What's the difference between fountain and wellspring?

Fountain


Definition:

  • (n.) A spring of water issuing from the earth.
  • (n.) An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament.
  • (n.) A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc.
  • (n.) The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1971 the Fountain Valley (Calif.) High School established a program at Fairview State Hospital in Costa Mesa.
  • (2) Although only a small section of the site has been excavated, there are baths, luxurious houses, an amphitheatre, a forum, shops, gardens with working fountains and city walls to explore, with many wonderful mosaics still in situ.
  • (3) Three minutes’ walk from Westfield is Centenary Square, the redeveloped public space that now blurs into City Park, a huge combination of a shallow artificial lake and towering fountains.
  • (4) Saying Robinson’s death made him heartsick, Reverend Alexander Gee Jr, pastor of the Fountain of Life church, recommended a soul-searching analysis.
  • (5) The city is a fountain that never stops: it generates its energy from the human interactions that take place in it.
  • (6) Atomization at the liquid surface and the production of a fountain contributed to aerosol formation.
  • (7) Tony Fountain, chief executive of the NDA, told workers on Wednesday morning: "The reason for this [closure] is directly related to the tragic events in Japan following the tsunami and its ongoing impact on the power markets.
  • (8) Private Eye's ideas of "new boys" are joke writers Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain, who have been there a mere 10 years.
  • (9) Two controlled studies at Fountain House examined the influence of psychiatric rehabilitation services on rehospitalization.
  • (10) Locomoting amoebae were monopodial, exhibited fountain flow cytoplasmic streaming and translocated externally bound erythrocytes to the rear of cells.
  • (11) Yun’s quest – a modern version of the age old dream of tapping the fountain of youth – is emblematic of the current enthusiasm to disrupt death sweeping Silicon Valley.
  • (12) Fountain, who had also been president of BP's North American power unit, is said to be on an "eye-watering" pay package, albeit one that would probably involve him taking a cut from his BP salary.
  • (13) As the poet Kahlil Gibran beautifully put it: “To the bee, a flower is the fountain of life, and to the flower, the bee is a messenger of love.” In the process of foraging for food, bees are designed to pollinate.
  • (14) We feel like outsiders, fading elderly creatures from a lost world of fountain pens, sherbert dips and wirelesses.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pixadores have also targeted historic sites such as the Ramos de Azevedo fountain in downtown São Paulo.
  • (16) Free Visit an urban beach Fountains on the South Bank, London.
  • (17) In December 2006, claimed £213.95 to repair fountain and hang lights on Christmas tree.
  • (18) Trundling on a cheesy tourist trail around the Italian capital (the Trevi fountain, the Spanish Steps), it tells four whimsical stories that never intersect, meaning that its most watchable stars – Alec Baldwin, Penélope Cruz, Roberto Benigni and Allen, appearing in one of his movies for the first time since Scoop, in 2006 – never interact.
  • (19) One of these is the Parque de los Deseos , a stone plaza with fountains that doubles as an outdoor amphitheatre for film screenings.
  • (20) P. aeruginosa was isolated from 45 of 353 environmental samples, including water fountains, ice machines, bar soaps, and germicide solutions for toilet brushes.

Wellspring


Definition:

  • (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source of continual supply.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The current problems and conflicts associated with training of vascular and general surgery residents exemplify the larger dilemma of educating subspecialists while preserving the wellspring of general surgery.
  • (2) The Wellspring Collective – they're good, they've dropped their prices down to compete with other shops, like Ganja Gourmet , right here.
  • (3) yet last week his administration cited as a wellspring of legal authority for the latest war.
  • (4) In Tunisia, the wellspring of the 2011 uprisings, the ruling party is Ennahda – a movement regarded as the Tunisian manifestation of the Brotherhood that, before the revolution, was practically in exile.
  • (5) The planning and cost of that road has overshadowed the long-planned development of a new container port, dubbed the outer harbour, at Kwinana – also outside the Canning electoral boundary, but a potential wellspring of jobs for the working-class suburbs that make up Canning’s northern reaches.
  • (6) Dan’s Silverleaf , part of a terrace of converted warehouses on Industrial Street near the square, is one of the wellsprings of the scene.
  • (7) This is the source of the intense current interest and wellspring of the grief that will flow when he is gone.
  • (8) Without public support, the wellspring from which future innovation and growth will come will dry up – not to say what will happen to our increasingly divided society.
  • (9) Having faced down the totalitarian dangers of fascism and communism, the world expects us to stand up for the principle that every person has the right to think and write and form relationships freely – because individual freedom is the wellspring of human progress.
  • (10) If all political belief originates from one of two wellsprings, if the last thing you should do to propagate your belief is to water it down, if backing it up with facts just weakens it, what would a debate look like, in a world of perfectly understood frames?
  • (11) Star Wars: The Force Awakens review – 'a spectacular homecoming' Read more In this reading, the original evil – the wellspring of Darth Vader and Sidious – is borrowed from Hitler.
  • (12) His own life would have been sadder if the wellspring of laughter inside him had not run so deep.
  • (13) It won’t be easy … but I remain hopeful.” ‘We’re going to leave it all on the field’ Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, told the Guardian: “What [everyone is] missing is that although the secretary [Clinton] has obviously racked up a substantial delegate lead, there is an incredible wellspring of support for the senator and it has not really made it through the process.” Weaver seems confident of a win in California.
  • (14) Paul said he was preparing to contest the reauthorization of 702, the legal wellspring of the NSA’s controversial Prism program.
  • (15) The first was to be established in Shanghai, a city that had been the wellspring of the most virulently leftist form of violent Maoist class struggle during the Cultural Revolution.
  • (16) Sensitivity on these issues is understandably high, given the rising incidence of antisemitism and hate crimes of all sorts, as well as Trump’s (possibly waning) closeness to Steve Bannon , whose Breitbart news is a wellspring of bigotry and propaganda.
  • (17) The HDZ has ruled since Croatia broke away from Yugoslavia in 1991, with the exception of a three-year hiatus in 2000-3, and in the past two years has been exposed as the wellspring of state-organised corruption and embezzlement on a massive scale.
  • (18) There is a wellspring of support within the nursing profession for the development of a true nursing paradigm, based on a unified theory to support practice, to advance the professional status of nursing in a changing health care environment.
  • (19) Saudi salafism is not the wellspring of hardline Islamic groups worldwide, but it is part of something that might be – a tendency for Arab and Muslim governments to pay lip service to Islam to bolster their religious credentials through politically expedient means.
  • (20) Civil libertarians consider the measure – the wellspring of the NSA’s Prism and “ upstream ” mass communications-data collection – unconstitutional .