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Originate   /ərˈɪdʒənˌeɪt/   Listen
Originate

verb
(past & past part. originated; pres. part. originating)
1.
Come into existence; take on form or shape.  Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, rise, spring up, uprise.  "A love that sprang up from friendship" , "The idea for the book grew out of a short story" , "An interesting phenomenon uprose"
2.
Bring into being.  Synonyms: initiate, start.  "Start a foundation"
3.
Begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc..



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"Originate" Quotes from Famous Books



... up your spirits pretty well, considering," remarked Phil, dryly. Boys of eighteen are not apt to enjoy jokes which do not originate with themselves; ...
— Clover • Susan Coolidge
... that by the year 2000 exports of tropical timber originate from sustainably managed sources; to establish a fund to assist tropical timber producers in obtaining the resources necessary to reach ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... (fanatic) 504; castle-buildier, fanciful projector. V. imagine, fancy, conceive; idealize, realize; dream, dream of, dream up; "give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name" [Midsummer Night's Dream]. create, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate; improvise, strike out something new. set one's wits to work; strain one's invention, crack one's invention; rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains; excogitate[obs3]; brainstorm. give play, give the reins, give a loose ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
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— Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. • Coleridge, ed. Turnbull
... have frequently resulted from gambling here as elsewhere. Many of the duels in dark rooms originate in disputes at the gaming table. The combatants rush from play to an upper or adjoining room, and settle their difference with revolver-shots, ...
— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume I (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz


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