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Crowdsource vs Crowdsourced - What's the difference?

crowdsource | crowdsourced |

As verbs the difference between crowdsource and crowdsourced

is that crowdsource is to delegate a task to a large, diffuse group while crowdsourced is past tense of crowdsource.

As an adjective crowdsourced is

obtained by crowdsourcing.

crowdsource

English

Verb

(crowdsourc)
  • to delegate a task to a large, diffuse group
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 30, author=William Safire, title=Clunkers, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=And I sometimes “crowdsource ,” asking for help in research from the Lexicographic Irregulars (like when I asked for sign-language suggestions for “thanks” and learned how the little Dutch boy felt when he pulled his finger out of the dike). }}

    crowdsourced

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Obtained by crowdsourcing.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (crowdsource)