resource vs synthetic

resource

noun
  • Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel. 

  • Something that can be used to help achieve an aim, especially a book, equipment, etc. that provides information for teachers and students. 

  • A person's capacity to deal with difficulty. 

  • Hardware or software accessible by a computer, network, or another object connected to a computer. 

verb
  • To source anew or differently; to find or provide a new source for. 

  • To supply with resources. 

synthetic

noun
  • A synthetic compound. 

adj
  • Of, or relating to synthesis. 

  • Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained). 

  • Artificial, not genuine. 

  • Produced by synthesis, thought to have the same effect as its natural counterpart, but chemically different from it. 

  • Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic). 

  • Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships (compare analytic). 

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