Source vs. Fountain

The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

Example: ‘The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling.’;

Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.

Example: ‘The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.’;

A reporter's informant.

(computing) Source code.

(electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.

(transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source from which it comes: to find a citation for.

The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

Example: ‘Therefore right as an hawk upon a soursUp springeth into the air, right so prayers . . . Maken their sours to Goddes ears two.’;

The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.

Example: ‘Where as the Poo out of a welle smallTaketh his firste springing and his sours.’; ‘Kings that ruleBehind the hidden sources of the Nile.’;

That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.

Example: ‘This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself.’; ‘The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense.’;

the place where something begins, where it springs into being;

Example: ‘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’;

a person who supplies information

a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to;

Example: ‘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;

Example: ‘the reporter had two sources for the story’;

a facility where something is available

anything that provides inspiration for later work

someone who originates or causes or initiates something;

Example: ‘he was the generator of several complaints’;

(technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system;

Example: ‘a heat source’; ‘a source of carbon dioxide’;

anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies;

Example: ‘an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival’;

get (a product) from another country or business;

Example: ‘She sourced a supply of carpet’; ‘They are sourcing from smaller companies’;

specify the origin of;

Example: ‘The writer carefully sourced her report’;

(originally) A natural source of water; a spring.

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.

The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.

A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.

A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).

(heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.

(juggling) A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.

(US) A soda fountain.

(intransitive) To flow or gush as if from a fountain.

Example: ‘Lava fountained from the volcano.’;

A spring of water issuing from the earth.

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.

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.

The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source.

Example: ‘Judea, the fountain of the gospel.’; ‘Author of all being,Fountain of light, thyself invisible.’;

a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises

a natural flow of ground water

an artificially produced flow of water

a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water

A fountain (from the Latin (genitive ), a source or spring) is a structure which squirts water into a basin to supply drinking water. It is also a structure that jets water into the air for a decorative or dramatic effect.

Example: ‘fons’; ‘fontis’;