Source and Stream

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 natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth.
  • synonyms: watercourse
• Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas.
  • usage: "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"
  • synonyms: flow, current
• The act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression.
  • synonyms: flow
• Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously.
  • usage: "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"
  • synonyms: flow
• A steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes. )
  • usage: "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the hose ejected a stream of water"
  • synonyms: current

verb

• To extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind.
  • usage: "their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind"
• Exude profusely.
  • usage: "She was streaming with sweat"; "His nose streamed blood"
• Move in large numbers.
  • usage: "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza"
  • synonyms: pour, swarm, teem, pullulate
• Rain heavily.
  • usage: "Put on your rain coat- it's pouring outside"
  • synonyms: pour, pelt, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets
• Flow freely and abundantly.
  • usage: "Tears streamed down her face"
  • synonyms: well out

• (v.t.) To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
• (v.i.) To pour out or emit, a stream or streams.
• (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
• (v.t.) To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
• (v.i.) To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes.
• (n.) A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
• (n.) Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.
• (n.) A beam or ray of light.
• (n.) A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc. or from a vessel, reservoir or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
• (v.i.) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
• (v.i.) To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
• (v.t.) To unfurl.

(Military) STREAM stands for standard tensioned replenishment alongside method