different between source vs foundation

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

English

Etymology

From Latin fund?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fa?n?de???n/, [fa??n?de???n?]
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

foundation (countable and uncountable, plural foundations)

1. The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

   Synonym: establishment

   Antonyms: abolition, dissolution, ruination

2. That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; underbuilding.

   Synonyms: groundwork, basis
3. (figuratively) The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise or system to develop.

   Synonyms: groundwork, platform, stage

   • 2006, K P Yadav, Economic Planning And Restructuring, Sarup & Sons ?ISBN, page 44

     The implication is that the Gandhian model of growth is possible, now that Nehru's investment strategy had already laid a strong foundation for economic growth.

4. (card games) In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build, usually holding all cards of a suit in ascending order.
6. (architecture) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.

   Synonyms: base, groundwall

7. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
8. That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.

9. (cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.
10. A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• foundation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia