Source vs Origin - 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.
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.
Origin is a synonym of source.
As nouns the difference between source and origin
is that source is the person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired while origin is the beginning of something.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
* ----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.}}