Source vs. Origin — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Source and Origin
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Definitions
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.
Origin➦
The fact of originating; rise or derivation
The rumor had its origin in an impulsive remark.
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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.
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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
