Fount vs Origin - What's the difference?
fount | origin |
something from which water flows
a device from which poultry may drink
(figuratively) that from which something flows or proceeds
The beginning of something.
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
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, title= (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
(anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
(cartography) An arbitrary point on the earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
(in the plural) Ancestry.
As nouns the difference between fount and origin
is that fount is something from which water flows or fount can be (typography|british|dated) a typographic font while origin is the beginning of something.fount
English
Etymology 1
Shortening of fountainNoun
(en noun)- He is a real fount of knowledge!
Synonyms
* font * fountain * (device from which animals drink) watererEtymology 2
From (etyl) fonte'', feminine past participle of verb ''fondre : to melt.Alternative forms
* fontReferences
* * Bringhurst, Robert (2002). The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.5 , pp 291–2. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. ISBN 0-88179-133-4.Anagrams
*origin
English
Noun
(en noun)Sam Leith
Where the profound meets the profane, passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.}}