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
- 1920 - A practical medical 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
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing 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
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1. The less movable of the two points of attachment of a muscle, that which is attached to the more fixed part of the skeleton. 2. The starting point of a cranial or spinal nerve; the former have two origins: the ental, deep, or real o., the cellgroup in the brain or medulla, whence the fibers of the nerve begin, and the ectal, superficial, or apparent o., the point where the nerve emerges from the brain.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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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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