Source vs. Origin — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Source and Origin
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Source
A person or thing from which something comes into being or is derived or obtained
Alternative sources of energy.
The source of funding for the project.
Origin
The point at which something comes into existence or from which it derives or is derived.
Source
The point of origin of a stream or river.
Origin
Often origins Ancestry
"We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try" (James Baldwin).
Source
One, such as a person or document, that supplies information
Reporters are only as reliable as their sources.
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Origin
The fact of originating; rise or derivation
The rumor had its origin in an impulsive remark.
Source
(Physics) The point or part of a system where energy or mass is added to the system.
Origin
(Anatomy) The point of attachment of a muscle that remains relatively fixed during contraction.
Source
To specify the origin of (a communication); document
The report is thoroughly sourced.
Origin
(Mathematics) The point of intersection of coordinate axes, as in the Cartesian coordinate system.
Source
To obtain (materials or parts) from another business, country, or locale for manufacture
They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.
Origin
The beginning of something.
Source
To outsource or insource (tasks or jobs, for example).
Origin
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
Source
The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling.
Origin
(mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
Source
Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.
Origin
(anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
Source
A reporter's informant.
Origin
(cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
Source
(computing) Source code.
Origin
(in the plural) Ancestry.
Source
(electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
Origin
The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry.
Source
To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
Origin
That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
Source
(transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source from which it comes: to find a citation for.
Origin
The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; - in contradistinction to insertion.
I think he would have set out just as he did, with the origin of ideas - the proper starting point of a grammarian, who is to treat of their signs.
Famous Greece,That source of art and cultivated thoughtWhich they to Rome, and Romans hither, brought.
Source
The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
Therefore right as an hawk upon a soursUp springeth into the air, right so prayers . . . Maken their sours to Goddes ears two.
Origin
The place where something begins, where it springs into being;
The Italian beginning of the Renaissance
Jupiter was the origin of the radiation
Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River
Communism's Russian root
Source
The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
Where as the Poo out of a welle smallTaketh his firste springing and his sours.
Kings that ruleBehind the hidden sources of the Nile.
Origin
Properties attributable to your ancestry;
He comes from good origins
Source
That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.
This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself.
The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense.
Origin
An event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
Source
The place where something begins, where it springs into being;
The Italian beginning of the Renaissance
Jupiter was the origin of the radiation
Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River
Communism's Russian root
Origin
The point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
Source
A person who supplies information
Origin
The descendants of one individual;
His entire lineage has been warriors
Source
A publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to;
He carried an armful of references back to his desk
He spent hours looking for the source of that quotation
Source
A document (or organization) from which information is obtained;
The reporter had two sources for the story
Source
A facility where something is available
Source
Anything that provides inspiration for later work
Source
Someone who originates or causes or initiates something;
He was the generator of several complaints
Source
(technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system;
A heat source
A source of carbon dioxide
Source
Anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies;
An infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival
Source
Get (a product) from another country or business;
She sourced a supply of carpet
They are sourcing from smaller companies
Source
Specify the origin of;
The writer carefully sourced her report
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