| sour | A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect. 1. To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances. "So the sun's heat, with different powers, Ripens the grape, the liquor sours." (Swift) 2. To make cold and unproductive, as soil. 3. To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable. "To sour your happiness I must report, The queen is dead." (Shak) 4. To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly. "Souring his cheeks." "Pride had not sour'd nor wrath debased my heart." (Harte) 5. To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes. Origin: AS. Srian to sour, to become sour. 1. Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart. "All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite." (Bacon) 2. Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned. 3. Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply. "A sour countenance." "He was a scholar . . . Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer." (Shak) 4. Afflictive; painful. "Sour adversity." 5. Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh. <botany> Sour dock, the edible acid fruit of an Australian tree (Owenia venosa); also, the tree itself, which furnished a hard reddish wood used by wheelwrights. Synonym: Acid, sharp, tart, acetous, acetose, harsh, acrimonious, crabbed, currish, peevish. Origin: OE. Sour, sur, AS. Sr; akin to D. Zuur, G. Sauer, OHG. Sr, Icel. Srr, Sw. Sur, Dan. Suur, Lith. Suras salt, Russ. Surovui harsh, rough. Cf. Sorrel, the plant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| source emission reduction plan | (SERP) A contingency plan developed to reduce emissions during an air quality emergency. (05 Dec 1998) |
| souring | <botany> Any sour apple. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sourish | Somewhat sour; moderately acid; as, sourish fruit; a sourish taste. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| soursop | <botany> The large succulent and slightly acid fruit of a small tree (Anona muricata) of the West Indies; also, the tree itself. It is closely allied to the custard apple. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sourt | 1. A sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid, as of water from a tube, orifice, or other confined place, or of blood from a wound; a jet; a spirt. 2. A shoot; a bud. 3. A sudden outbreak; as, a spurt of jealousy. <botany> Spurt grass, a rush fit for basket work. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sourwood | <botany> The sorrel tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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beginning: the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "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" informant: a person who supplies information reference: a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to; "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation" a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story" a facility where something is available anything that provides inspiration for later work generator: someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints" (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system; "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide" get (a product) from another country or business; "She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies" specify the origin of; "The writer carefully sourced her report" reservoir: anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies; "an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival"
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| sour cherry |
rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit Australian tree with sour red fruit acid cherries used for pies and preserves
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A radioactive material that produces radiation for experimental or industrial use.
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The source for electronic copies of the data values or data sets described by the standard.
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A component from which the system's signals originate. DVD player, AM/FM tuners, and VCRs are sources.
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| sour | the property of being acidic |
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| sour | the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth |
| sour | a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar |
| sour | go sour or spoil |
| sour | make sour or more sour |
| sour | smelling of fermentation or staleness |
| sour | showing a brooding ill humor |
| sour | inaccurate in pitch |
| sour | having a sharp biting taste |
| sour | in an unpalatable state |
| sour | one of the four basic taste sensations |
| sour | acid cherries used for pies and preserves |
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