Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Noun
S: (n) beginning, origin, root, rootage, source (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"
S: (n) source (a document (or organization) from which information is obtained) "the reporter had two sources for the story"
S: (n) source, seed, germ (anything that provides inspiration for later work)
S: (n) source (a facility where something is available)
W: (v) generate [Related to: generator] (bring into existence) "The new manager generated a lot of problems"; "The computer bug generated chaos in the office"; "The computer generated this image"; "The earthquake generated a tsunami"
W: (adj) auctorial [Related to: author] (of or by or typical of an author) "authorial comments"; "auctorial flights of imagination"
W: (n) authorship [Related to: author] (the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing) "the authorship of the theory is disputed"
S: (n) source ((technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system) "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide"
S: (n) reservoir, source (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"
S: (n) reference, source (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"
Verb
S: (v) source (get (a product) from another country or business) "She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies"