Source and Action

noun

• The place where something begins, where it springs into being.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: beginning, origin, root, rootage
• A document (or organization) from which information is obtained.
  • usage: "the reporter had two sources for the story"
• Anything that provides inspiration for later work.
  • synonyms: seed, germ
• A facility where something is available.
• A person who supplies information.
  • synonyms: informant
• Someone who originates or causes or initiates something.
  • usage: "he was the generator of several complaints"
  • synonyms: generator, author
• Technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system. (
  • usage: "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide"
• Anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies.
  • usage: "an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival"
  • synonyms: reservoir
• A publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to.
  • usage: "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation"
  • synonyms: reference

verb

• Get (a product) from another country or business.
  • usage: "She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies"
• Specify the origin of.
  • usage: "The writer carefully sourced her report"

• (n.) The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
• (n.) The rising from the ground or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
• (n.) That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.

(DoD) A person, thing, or activity from which information is obtained.
(DoD) In clandestine activities, a person (agent), normally a foreign national, in the employ of an intelligence activity for intelligence purposes.
(DoD) In interrogation activities, any person who furnishes information, either with or without the knowledge that the information is being used for intelligence purposes. In this context, a controlled source is in the employment or under the control of the intelligence activity and knows that the information is to be used for intelligence purposes. An uncontrolled source is a voluntary contributor of information and may or may not know that the information is to be used for intelligence purposes. See also agent; collection agency.

noun

• Something done (usually as opposed to something said. )
  • usage: "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions"
• The state of being active.
  • usage: "his sphere of activity"; "he is out of action"
  • synonyms: activity, activeness
• A military engagement.
  • usage: "he saw action in Korea"
  • synonyms: military action
• A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings. )
  • usage: "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity"
  • synonyms: natural process, natural action, activity
• The series of events that form a plot.
  • usage: "his novels always have a lot of action"
• The trait of being active and energetic and forceful.
  • usage: "a man of action"
• The operating part that transmits power to a mechanism.
  • usage: "the piano had a very stiff action"
  • synonyms: action mechanism
• A judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong.
  • synonyms: legal action, action at law
• An act by a government body or supranational organization.
  • usage: "recent federal action undermined the segregationist position"; "the United Nations must have the power to propose and organize action without being hobbled by irrelevant issues"; "the Union action of emancipating Southern slaves"
• The most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field.
  • usage: "the action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds"; "gawkers always try to get as close to the action as possible"

verb

• Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against.
  • usage: "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination"
  • synonyms: sue, litigate, process
• Put in effect.
  • usage: "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation"
  • synonyms: carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, fulfill, fulfil

• (n.) A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action.
• (n.) An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor.
• (n.) The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
• (n.) Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action.
• (n.) Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun.
• (n.) Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles or the gastric juice.
• (n.) Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject or to the feelings.
• (n.) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
• (n.) A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong or the punishment of a public offense.
• (n.) A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim.
• (n.) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks.
• (n.) An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action.
• (n.) The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe.

Action is a proceeding in a Court of law where one person seeks a Court Order for the enforcement of that person's or company's rights.