Origin vs Fountain - What's the difference?
origin | fountain | Synonyms |
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.
(label) A spring, natural source of water.
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.
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, passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain , and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
A source, origin of a flow (e.g. of favors, of knowledge).
A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that thows it.
(label) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
(label) A soda fountain.
To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
* (Tom Reamy), Blind Voices
As nouns the difference between origin and fountain
is that origin is the beginning of something while fountain is a spring, natural source of water.As a verb fountain is
to flow or gush as if from a fountain.origin
English
Noun
(en noun)Sam Leith
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Synonyms
* (source) source * (mathematics) zero vectorAntonyms
* (source) destination * (anatomy) insertionSee also
* provenanceExternal links
* *fountain
English
Noun
(en noun)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
Synonyms
* fount * wellspringDerived terms
* fountainlet * fountain pen * fountainhead * drinking fountain * soda fountain * water fountainVerb
(en verb)- The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like ocean breakers, cascading, fountaining into the air.