Source and Cap

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

• A tight-fitting headdress.
• A top (as for a bottle. )
• A mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive.
  • synonyms: detonator, detonating device
• Something serving as a cover or protection.
• A fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom.
  • synonyms: pileus
• A protective covering that is part of a plant.
  • synonyms: hood
• An upper limit on what is allowed.
  • usage: "he put a ceiling on the number of women who worked for him"; "there was a roof on salaries"; "they established a cap for prices"
  • synonyms: ceiling, roof
• Dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth. (
  • usage: "tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown"
  • synonyms: crown, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown
• The upper part of a column that supports the entablature.
  • synonyms: capital, chapiter

verb

• Lie at the top of.
  • usage: "Snow capped the mountains"
  • synonyms: crest
• Restrict the number or amount of.
  • usage: "We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club"

• (n.) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
• (v.t.) To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs.
• (n.) The removable cover of a journal box.
• (v.t.) To deprive of cap.
• (n.) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
• (v.t.) To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity.
• (n.) A respectful uncovering of the head.
• (n.) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
• (n.) A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap.
• (n.) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts; as, the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel or plate.
• (n.) Anything resembling a cap in form, position or use.
• (n.) The top or uppermost part; the chief.
• (v.t.) To cover with a cap or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun.
• (n.) One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office or dignity, as that of a cardinal.
• (n.) One of lace, muslin, etc., for women or infants.
• (n.) Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
• (n.) A covering for the head.
• (v.t.) To salute by removing the cap.
• (n.) A percussion cap. See under Percussion.
• (v.i.) To uncover the head respectfully.
• (n.) One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys.

(Military) CAP stands for one of the following: Civil Air Patrol; civil augmentation program; combat air patrol; configuration and alarm panel; Consolidated Appeals Process (UN); crisis action planning

(1) the maximum allowable interest rate increase for adjustable rate mortgages.' cap's embedded in mortgage agreements may limit the amount of upward change in the rate of interest at each adjustment period and provide a fixed maximum over which the rate cannot rise during the life of the loan. (2) an agreement negotiated between a buyer and seller. The buyer of a cap agreement pays a fee to the seller. In return, the seller will pay the buyer if a designated floating index rate is higher than a specified fixed rate on designated days. The seller pays nothing If the floating rate is below the fixed rate. Buyers of cap agreements use them to hedge against rising interest rates, because payments to the buyer increase as rates rise. See: floor. See: collar.