originate
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.
to give origin or rise to; initiate; invent: to originate a better method.
Origin of originate
1synonym study For originate
Other words from originate
- o·rig·i·na·ble [uh-rij-uh-nuh-buhl], /əˈrɪdʒ ə nə bəl/, 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
- self-o·rig·i·na·tion, noun
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How to use originate in a sentence
Nor have scientists ever really understood how water originated there.
Water on the moon should be more accessible than we thought | Neel Patel | October 26, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewBack at the start of September, we analyzed search activity across our entire agency from August and found that 26% of total spend originated from unique search queries with only 1 impression.
Proactively building negative keyword lists in Google Ads is now more important than ever | Eliot Shiner | October 21, 2020 | Search Engine LandThat means we could potentially get samples from two different sites on Bennu—and it would be up to researchers on Earth to disentangle everything and figure out what originated from where.
A NASA spacecraft is about to scoop up some asteroid rubble | Neel Patel | October 14, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewLyons explains that glassblowing is an ancient art, and its technique and tools haven’t been changed much since it originated.
That is really originating from pure, fundamental research — going very deeply in the mechanisms of life.
Gene-editing tool CRISPR wins the chemistry Nobel | Tina Hesman Saey | October 7, 2020 | Science News
They were concerned about political meddling originating from Beijing that was bleeding into local governance and the rule of law.
While originating from cannabis sativa, like pot, it contains only a negligible amount of THC (the psychedelic chemical in weed).
Gloria Steinem, Time, 156, no. 15, p.20: Steinem disclaimed credit for originating the feminist expression.
It was a chart entitled “Combined Deposits to Young Accounts Originating from Rachel Mellon and Fred Baron.”
John Edwards Jury Deliberations Stretch into Day Six | Diane Dimond | May 24, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Pentagon intends to classify cyberattacks originating in another country as an act of war.
Recollective Analysis, or Analysis for the purpose of helping to learn by heart, is not an originating or manufacturing process.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)A ready mode of dissipating anxiety originating from such a cause must now appear obvious.
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae | Edward JennerIf no such power exist, the community are to blame for not originating such a power.
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John CunninghamTryphon was the cause of originating among the Cilicians a piratical confederacy.
The two survivors of the originating trio passed into this room together, and closed the door behind them.
With Edged Tools | Henry Seton Merriman
British Dictionary definitions for originate
/ (əˈrɪdʒɪˌneɪt) /
to come or bring into being
(intr) US and Canadian (of a bus, train, etc) to begin its journey at a specified point
Derived forms of originate
- origination, noun
- originator, noun
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