Originate
verb
To start or begin something.
The idea originated from a casual conversation.
Often appears as...
- originate from
- originate in
verb
To come from a particular place, time or situation.
The tradition originates from ancient times.
Often appears as...
- originate from
- originate in
verb
To create or initiate a process or event in a computing context.
The request originates from the client device.
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- request originates
- originates from
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Technical
verb
To initiate a loan or investment.
The bank originated the mortgage loan.
Often appears as...
- originated loan
- originated mortgage
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Technical
verb
To start or begin something.
The idea originated from a casual conversation.
Often appears as...
- originate from
- originate in
verb
To come from a particular place, time or situation.
The tradition originates from ancient times.
Often appears as...
- originate from
- originate in
verb
To create or initiate a process or event in a computing context.
The request originates from the client device.
Often appears as...
- request originates
- originates from
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To initiate a loan or investment.
The bank originated the mortgage loan.
Often appears as...
- originated loan
- originated mortgage
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/2Starting Point
Use 'originate' to describe the starting point of ideas or movements.
His entrepreneurial spirit originated during his college years.
Pro Tip 2/2Abstract Beginnings
'Originate' is often used for non-physical beginnings, like concepts.
Democracy is thought to have originated in ancient Greece.
Pro Tip 1/2Starting Point
Use 'originate' to describe the starting point of ideas or movements.
His entrepreneurial spirit originated during his college years.
Pro Tip 2/2Abstract Beginnings
'Originate' is often used for non-physical beginnings, like concepts.
Democracy is thought to have originated in ancient Greece.
Pro Tip 1/2Starting Point
Use 'originate' to describe the starting point of ideas or movements.
His entrepreneurial spirit originated during his college years.
Pro Tip 2/2Abstract Beginnings
'Originate' is often used for non-physical beginnings, like concepts.
Democracy is thought to have originated in ancient Greece.
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Nationalism vs....
But you're saying, I think, that actually the bigger cause of job loss is not going to be that at all. It's going to originate in technological questions, and we have no chance of solving that unless we operate as a connected world. Yeah, I think that, I don't know about the present, but looking to the future,
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Encouraging curiosity-dri...
two weeks ago before I got a call from Chris I was studying metamorphosis and we discovered a physical object that is fundamentally important for developmental biology in flies that originates from a physics of cavitation of these bubbles that arrive so what you
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The scientific origins...
The connections between mythical stories and the geology of the regions where they originated teach us that mythology and science are actually two sides of the same coin. Both are rooted in explaining and understanding the world.
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Jewel of Namibia PIPE Nat...
inland and for millions of years that same current has also transported sand north along the Mabius coast for strong winds blow it inland that sand originated oddly enough from the Kalahari Desert deep in the interior of
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How does your immune...
also known as leukocytes, that originate in our bone marrow. These cells migrate into the bloodstream and the lymphatic system, a network of vessels which helps clear bodily toxins and waste. Our bodies are teeming with
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The hidden worlds within...
and used various dating techniques to pinpoint when it originated. Repeat that a million times over, and these plants, animals, minerals, fossils, and artifacts present windows into times and places around the world
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How your emotions change...
The heart may not originate our feelings, but it is highly responsive to them. In a sense, a record of our emotional life is written on our hearts. Fear and grief, for example, can cause profound cardiac injury.
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Why the universe seems...
If life has arisen only once on any -- life could originate once per planet, could be extremely common or it could originate once per star or once per galaxy or maybe only once in the entire universe,
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Calculating The Odds of...
Because if life originated twice within this one Solar System, it means it was easy, and given similar conditions elsewhere, life will happen. So the number two is a very important number here.
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What's Wrong with These...
These strange states probably originated as a defence. Predators react to movement. If their quarry plays dead, the killer instinct is suppressed
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Nationalism vs....
But you're saying, I think, that actually the bigger cause of job loss is not going to be that at all. It's going to originate in technological questions, and we have no chance of solving that unless we operate as a connected world. Yeah, I think that, I don't know about the present, but looking to the future,
Video examples
Encouraging curiosity-dri...
two weeks ago before I got a call from Chris I was studying metamorphosis and we discovered a physical object that is fundamentally important for developmental biology in flies that originates from a physics of cavitation of these bubbles that arrive so what you
Video examples
The scientific origins...
The connections between mythical stories and the geology of the regions where they originated teach us that mythology and science are actually two sides of the same coin. Both are rooted in explaining and understanding the world.
Video examples
Jewel of Namibia PIPE Nat...
inland and for millions of years that same current has also transported sand north along the Mabius coast for strong winds blow it inland that sand originated oddly enough from the Kalahari Desert deep in the interior of
Video examples
How does your immune...
also known as leukocytes, that originate in our bone marrow. These cells migrate into the bloodstream and the lymphatic system, a network of vessels which helps clear bodily toxins and waste. Our bodies are teeming with
Video examples
The hidden worlds within...
and used various dating techniques to pinpoint when it originated. Repeat that a million times over, and these plants, animals, minerals, fossils, and artifacts present windows into times and places around the world
Video examples
How your emotions change...
The heart may not originate our feelings, but it is highly responsive to them. In a sense, a record of our emotional life is written on our hearts. Fear and grief, for example, can cause profound cardiac injury.
Video examples
Why the universe seems...
If life has arisen only once on any -- life could originate once per planet, could be extremely common or it could originate once per star or once per galaxy or maybe only once in the entire universe,
Video examples
Calculating The Odds of...
Because if life originated twice within this one Solar System, it means it was easy, and given similar conditions elsewhere, life will happen. So the number two is a very important number here.
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What's Wrong with These...
These strange states probably originated as a defence. Predators react to movement. If their quarry plays dead, the killer instinct is suppressed
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
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Harriet Martineau
English Writer
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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Wayne Dyer
American Psychologist
The fact is that since you're a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect... and so are you!
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Nathan Myhrvold
American Businessman
Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
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Fritz Zwicky
Swiss Scientist
The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
German Scientist
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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Giambattista Vico
Italian Philosopher
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
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Will Durant
American Historian
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Idina Menzel
American Actress
I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.
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Euripides
Greek Poet
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
Quote examples
Harriet Martineau
English Writer
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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Wayne Dyer
American Psychologist
The fact is that since you're a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect... and so are you!
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Nathan Myhrvold
American Businessman
Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
Quote examples
Fritz Zwicky
Swiss Scientist
The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.
Quote examples
Georg C. Lichtenberg
German Scientist
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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Giambattista Vico
Italian Philosopher
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
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Will Durant
American Historian
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Idina Menzel
American Actress
I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.
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Euripides
Greek Poet
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
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