Footnote and Source

Footnote

Footnote noun - A printed note placed below the text on a printed page.

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Source and footnote are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Source" instead a noun "Footnote".

Nearby Words: footnoted, footnoting

Source noun - Something mentioned in a text as providing related and especially supporting information.

Usage example: the professor asked the students to have at least five different sources for their papers

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Footnote and source are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Footnote" instead a noun "Source".

For example, the Portuguese translation of Brave New World includes a footnote for every quoting or paraphrasing of William Shakespeare (usually by John the Savage) containing the source of the quote and the quote in its original form and language.

Source: Footnote Fever
BeOS, made by Apple alumnus Jean-Louis Gassée, is mostly a footnote although it was enormously advanced and lightning-fast, the dominance of Windows and incompetent management caused it to be discontinued in 2000 (though the open-source Haiku project is trying to fix that).

Source: Useful Notes / Computer Wars
A footnote mentions this a common name for the sidearm, and posits the name comes from how the suppressor, scope, and stock attached to the pistol◊ make it resemble the original Megatron, though it notes nobody has confirmed this as the source of the nickname.

Source: Literature / World War Z

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