Source vs Method - What's the difference?
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The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
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, title= Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
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(computing) Source code.
(electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
(chiefly, US) To obtain or procure:
To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.
A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process):
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, title= A type of theatrical acting wherein the actor utilizes his personal emotions from personal experience to portray a scripted scene.
(programming, object-oriented) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.
(slang) Marijuana.
As nouns the difference between source and method
is that source is the person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired while method is a process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process).As a verb source
is to obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.source
English
(wikipedia source)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.}}
The rise of smart beta, passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.}}
John Vidal
Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas, passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources . Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.}}
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* sourceless * source code * primary source * secondary source * tertiary sourceSee also
* targetVerb
Derived terms
* (mainly US) sourcing * (mainly US) insourcing * (mainly US) outsourcingExternal links
* *Anagrams
* ----method
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method , and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close