Source vs. Fountain: What's the Difference?
Source and Fountain Definitions
Source
A person or thing from which something comes into being or is derived or obtained
Alternative sources of energy.
The source of funding for the project.
Fountain
An artificially created jet or stream of water.
Source
The point of origin of a stream or river.
Fountain
A structure, often decorative, from which a jet or stream of water issues.
Source
One, such as a person or document, that supplies information
Reporters are only as reliable as their sources.
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Fountain
A spring, especially the source of a stream.
Source
(Physics) The point or part of a system where energy or mass is added to the system.
Fountain
A reservoir or chamber containing a supply of liquid that can be siphoned off as needed.
Source
To specify the origin of (a communication); document
The report is thoroughly sourced.
Fountain
A soda fountain.
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Source
To obtain (materials or parts) from another business, country, or locale for manufacture
They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.
Fountain
A drinking fountain.
Source
To outsource or insource (tasks or jobs, for example).
Fountain
A point of origin or dissemination; a source
The library, a fountain of information.
Source
The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling.
Fountain
To flow or cause to flow like a fountain.
Source
Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.
Fountain
(originally) A natural source of water; a spring.
Source
A reporter's informant.
Fountain
An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
Source
(computing) Source code.
Fountain
The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
Source
(electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
Fountain
A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
Source
To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
Fountain
A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
Source
(transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source from which it comes: to find a citation for.
Fountain
(heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
Source
The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
Therefore right as an hawk upon a soursUp springeth into the air, right so prayers . . . Maken their sours to Goddes ears two.
Fountain
(juggling) A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
Source
The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
Where as the Poo out of a welle smallTaketh his firste springing and his sours.
Kings that ruleBehind the hidden sources of the Nile.
Fountain
(US) A soda fountain.
Source
That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.
This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself.
The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense.
Fountain
(US) A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.
Source
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
Fountain
A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.
Source
A person who supplies information
Fountain
Anything that resembles a fountain in operation.
Source
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
Fountain
(intransitive) To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
Lava fountained from the volcano.
Source
A document (or organization) from which information is obtained;
The reporter had two sources for the story
Fountain
A spring of water issuing from the earth.
Source
A facility where something is available
Fountain
An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament.
Source
Anything that provides inspiration for later work
Fountain
A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc.
Source
Someone who originates or causes or initiates something;
He was the generator of several complaints
Fountain
The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source.
Judea, the fountain of the gospel.
Author of all being,Fountain of light, thyself invisible.
Source
(technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system;
A heat source
A source of carbon dioxide
Fountain
A structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises
Source
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
Fountain
A natural flow of ground water
Source
Get (a product) from another country or business;
She sourced a supply of carpet
They are sourcing from smaller companies
Fountain
An artificially produced flow of water
Source
Specify the origin of;
The writer carefully sourced her report
Fountain
A plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water
