What's the difference between muse and source?

Muse


Definition:

  • (n.) A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
  • (n.) One of the nine goddesses who presided over song and the different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural.
  • (n.) A particular power and practice of poetry.
  • (n.) A poet; a bard.
  • (n.) To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate.
  • (n.) To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things present; to be in a brown study.
  • (n.) To wonder.
  • (v. t.) To think on; to meditate on.
  • (v. t.) To wonder at.
  • (n.) Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study.
  • (n.) Wonder, or admiration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rather than his extensive musings on art and politics, Morris is perhaps better known for his wallpaper and fabric designs of the late Victorian period.
  • (2) But if you have less financial support, that difference does hit you.” “As a generation, I don’t think we take enough interest in what’s going on,” she muses.
  • (3) There’s something rather Churchillian about him,” mused one of David Davis’s admirers in a recent TV profile.
  • (4) I might play him at centre-forward next time,” Hodgson mused.
  • (5) Cotton's interview with Paloma Faith on Tuesday in which the singer plugged her latest recording and mused about royal memorabilia such as a diamond jubilee sick bag has attracted particular criticism.
  • (6) Chris – lassoed from a parallel universe where Tom Cruise gave Hollywood a swerve to focus on taking his guitar-alt-musings to open mic spots instead – looks on, coldly dissecting technique and cutting to seduction tips.
  • (7) When the narrative voice ventriloquises the metamorphosed Gregor to muse "Was he an animal if music could captivate him so?
  • (8) Asked about the status of his own job, the press secretary joked “I’m right here”, telling reporters, in a belligerent line that could have been uttered by his impersonator Melissa McCarthy: “You can keep taking your selfies.” The president was busy sowing confusion by trying a new passive-aggressive tone on Twitter , musing: “While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out.
  • (9) At first Sabry was just talking to his friends, posting idiosyncratic yarns or musings that gently push at social mores.
  • (10) With respect to the MUSE 11 antigen, positive incidence was found in 17 out of 26 pancreatic cancer patients (65%), and in 1 out of 13 chronic pancreatitis patients (8%).
  • (11) He muses that they may not have found the right approach.
  • (12) In the end it's maybe just cultural differences and an ability to align personal with corporate longer term goals," he muses.
  • (13) The cover art for the Cranberries' Bury the Hatchet (1999) was an evocation of paranoia – a giant eye bearing down on a crouching figure – that did neither band nor artist many favours; his image for Muse's Black Holes and Revelations (2006) amounted to a thin revival of his work for the Floyd that, if you were being generous, suggested a wry comment on that band's unconvincing attempts to revive the excesses of 1970s progressive rock.
  • (14) This article contains personal and professional musings on becoming and being an old woman.
  • (15) Twin muses of Liam Gallagher and Jimi Hendrix added up to louche tailoring, flower prints and urban staples like a swagger-tastic Gallagher parka.
  • (16) Mixed into that are musings on Darwin and the Catholic church, a tender reflection on the death of her dog Lolabelle, and more than a few corny jokes, delivered with her hypnotic, almost disbelieving pitch.
  • (17) But sadly, mainstream music culture has always thrived on competition, creating what the media always calls "catfights", says Kristin Hersh, now a solo artist, but in the 80s the frontwoman of the influential American band Throwing Muses.
  • (18) But then you might been seen as a separatist,” the presenter mused.
  • (19) And last week, he let his exasperation be known on Twitter – first taking aim at the Washington Post for quoting anonymous sources while musing about his future and then chastising NBC’s Today show for producing a political package from a tour he took of an embattled housing complex in Jacksonville, Florida, subsidized by the federal government.
  • (20) He mused: "It's a unique opportunity for a journalist to be in this environment.

Source


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
  • (n.) The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
  • (n.) That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Manometric studies with resting cells obtained by growth on each of these sulfur sources yielded net oxygen uptake for all substrates except sulfite and dithionate.
  • (2) This would disrupt and prevent Isis from maintaining stable and reliable sources of income.
  • (3) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
  • (4) Pokeweed mitogen-stimulated rat spleen cells were identified as a reliable source of rat burst-promoting activity (PBA), which permitted development of a reproducible assay for rat bone marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E).
  • (5) The direct monocyte source is not sufficient to insure the stability of this population.
  • (6) Four patients with acute brucellosis are described, none of whom had any connexion with farming or milk industry, the source of infection being different in each case.
  • (7) No correlation between volatile make up and geography was found, but the profiling procedures are shown to be of use in the forensic problem of relating samples to a common source.
  • (8) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
  • (9) Thirty-two strains of pectin-fermenting rumen bacteria were isolated from bovine rumen contents in a rumen fluid medium which contained pectin as the only added energy source.
  • (10) These spectra show marked differences between sources.
  • (11) This capacity is expressed during incubation of the bacteria with the substrate and needs a source of carbon and other energy metabolites.
  • (12) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
  • (13) A Monte Carlo simulation was performed to characterize the spatial and energy distribution of bremsstrahlung radiation from beta point sources important to radioimmunotherapy (RIT).
  • (14) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
  • (15) The antigenic composition of an extract of rat dust, as a source of aeroallergens for rat-sensitive individuals, has been investigated and compared to the antigenic composition of rat saliva and urine.
  • (16) Furthermore, the analyses indicated an important interplay between environmental sources and social factors in the determination of hand lead and blood lead levels in very young children.
  • (17) An accurate and reproducible method is described for generating a map of the cobalt sheet source from images of it made in multiple positions with the scintillation camera.
  • (18) Biosyntheses of TXA2 and PGI2 were carried out using arachidonic acid as a substrate and horse platelet and aorta microsomes as sources of TXA2 and PGI2 synthetases respectively.
  • (19) In certain cases, the effects of these substances are enhanced, in others, they are inhibited by compounds that were isolated from natural sources or prepared by chemical synthesis.
  • (20) Lysates of lymphoblastoid cells provided the antigen source which were visualized by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.

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