origin
/ˈoɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn/ noun B1- The beginning of something. · place of origin· trace the origin of something
- The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
- The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
- The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
- An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
- Ancestry.
Plural origins
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I said the origin of his fortune remained obscure.
“The thing is clear as day,” said he; “and you must have had a very confiding nature, as well as a good heart, not to have suspected the origin of the whole affair.”
I remember that as I picked them up, I observed the title of one of them, The Origin of Tree Worship, and it struck me that the fellow must be some poor bibliophile, who, either as a trade or as a hobby, was a collector of obscure volumes.
Now, Watson, let us make for Gelder & Co., of Stepney, the source and origin of the busts.
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