Noun

(en noun)

The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)

, title=Internal Combustion, chapter=2 citation , passage=More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-06, volume=408, issue=8843, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The rise of smart beta , passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.}}

Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author= John Vidal

, volume=189, issue=10, page=8, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas , passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources . Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.}}

A reporter's informant.

(computing) Source code.

(electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

Noun

(en noun)

Money]] one earns by working or by [[capitalise, capitalising on the work of others.

*, chapter=23

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.}}

* 2010 Dec. 4, , " Why It’s Time to Worry", Newsweek (retrieved 16 June 2013):

In 1970 the richest 1 percent made 9 percent of the nation’s income ; now that top slice makes closer to 25 percent.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}

(label) A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.

* Bishop Rust

more abundant incomes of light and strength from God

(Shakespeare)

A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.

(label) An entrance-fee.

(label) A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.

* Chapman

I would then make in and steep / My income in their blood.

A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.

That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.