Source vs. Origin

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Sourcenoun

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

Sourcenoun

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

Sourcenoun

A reporter's informant.

Sourcenoun

(computing) Source code.

Sourcenoun

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

Sourceverb

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

Sourceverb

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

Sourcenoun

The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

Sourcenoun

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

Sourcenoun

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

Sourcenoun

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

Sourcenoun

a person who supplies information

Sourcenoun

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

Sourcenoun

a document (or organization) from which information is obtained;

Sourcenoun

a facility where something is available

Sourcenoun

anything that provides inspiration for later work

Sourcenoun

someone who originates or causes or initiates something;

Sourcenoun

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

Sourcenoun

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

Sourceverb

get (a product) from another country or business;

Sourceverb

specify the origin of;

Originnoun

The beginning of something.

Originnoun

The source of a river, information, goods, etc.

Originnoun

(mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.

Originnoun

(anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.

Originnoun

(cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.

Originnoun

(in the plural) Ancestry.

Originnoun

The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.

Originnoun

That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.

Originnoun

The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; - in contradistinction to insertion.

Originnoun

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

Originnoun

properties attributable to your ancestry;

Originnoun

an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

Originnoun

the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero

Originnoun

the descendants of one individual;

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