different between repository vs fount
repository
English
Etymology
From Latin reposit?rium.
Pronunciation
Noun
repository (plural repositories)
- A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
- (computing) a storage location for files, such as downloadable software packages, or files in a source control system.
- A burial vault.
- (figuratively) A person to whom a secret is entrusted.
- (dated) A place where things are kept for sale; a shop.
Synonyms
- (location for storage): depository, archive
Related terms
- reposit
Translations
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fount
English
Etymology 1
Shortening of fountain
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?nt
Noun
fount (plural founts)
- Something from which water flows.
- A device from which poultry may drink.
- (figuratively) That from which something flows or proceeds; a source.
- He is a real fount of knowledge!
Synonyms
- font
- fountain
- (device from which animals drink): waterer
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).
Alternative forms
- font
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?nt/
- Homophone: font
Noun
fount (plural founts)
- (typography, Britain, dated) A typographic font.
References
- “fount” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Bringhurst, Robert (2002). The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.5, pp 291–2. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. ?ISBN.
Anagrams
- FUTON, futon
Occitan
Noun
fount f (plural founts)
- spring, fountain
fount From the web:
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- what fountain pen should i buy
- what fountain is in friends
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