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Results for: "source"

Translating from English to German

Translations:

source — origin, where something comes from
→ Quelle f
→ Ursprung m
source — spring etc
→ Quelle f
source — informant, person providing information
→ Quelle f

More translations:

source
→ herstammen
source
→ die Herkunft offenbaren
source
→ von einem bestimmten Lieferant erhalten
source
→ Quelle
source
→ Originalcode (Comput)
source
→ Abstammung
source
→ Anbeginn
source
→ Anbruch
source
→ Anfang
source
→ Auskunftsperson
source
→ Beginn
source
→ Born
source
→ Denunziant
source
→ Flusszulauf
source
→ Flußzulauf
source
→ Geburt
source
→ Herkunft
source
→ Informant
source
→ Quell
source
→ Saat
source
→ Urquelle
source
→ Ursprung
source
→ Wurzel

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


NOUN (9)

1. the place where something begins, where it springs into being;
- Example: "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"
- Example: "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"
- Example: "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"
- Example: "communism's Russian root"
[syn: beginning, origin, root, rootage, source]

2. a document (or organization) from which information is obtained;
- Example: "the reporter had two sources for the story"

3. anything that provides inspiration for later work;
[syn: source, seed, germ]

4. a facility where something is available;

5. a person who supplies information;
[syn: informant, source]

6. someone who originates or causes or initiates something;
- Example: "he was the generator of several complaints"
[syn: generator, source, author]

7. (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system;
- Example: "a heat source"
- Example: "a source of carbon dioxide"

8. anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies;
- Example: "an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival"
[syn: reservoir, source]

9. a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to;
- Example: "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"
- Example: "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation"
[syn: reference, source]


VERB (2)

1. get (a product) from another country or business;
- Example: "She sourced a supply of carpet"
- Example: "They are sourcing from smaller companies"

2. specify the origin of;
- Example: "The writer carefully sourced her report"