ORIGIN
\ˈɒɹɪd͡ʒˌɪn], \ˈɒɹɪdʒˌɪn], \ˈɒ_ɹ_ɪ_dʒ_ˌɪ_n]\
Definitions of ORIGIN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
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That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
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The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; - in contradistinction to insertion.
By Oddity Software
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The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
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That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
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The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; - in contradistinction to insertion.
By Noah Webster.
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The beginning of anything; birth; parentage; source; cause; as, the origin of the trouble; derivation; as, the word is of Latin origin.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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The rising or first existence of anything: that from which anything first proceeds: cause: derivation.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The more fixed end of a muscle. The central (deep o.) origin of a nerve; also (superficial o.) the point of its emergence from the center.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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