fountain vs provenance

fountain

noun
  • A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge). 

  • An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure. 

  • A natural source of water; a spring. 

  • A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn. 

  • A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it. 

  • A roundel barry wavy argent and azure. 

  • A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain. 

  • Anything that resembles a fountain in operation. 

  • The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue. 

  • A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into. 

  • A soda fountain. 

verb
  • To flow or gush as if from a fountain. 

provenance

noun
  • Place or source of origin. 

  • The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance) 

  • The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance) 

  • Background; history; place of origin 

  • The history of ownership of a work of art 

  • The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below. 

verb
  • To establish the provenance of something 

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