm d͡ʒɝm ɪnˈfɔːmənt ɪnˈfɔɹmənt ˈɒɹ.ɪ.dʒɪn ˈɔɹ.ɪ.dʒɪn ˈɹɛf.(ə)ɹəns ˈɹɛz.ə.vwɑː(ɹ) ˈɹɛz.ə(ɹ).vwɑɹ sɔɹs sɔːs sɔɹs sɔːs specify the origin of The writer carefully sourced her report get (a product) from another country or business She sourced a supply of carpet They are sourcing from smaller companies a facility where something is available anything that provides inspiration for later work a document (or organization) from which information is obtained the reporter had two sources for the story 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 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 anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival someone who originates or causes or initiates something he was the generator of several complaints a person who supplies information (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system a heat source a source of carbon dioxide