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origin
English
Etymology
From Middle English origine, origyne, from Old French origine, orine, ourine, from Latin origo (“beginning, source, birth, origin”), from orior (“to rise”); see orient. Doublet of origo.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???.?.d??n/, /???.?.d??n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???.?.d??n/, /???.d??n/
- (NYC) IPA(key): /???.?.d??n/
Noun
origin (plural origins)
- The beginning of something.
- The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture I:
- It is clear that the origin of the truth would be an admirable criterion of this sort, if only the various origins could be discriminated from one another from this point of view, and the history of dogmatic opinion shows that origin has always been a favorite test. Origin in immediate intuition; origin in pontifical authority; origin in supernatural revelation, as by vision, hearing, or unaccountable impression; origin in direct possession by a higher spirit, expressing itself in prophecy and warning; origin in automatic utterance generally,—these origins have been stock warrants for the truth of one opinion after another which we find represented in religious history.
- Synonym: source
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture I:
- (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
- Synonym: zero vector
- (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
- (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
- (in the plural) Ancestry.
Synonyms
- (beginning): See Thesaurus:beginning
Antonyms
- (beginning): end
- (source): destination
- (anatomy): insertion
Derived terms
Related terms
- orient
Translations
See also
- provenance
Further reading
- origin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- origin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- nigori
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background
English
Etymology
back +? ground
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bæk.??a?nd/
Adjective
background (not comparable)
- Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.
Antonyms
- conspicuous, foreground, forestanding, primary, prominent
Noun
background (countable and uncountable, plural backgrounds)
- One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.
- A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
- Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
- A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
- (computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
- (computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
background (third-person singular simple present backgrounds, present participle backgrounding, simple past and past participle backgrounded)
- To put in a position that is not prominent.
- 2006, Paul Baker, Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis, page 163:
- One aspect of the story that appears interesting is that the alleged rapist and victim are only referred to by name together in the same sentence once. In all the other sentences, one receives more focus, while the other is backgrounded.
- 2006, Paul Baker, Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis, page 163:
- (journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
Spanish
Noun
background m (plural backgrounds)
- background
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