What's the difference between fountainhead and springhead?

Fountainhead


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  • (1) On Sunday, top BJP leaders were meeting counterparts in the RSS , seen as the ideological fountainhead of the party.
  • (2) In retrospect, so much about Theranos seems suspect – the secretiveness of the company, the choice to have a majority of men like Henry Kissinger and George Schultz on the board of directors instead of health professionals, and the idea that a college dropout could found a company that could be the fountainhead from which a new way of doing all our medical testing springs forth.
  • (3) I can do it too.” Kalanick, who thinks Ayn Rand ’s libertarian novel The Fountainhead is “an awesome” book, may talk like a surfer but he thinks like a salesman.
  • (4) Gershom Scholem, the fountainhead of Jewish mysticism, thought Benjamin was a most special soul but why on earth did he converse with those leftists?
  • (5) The corporate sector will be able to move into a new age only when it deals with its hidden guilt and shows the humility, vulnerability and open-heartedness that are the fountainhead of trust.
  • (6) After View, he's back in Amsterdam for an adaptation of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead , then Schiller's Mary Stuart.
  • (7) It’s a measure of how far the eurozone has departed from that founding mythology that the IMF, the fountainhead of economic neoliberalism, has sometimes found itself having to act as a moderating force as the bailout talks have dragged on in recent weeks.
  • (8) In 2013 the company was acquired by Roark Capital Group, an Atlanta-based private equity firm named for Howard Roark, the leading protagonist in Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead.
  • (9) Its radical author, who also penned The Fountainhead and other novels and essays, is the subject of a recent documentary and spate of books.

Springhead


Definition:

  • (n.) A fountain or source.

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