Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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well | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
source | Yes | No | Yes | No |
well (noun) | source (noun) |
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a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine | a facility where something is available |
an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps | anything that provides inspiration for later work |
an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway) | a document (or organization) from which information is obtained |
a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid | a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to |
an abundant source | the place where something begins, where it springs into being |
anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies | |
someone who originates or causes or initiates something | |
a person who supplies information | |
(technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system |
well (adjective) | source (adjective) |
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in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury | |
wise or advantageous and hence advisable | |
resulting favorably |
well (verb) | source (verb) |
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come up, as of a liquid | specify the origin of |
get (a product) from another country or business |
well (adverb) | source (adverb) |
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(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well') | |
without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor | |
indicating high probability; in all likelihood | |
thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form | |
favorably; with approval | |
to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree | |
in financial comfort | |
in a manner affording benefit or advantage | |
to a great extent or degree | |
with skill or in a pleasing manner | |
with prudence or propriety | |
with great or especially intimate knowledge | |
(used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully |