different between resource vs source

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ressource, from Old French resourse, resource (“a source, spring”), from resourdre, from Latin resurg? (“to rise again, spring up anew”). See resourd, resurgent, source.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???s??s/, /???z??s/, /??i?s??s/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /??is??s/, /???z??s/, /???s??s/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /??i(?)so(?)?s/, /???zo(?)?s/, /???so(?)?s/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /???so?s/, /???zo?s/, /??i?so?s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Noun

resource (plural resources)

1. Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel.
2. A person's capacity to deal with difficulty.

Derived terms

Related terms

• source

Translations

See also

• means

References

• resource in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• resource in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Verb

resource (third-person singular simple present resources, present participle resourcing, simple past and past participle resourced)

1. To supply with resources.

Translations

Anagrams

• recourse

Old French

Etymology

From the past participle of the verb resourdre, itself from Latin resurg?.

Noun

resource f (oblique plural resources, nominative singular resource, nominative plural resources)

1. act of raising

Descendants

• ? English: resource
• French: ressource

English

Etymology

From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surg? (“to rise”). See surge.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??s/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /so(?)?s/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /so?s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s
• Homophone: sauce (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Noun

source (plural sources)

1. The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
2. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
3. A reporter's informant.
4. (computing) Source code.
5. (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

Synonyms

• wellspring

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• resource

Translations

See also

• target

Verb

source (third-person singular simple present sources, present participle sourcing, simple past and past participle sourced)

1. (chiefly US) To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
2. (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.

Derived terms

• (mainly US): sourcing
• (mainly US): insourcing
• (mainly US): outsourcing

Translations

Further reading

• source in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• source in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• 'course, Couser, Crouse, Crusoe, cerous, coures, course, crouse

French

Etymology

From Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgere (“to rise”). See surge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?s/

Noun

source f (plural sources)

1. source, spring (of water)

Derived terms

• code source
• couler de source
• eau de source
• langue source

Descendants

• ? Romanian: surs?

Verb

source

1. inflection of sourcer:
   1. first-person singular/third-person singular present indicative/present subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “source” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• coeurs, cœurs
• coures
• course, coursé
• écrous