What's the difference between source and whence?

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.

Whence


Definition:

  • (adv.) From what place; hence, from what or which source, origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how; -- used interrogatively.
  • (adv.) From what or which place, source, material, cause, etc.; the place, source, etc., from which; -- used relatively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During the rest of life the destructive process predominates, whence a physiological osteopenia, which affects man as well as woman, but which accelerates in the latter during the postmenopausal years.
  • (2) Physiologic therapy demands the return of this fluid to the plasma volume from whence it arose.
  • (3) These results suggest that MCMV does not infect early embryos and that infection first occurs in the placenta of postimplantation embryos, whence it extends through the blood cells to the endothelial and mesodermal cells of different embryonic regions, eventually extending to the neuroectoderm.
  • (4) The earliest atoxyl induced changes in the cochlea appeared in the upper and medial parts of the 4th coil, whence the changes spread progressively downwards towards the round window, the extent of the changes depending on the amount of atoxyl administered and the duration of the treatment.
  • (5) Just as both teams looked content with a point, Dean Moxey sent Gayle down the inside-left channel from whence he cut inside Fabien Delph and curled his right-footed shot into the far top corner.
  • (6) These loud orthographic markers, in turn, echo the profound divide that separates the Afghans' traditional society from the liberal markets from whence secondhand cars make their journey across continents, sometimes complete with dangerously loaded but misunderstood ornamental accessories.
  • (7) Leaving aside the question of from whence these so-called "good citizens" will be sourced, how they will be trained to deal with complex child-neglect cases, and what they would be paid (workfare, jobcentre, sod all, probs), I confess that the idea of Ofsted having its own secret breakfast police in the form of a milk-monitoring Stasi snooper squad does not fill me with reassurance.
  • (8) Villa continued to compete with spirit and no little skill, playing with good width, and the game was in the balance until the 73rd minute, when Shelvey's cross from the right enabled Pablo Hernández to step inside two would-be tacklers before rifling a shot back whence it came, into Guzan's left-hand corner.
  • (9) Whence, the sequence of permeabilities for the two types of potassium channels is: PK greater than PRb greater than PNH4 greater than PNa = PCS.
  • (10) Money was the key instrument, with the leaders pledging millions for the transit countries, the international aid agencies, and up to €1bn (£730m) for Turkey, home to up to 2 million Syrian refugees and whence, via Greece, most people are moving to the EU.
  • (11) The findings suggest that the abnormal material arises in the pericorneal conjunctival connective tissue from whence it diffuses into, and deposits in, the superficial corneal stroma.
  • (12) This was Arabicized, by pre-Islamic Arabs trading in silk with China, as Kimiya, whence arose Al-Kimiya and finally Al-chemy.
  • (13) This transplant is constructed and modeled in accordance with its intended use, around the preselected vascular pedicle, whence the term prefabricated.
  • (14) Our results are not conclusive, but do suggest that kallikrein is located in these granules whence it is secreted into the lumen of the duct.2.
  • (15) REMOVING ONE OF THE KNIVES IN HIS BACK AND RETURNING IT FROM WHENCE IT CAME It's been a whole day since Manchester United became the first professional football club in All History to sack its manager.
  • (16) caused either by rupture of myofibres, whence the abjunctional stump lost its contact with the neuromuscular junction on the adjunctional stump, or by necrosis of the segment of the ruptured myofibre lying underneath the neuromuscular junction.
  • (17) Under the Norwegian novice, Cardiff have taken only eight points from his first 13 matches and – six points adrift of a safe position with five games left – they are set for an early return whence they came, after their promotion as champions last season.
  • (18) It’s taken by Beardsley and half-cleared to the edge of the box, where Gascoigne hooks the bouncing ball back whence it came with his left foot.
  • (19) Most of the blood products transfused into these hemophiliacs were imported from abroad, whence the source of HTLV-III infection presumably originated.
  • (20) Best biographies of 2012 Read more She was born in 1930 in Tuamgraney, County Clare, to parents from backgrounds so different that she wrote: “I sometimes attribute my two conflicting selves to my contrasting grandparents, the one a lady, the other a peasant.” Her mother – from a poor family that had crossed from the west of Ireland – had worked in America, whence gifts and visitors would occasionally arrive.