crowdsourcing | (noun) Work done by a large group of anonymous users | - |
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outsource | (verb) obtain goods or services from an outside supplier; to contract work out | - |
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resource | (noun) a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed | - |
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(noun) the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems | Synonyms: imagination, resourcefulness |
(noun) available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed | - |
resourceful | (adjective) having inner resources; adroit or imaginative | - |
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resourcefully | (adverb) in a resourceful manner | - |
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resourcefulness | (noun) the quality of being able to cope with a difficult situation | - |
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(noun) the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems | Synonyms: imagination, resource |
resourceless | (adjective) lacking or deficient in natural resources | - |
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sour | (adjective) having a sharp biting taste | - |
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(adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen |
(adjective) inaccurate in pitch | Synonyms: false, off-key |
(adjective) smelling of fermentation or staleness | Synonyms: rancid |
(adjective) in an unpalatable state | Synonyms: off, turned |
(adjective) one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons | - |
(noun) the property of being acidic | Synonyms: acidity, sourness |
(noun) the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: sourness, tartness |
(noun) a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar | - |
(verb) go sour or spoil | Synonyms: ferment, turn, work |
(verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidify, acidulate |
sourball | (noun) round piece of tart hard candy | - |
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source | (noun) a facility where something is available | - |
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(noun) anything that provides inspiration for later work | Synonyms: germ, seed |
(noun) a document (or organization) from which information is obtained | - |
(noun) a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to | Synonyms: reference |
(noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: beginning, origin, root, rootage |
(noun) anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies | Synonyms: reservoir |
(noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something | Synonyms: author, generator |
(noun) a person who supplies information | Synonyms: informant |
(noun) (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system | - |
(verb) specify the origin of | - |
(verb) get (a product) from another country or business | - |
sourdine | (noun) an organ stop resulting in a soft muted sound | - |
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(noun) a mute for a violin | Synonyms: sordino |
sourdough | (noun) a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska) | - |
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(noun) a leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread | - |
soured | (adjective) having turned bad | - |
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souring | (noun) the process of becoming sour | - |
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sourish | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemonlike, lemony, tangy, tart |
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sourly | (adverb) in a sour manner | - |
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sourness | (noun) the property of being acidic | Synonyms: acidity, sour |
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(noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: moroseness, sulkiness, sullenness |
(noun) the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: sour, tartness |
sourpuss | (noun) someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression | Synonyms: gloomy Gus, picklepuss, pouter |
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soursop | (noun) large spiny tropical fruit with tart pulp related to custard apples | Synonyms: guanabana |
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(noun) small tropical American tree bearing large succulent slightly acid fruit | Synonyms: Annona muricata, prickly custard apple, soursop tree |
sourwood | (noun) deciduous shrubby tree of eastern North America having deeply fissured bark and sprays of small fragrant white flowers and sour-tasting leaves | Synonyms: Oxydendrum arboreum, sorrel tree, titi |
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unsoured | (adjective) not having turned bad | - |
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