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Repository vs Fount - What's the difference?

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Repository is a related term of fount.


As nouns the difference between repository and fount

is that repository is a location for storage, often for safety or preservation while fount is something from which water flows or fount can be (typography|british|dated) a typographic font.

repository

English

(wikipedia repository)

Noun

(repositories)
  • a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
  • # (computing) a storage location for files, such as downloadable software packages, or files in a source control system
  • a burial vault
  • a person to whom a secret is entrusted

    • Synonyms

    * (location for storage) depository, archive

    Related terms

    * reposit

    fount

    English

    Etymology 1

    Shortening of fountain

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • something from which water flows
  • a device from which poultry may drink
  • (figuratively) that from which something flows or proceeds
    • He is a real fount of knowledge!
    Synonyms
    * font * fountain * (device from which animals drink) waterer

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) fonte'', feminine past participle of verb ''fondre : to melt.

    Alternative forms

    * font

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (typography, British, dated) A typographic font.

    • References

    * * Bringhurst, Robert (2002). The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.5 , pp 291–2. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. ISBN 0-88179-133-4.

    Anagrams

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