What's the difference between fountainhead and wellhead?

Fountainhead


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Wellhead


Definition:

  • (n.) A source, spring, or fountain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Barack Obama's investigation hears of 'friction' 13 July BP successfully installs a new, more tightly fitting containment cap on the ruptured wellhead.
  • (2) The blowout preventer, which failed to stem the flow of oil when the wellhead erupted and is widely used throughout the industry, is likely to be declared not fit for purpose, he added.
  • (3) Some experts who have studied video footage of the oil spewing from the wellhead have estimated the rate of spillage at up to 13m litres a day – 14 times greater than BP's figure.
  • (4) A nation’s eyes rolled when Ian Cumming, another of this season’s finalists, declared that he was baking with eggs laid by his own guinea fowl: of course he fashioned his own device to cut lady fingers to precisely 9cm long; of course it was he who constructed a wellhead from tempered chocolate with a bucket that drew a lemon-flavoured, white chocolate drink from its depths.
  • (5) Wellheads were being destroyed, because they could not maintain pressure.
  • (6) From the wellhead to the swing set was 536ft.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A billboard urges voters to back the ban.
  • (7) "It can take only three weeks to drill a well in the US and then everything is taken off site, leaving a wellhead as small as a desktop.
  • (8) Admiral Thad Allen, who is in charge of the US government's response, has written to BP demanding answers to "undetermined anomalies at the wellhead".
  • (9) The majority of the total, according to the company, was lost through two incidents – one in which thieves damaged a wellhead at its Odidi field, and another where militants bombed the Trans Escravos pipeline.
  • (10) A tall hedge can hide a wellhead, according to Francis Egan, chief executive of Cuadrilla, who calculates hundreds of wells will be required.

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