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(noun) a facility where something is available |
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Synonyms: channel |
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Related Words: facility, installation |
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(noun) anything that provides inspiration for later work |
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Synonyms: germ, seed |
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Related Words: inspiration, muse |
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(noun) a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story" |
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Related Words: document, fountainhead, papers, source materials, well, wellspring, written document |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: reference |
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Related Words: publication |
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(noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints" |
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Synonyms: author, generator |
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Related Words: maker, shaper |
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(noun) a person who supplies information |
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Synonyms: informant |
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Related Words: betrayer, communicator, informer, rat, squealer |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: beginning, origin, root |
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Related Words: birthplace, cradle, derivation, fountainhead, head, headspring, headwaters, home, jumping-off place, jumping-off point, place of origin, point, point source, provenance, spring, wellhead, wellspring |
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