Source vs Shin - What's the difference?
source | shin |
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 front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone.
A fishplate for a railway.
To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.
To strike with the shin.
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, date=January 5
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(US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
As a noun source
is the person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc) comes or is acquired.As a verb source
is (chiefly|us) to obtain or procure:.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
* ----shin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) shine, from (etyl) scinu, from (etyl) . Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene.Noun
(en noun)- (Knight)
Synonyms
* tibiaVerb
(shinn)- to shin up a mast
citation, page= , passage=The warning signs had been there as Peter Cech had already had to palm away a stinging shot from Ronald Zubar but immediately afterwards the Blues goalkeeper could only watch in horror as defender Boswinga shinned the ball into his own net from Hunt's corner. }}
- (Bartlett)