Supplier vs. Source — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Supplier and Source
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Supplier
A person or organization that provides something needed such as a product or service
The company has to pay suppliers within 90 days of purchase
Suppliers of health care
Every major energy supplier upped their prices
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.
Supplier
To make available for use; provide
Does the hotel supply towels?.
Source
The point of origin of a stream or river.
Supplier
To provide something necessary or desired to; furnish or equip
Supplied the players with uniforms.
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Source
One, such as a person or document, that supplies information
Reporters are only as reliable as their sources.
Supplier
To have as a necessary or desirable feature
A crime scene that supplied valuable evidence.
Source
(Physics) The point or part of a system where energy or mass is added to the system.
Supplier
To fill sufficiently; satisfy
Supply a need.
Source
To specify the origin of (a communication); document
The report is thoroughly sourced.
Supplier
To make up for (a deficiency, for example); compensate for.
Source
To obtain (materials or parts) from another business, country, or locale for manufacture
They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.
Supplier
The act of supplying
Funds for the supply of the expedition.
Source
To outsource or insource (tasks or jobs, for example).
Supplier
An amount available or sufficient for a given use; stock
Our supply of milk is low.
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.
Supplier
Often supplies Materials or provisions stored and dispensed when needed.
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.
Supplier
(Economics) The amount of a commodity available for meeting a demand or for purchase at a given price.
Source
A reporter's informant.
Supplier
One who supplies; a provider.
Source
(computing) Source code.
Supplier
(soccer) Someone who assists (sets up) a goal.
Source
(electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
Supplier
One who supplies.
Source
To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
Supplier
Someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity
Source
(transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source from which it comes: to find a citation for.
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.
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.
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.
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
Source
A person who supplies information
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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