Definitions for originate
əˈrɪdʒ əˌneɪtorig·i·nate

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, growverb

   come into existence; take on form or shape

   "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose"

2. originate, initiate, startverb

   bring into being

   "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation"

3. originateverb

   begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc.

   "The flight originates in Calcutta"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. originateverb

   To cause to be, to bring into existence; to produce, initiate.

2. originateverb

   To come into existence; to have origin or beginning; to spring, be derived (from, with).

   The scheme originated with the governor and council.

3. Etymology: From (the participle stem of), from origo. Compare origin.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Originateverb

   To bring into existence.

   Etymology: from origin.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. originate

   To originate means to begin, initiate, arise, or start from somewhere or something. It denotes the starting point or source of an idea, action, concept, or physical entity.

Matched Categories

1. • Begin
   • Create

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'originate' in Verbs Frequency: #878

How to pronounce originate?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say originate in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of originate in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of originate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of originate in a Sentence

1. Tiffany Stevens:

   The issue is' what is considered of Russian origin ?' it can originate in Russia and is then cut and polished in India. Is it then considered an Indian diamond at that point ?

2. Harriet Martineau:

   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.

3. Jay Myers:

   Many people think that ‘Black Friday’ comes from the idea that it’s a highly profitable day for retailers, one where they’re getting ‘out of the red’ and ‘into the black,’ the term didn’t actually originate from retailers. Philadelphia police officers first used the term ‘Black Friday’ in the 1960s to describe the day after Thanksgiving, when a flurry of tourists came into the city to shop, causing traffic jams and accidents.

4. CLIFFORD VILLALON:

   Complexities of life originate from the curiousity of men about innovations. And from these innovations that brought new discoveries and inventions caused men's health to propagate complexity.

5. Saida Caballero-Nieves:

   There have been suggestions that these monsters result from the merger of less extreme stars in close binary systems, from what we know about the frequency of massive mergers, this scenario can’t account for all the really massive stars that we see in R136, so it would appear that such stars can originate from the star formation process.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=originate
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Originate
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=originate
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com