| 单词 | origin |
| 释义 | origin /awr"i jin, or"-/, n. 1. something from which anything arises or is derived; source; fountainhead: to follow a stream to its origin. 2. rise or derivation from a particular source: the origin of a word. 3. the first stage of existence; beginning: the origin of Quakerism in America. 4. ancestry; parentage; extraction: to be of Scottish origin. 5. Anat. a. the point of derivation. b. the more fixed portion of a muscle. 6. Math. a. the point in a Cartesian coordinate system where the axes intersect. b. Also called pole. the point from which rays designating specific angles originate in a polar coordinate system with no axes. [1350-1400; ME < L origin- (s. of origo) beginning, source, lineage, deriv. of oriri to rise; cf. ORIENT] Syn. 1. root, foundation. 4. birth, lineage, descent. Ant. 1. destination, end. |
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