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originate

[uh-rij-uh-neyt]

verb (used without object)

to take its origin or rise; begin; start; arise: The practice originated during the Middle Ages.

(of a train, bus, or other public conveyance) to begin a scheduled run at a specified place: This train originates at Philadelphia.

verb (used with object)

to give origin or rise to; initiate; invent: to originate a better method.

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Origin:
1645–55; probably back formation from origination (< F) < Latin orīginātiō etymology; see origin, -ate¹, ion

Related forms

o·rig·i·na·ble

[uh-rij-uh-nuh-buhl] , adjective

o·rig·i·na·tion, noun

o·rig·i·na·tor, noun

self-o·rig·i·nat·ed, adjective

self-o·rig·i·nat·ing, adjective

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self-o·rig·i·na·tion, noun

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Synonyms
3. See discover.

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Example Sentences

Little wonder that about a half of all home loans now originate through a mortgage broker.

Some programs even originate through students' projects.

UB is often neglected, but some good things originate in that cold wasteland.

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Little wonder that about a half of all home loans now originate through a mortgage broker.

Some programs even originate through students' projects.

UB is often neglected, but some good things originate in that cold wasteland.

They all originate from a single species, the wolf, but modern breeds display a wide diversity of traits.

There are researchers who argue that dreams originate as early as in the mother's.

The fruit didn't originate here, but the region produces more and probably better figs than almost anywhere else.

CF are permitted to employ appropriate force, whether or not hostile fires originate from within a protected structure.

Such shortcomings as the shows may have originate with the artists themselves, and not with their sponsors.

And some of those pressures originate right on campus.

They would handle the applications, approve and originate the loan, and hold that loan on their books until it was paid off.

The forces originate in the solar interior, he added, where the sun's rotation twists the magnetic field.

These landslides either originate in submarine canyons or on the continental slope.

The scientists did not even consider where a vast majority of contaminants originate from which is run-off and ocean dumping.

Astronomers think the jets originate from a disk of gas and dust around a young star's equator.

Gliomas are not a specific type of cancer but are a term used to describe tumors that originate in glial cells.

Sometimes these distributions have special names that originate with a unique population.

Free speech and creative new ideas originate strongly in the cultural.

Humans and chimps originate from a common ancestor, and scientists believe they diverged some six million years ago.

To what degree these and other differences originate in biology must be determined by research, not fatwa.

The short duration suggests the gamma rays originate in a relatively small part of the inner nebula.

The video game responds to signals that originate in the player's neurons rather than a joystick.

Most snowclones originate as references to popular culture.

Plants by contrast are where the antimicrobials originate.

These violently roiling columns of air originate from parent thunderstorms called supercells.

Fields did not make one discovery that revolutionized the field, nor did he originate the genetics-based approach to virology.

Could someone explain to me what morals are and where do they originate.

Wildfires are usually preventable because many originate from human error.

Which makes me wonder from where your demographics originate.

But the new model of heart disease shows that the vast majority of heart attacks do not originate with.

The trip ideas originate in the projects, first and foremost.

These cells originate in the bone marrow and wind up in the brain, where their job is to fight off infections.

Vann, with his traditional military background, did not originate these concepts.

They originate from one specific point in time from a specific group.

Surprisingly, photosynthesis did not originate in plants and algae, but arose first in bacteria.

All blood cells originate as a special kind of stem cell in the bone marrow.

Any packets not confirmed to originate as specified would then be dropped.

Aerosols are solid or liquid particles suspended in the air that originate from both natural processes and human activity.

Goldhagen did not originate the theory of collective ethnic guilt.

To that end, preliminary results hint that they might originate from stem cells in the heart, he reports.

More than three-quarters of all emerging infectious diseases originate when microbes jump from wildlife to humans.

All the cells that make up an individual originate from the same fertilized egg and share the same genome.

Those fires originate only in part from a lack of regular cleaning.

Nerve cells are modified epithelial cells, organs do not originate from these cells.

Nor do all the path-blazing dishes served at parties originate in home kitchens.

The entangled particles must originate from a single particle.

Their responsibility is to originate and close the loans, and then sell them to the agency, which services them.

Asteroids are rocks that originate in the inner solar system.

The answer: all the ads down through the decades that link those beers to the sites from which they originate.

The body carries out the tasks that originate in the mind/brain complex.

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World English Dictionary

originate (əˈrɪdʒɪˌneɪt)

—vb
1.	to come or bring into being
2.	(US), (Canadian) (intr) (of a bus, train, etc) to begin its journey at a specified point

origi'nation

—n

o'riginator

—n

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Word Origin & History

originate

1653, probably a back-formation of origination (1647), from M.Fr. origination, from L. originationem (nom. originatio), from originem (see original). In first ref. it meant "to trace the origin of;" meaning "to bring into existence" is from 1657; intrans. sense of "to come

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into existence" is from 1775.

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Medical Dictionary

originate o·rig·i·nate (ə-rĭj'ə-nāt')
v. o·rig·i·nat·ed, o·rig·i·nat·ing, o·rig·i·nates

To bring into being; create.
To come into being; start.

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