Source vs. Origin

Sourcenoun

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.’;

Originnoun

The beginning of something.

Sourcenoun

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.’;

Originnoun

The source of a river, information, goods, etc.

Sourcenoun

A reporter's informant.

Originnoun

(mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.

Sourcenoun

(computing) Source code.

Originnoun

(anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.

Sourcenoun

(electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

Originnoun

(cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.

Sourceverb

To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.

Originnoun

(in the plural) Ancestry.

Sourceverb

(transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source from which it comes: to find a citation for.

Originnoun

The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.

‘This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry.’;

Sourcenoun

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.’;

Originnoun

That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.

Sourcenoun

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.’;

Originnoun

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.’;

Sourcenoun

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.’;

Originnoun

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’;

Sourcenoun

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’;

Originnoun

properties attributable to your ancestry;

‘he comes from good origins’;

Sourcenoun

a person who supplies information

Originnoun

an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

Sourcenoun

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’;

Originnoun

the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero

Sourcenoun

a document (or organization) from which information is obtained;

‘the reporter had two sources for the story’;

Originnoun

the descendants of one individual;

‘his entire lineage has been warriors’;

Sourcenoun

a facility where something is available

Sourcenoun

anything that provides inspiration for later work

Sourcenoun

someone who originates or causes or initiates something;

‘he was the generator of several complaints’;

Sourcenoun

(technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system;

‘a heat source’; ‘a source of carbon dioxide’;

Sourcenoun

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’;

Sourceverb

get (a product) from another country or business;

‘She sourced a supply of carpet’; ‘They are sourcing from smaller companies’;

Sourceverb

specify the origin of;

‘The writer carefully sourced her report’;