Synonyms of the word

source

• n. The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
• n. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which…
• n. A reporter's informant.
• n. (computing) Source code.
• n. (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
• v. (chiefly US) To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
• v. (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation…

action

• n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
• n. A way of motion or functioning.
• n. A fast-paced activity.
• n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
• n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
• n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
• n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
• n. (military) Combat.
• n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
• n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
• n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
• n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
• n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
• n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
• interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
• v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
• v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

activity

• n. The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active…
• n. Something done as an action or a movement.
• n. Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
• n. Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).

author

• n. The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
• n. Someone who writes books for a living.
• n. The works of an author or authors.
• v. (chiefly US) To create a work as its author.

beginning

• n. (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space…
• n. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
• n. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
• n. The initial portion of some extended thing.
• v. present participle of begin.
• adj. (informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.

communicator

• n. Someone who, or something that communicates.
• n. Any of several electronic devices that allow people with various disabilities to communicate via displays…

document

• n. An original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including…
• n. (obsolete) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
• n. (obsolete) An example for instruction or warning.
• v. To record in documents.
• v. To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.

facility

• n. The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.
• n. Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
• n. The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required…
• n. An institution specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific…
• n. (Canada, US, in the plural) A toilet.

generator

• n. One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
• n. A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.

germ

• n. (biology) The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore.
• n. A pathogenic microorganism.
• n. The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal…
• n. (figuratively) The origin of an idea or project.
• n. (mathematics) An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.
• v. To germinate.
• v. (slang) To grow, as if parasitic.

informant

• n. One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
• n. (linguistics) A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant…

inspiration

• n. (physiology, uncountable) The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the…
• n. (countable) A breath, a single inhalation.
• n. A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified…
• n. The act of an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
• n. A person, object, or situation which quickens or stimulates an influence upon the intellect, emotions…
• n. A new idea, especially one which arises suddenly and is clever or creative.

installation

• n. An act of installing.
• n. Something installed, especially the whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories, when set…
• n. A work of installation art.
• n. A grouping of facilities that constitute a permanent military base.

maker

• n. Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.
• n. (usually capitalized and preceded by the) God.
• n. (now rare) A poet.
• n. (obsolete, law) Someone who signs a cheque or promissory note, thereby becoming responsible for payment.

obtain

• v. (transitive) To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To secure (that) a specific objective or state of affairs be reached.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To prevail, be victorious; to succeed.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold; to keep, possess or occupy.
• v. (intransitive) To exist or be the case; to hold true, be in force.

origin

• n. The beginning of something.
• n. The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
• n. (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
• n. (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of…
• n. (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
• n. (in the plural) Ancestry.

papers

• n. plural of paper.
• n. (plural only) Official documents or identification, as a passport.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of paper.

point

• n. A discrete division of something.
• n. A sharp extremity.
• n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
• n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
• n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
• n. Lace worked by the needle.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
• n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
• n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
• n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
• n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
• n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
• v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
• v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
• v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
• v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
• v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
• v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
• v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
• v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
• v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
• v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
• v. (obsolete) To appoint.
• v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

publication

• n. The act of publishing printed or other matter.
• n. An issue of printed or other matter, offered for sale or distribution.
• n. The communication of information to the general public etc.

reference

• n. (literary or archaic) A relationship or relation (to something).
• n. A measurement one can compare to.
• n. Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.
• n. A reference work.
• n. (semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to…
• n. (academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source…
• n. (academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
• n. (programming) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing…
• n. (programming, character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in a web page…
• n. (obsolete) Appeal.
• v. To refer to, to make reference to.
• v. To mention, to cite.

reservoir

• n. A place where anything is kept in store.
• n. A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
• n. A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
• n. A supply or source of something.
• n. A species that acts as host to a zoonosis when it is not causing acute illness in other susceptible species.

root

• n. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores…
• n. A root vegetable.
• n. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
• n. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
• n. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
• n. The primary source; origin.
• n. (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified…
• n. (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often…
• n. (analysis) A zero (of an equation).
• n. (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
• n. (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects…
• n. (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
• n. (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
• n. The lowest place, position, or part.
• n. (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and…
• n. (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
• n. (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
• v. (computing, slang, transitive) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.
• v. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
• v. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
• v. (transitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
• v. (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
• v. (intransitive) To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil.
• v. (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
• v. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse.
• v. (horticulture, intransitive) To grow roots.
• v. (horticulture, transitive) To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
• v. (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of…

seed

• n. (countable) A fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant.
• n. (countable, botany) A fertilized ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
• n. (uncountable) An amount of fertilized grain that cannot be readily counted.
• n. (uncountable) Semen.
• n. (countable) A precursor.
• n. (countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the…
• n. (now rare) Offspring, descendants, progeny.
• n. Race; generation; birth.
• v. (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
• v. To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
• v. (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
• v. (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
• v. (Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through BitTorrent.
• v. To be able to compete (especially in a quarter-final/semi-final/final).
• v. To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
• v. (dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of see.

shaper

• n. One who shapes.
• n. A machine tool in which a single-point cutting tool mounted on a reciprocating ram is traversed across…
• n. (surfing) A person who designs and builds surfboards.

thing

• n. That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
• n. A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
• n. An individual object or distinct entity.
• n. (informal) Something that is normal or generally recognised.
• n. (law).
• n. (somewhat dated) The latest fad or fashion.
• n. (in the plural) Clothes, possessions or equipment.
• n. (informal) A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.
• n. (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
• n. (slang) A penis.
• n. A living being or creature.
• n. That which matters; the crux.
• n. Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
• n. (informal) That which is favoured; personal preference. (Used in possessive constructions.).
• n. (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
• v. (rare) To express as a thing; to reify.