source vs provenance
provenance vs sourcesource and provenance both are nouns.
source is a verb but provenance is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| source | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| provenance | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
provenance is a hyponym of
source; that is, provenance is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
source:
- source: the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- provenance: where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
Other hyponyms of source include
derivation, spring, fountainhead, head, headspring, headwater, wellhead, wellspring, jumping-off place, point of departure, birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenience, home, point source, trail head, trailhead.
| source (noun) | provenance (noun) |
|---|---|
| a facility where something is available | where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence |
| anything that provides inspiration for later work | |
| a document (or organization) from which information is obtained | |
| a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to | |
| the place where something begins, where it springs into being | |
| anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies | |
| someone who originates or causes or initiates something | |
| a person who supplies information | |
| (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system |
| source (verb) | provenance (verb) |
|---|---|
| specify the origin of | |
| get (a product) from another country or business |
Words related to "source"
- Golconda
- action
- activity
- applied science
- author
- beginning
- betrayer
- birthplace
- blabber
- coiner
- communicator
- cradle
- derivation
- document
- engineering
- engineering science
- facility
- fountainhead
- generator
- germ
- gold mine
- goldmine
- head
- headspring
- headwater
- home
- informant
- informer
- inspiration
- installation
- jumping-off place
- leaker
- maker
- muse
- natural action
- natural process
- obtain
- origin
- outsource
- papers
- passive source
- place of origin
- point
- point of departure
- point source
- provenance
- provenience
- publication
- rat
- reference
- reservoir
- root
- rootage
- seed
- shaper
- sink
- source materials
- spring
- squealer
- taproot
- technology
- thing
- trail head
- trailhead
- well
- wellhead
- wellspring
- whistle blower
- whistle-blower
- whistleblower
- written document
Words related to "provenance"
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