Word Finder - origins

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The beginning of something.

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The source of a river, information, goods, etc.

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The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.

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• zero vector

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The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.

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An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.

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(in the plural) Ancestry.

The origins of this method of color-printing are obscure.

The Teutonic tribes whose dim origins he records have in the course of centuries attained to world-wide dominion.

Its Arabic title is Kitab ul'Ibar, wa diwan el Mubtada wa'l Khabar, fi ayyamul`Arab wa'l`Ajam wa'l Berber; that is, "The Book of Examples and the Collection of Origins and Information respecting the History of the Arabs, Foreigners and Berbers."

No matter what they thought of his human origins, he was still the deity in charge of the underworld.

The fifth and sixth volumes of the Origins of Christianity (the Christian Church and Marcus Aurelius) show him reconciled with democracy, confident in the gradual ascent of man, aware that the greatest catastrophes do not really interrupt the sure if imperceptible progress of the world - reconciled also in some measure, if not with the truths, at least with the moral beauties of Catholicism, and with the remembrance of his pious youth.

As the sole living resident of the underworld with human origins, Gabriel was often reminded of how different he remained.

Origins of the modern world We reject utterly accusations of " Euro centrism " .

The origins of the Masonic and Rosicrucian movements lie with the medieval alchemists.

The sophists have other claims to consideration than their service to the development of logic. In the history of the origins of logic the sophistic age is simply the age of the free play of thought in which men were aware that in a sense anything can be debated and not yet aware of the sense in which all things cannot be so.

The Bible is studied like other works, its origins discovered and its place in comparative religion assigned.

In details also the conclusions of modern science are rejected, as for example the origin of man from lower species, and, in a different sphere, the conclusions of experts as to the origins of the Bible.

The phenomena of day and night, of sunshine and storm, and other aspects of nature, were invoked by different interpreters to explain the conceptions of the gods, their origins and their relations.

Tylor's classical treatise on Primitive Culture (1871), the study of the origins of religion has been pursued with the utmost zeal.

Again, origins attract the litterateur; he revels in describing the transition from the pre-religious to the religious era.

Like all problems of origins, the question is necessarily extremely obscure, and cannot be definitely settled by historical evidence.

Thus there were now in existence in England two sets of Baptists whose origins were quite distinct and who never had any real intercourse as churches.

The origins of these four plane co-ordinate systems may be collinear with the axis of the optical system; and the corresponding axes may be parallel.

It is readily seen that if the optical system be symmetrical, the origins of the co-ordinate systems collinear with the optical axis Object J Barrel shaped Cushion shaped Distorted image FIG.

They showed the blase modern reader that a world no less poetic, no less primitive than that of the Origins of Christianity exists, or still existed within living memory, on the north-western coast of France.

In prison he pursued the Vedic studies which had already given him a place in oriental scholarship. His elaborate paper on " The Orion, or Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas," read at the International Congress of Orientalists, London 1892 (published at Poona, 1893), was followed in 1903 by his " Arctic Home in the Vedas " - expounding a theory of extremely remote Aryan origins which has failed to secure the acceptance of other scholars.

Wynn listened, aware of the demon blood bond and its origins from the time-before-time.

She had no idea how to be a single mother in the real world, let alone in a world as unforgiving as the Immortal one.  She'd proven she couldn't raise Toby without a bottle of vodka permanently glued to her hand.  Rhyn had been exiled for his mixed origins, and she'd never been especially welcomed by anyone but Gabe and Toby.  If something happened to Rhyn or if she couldn't leave here … Panicking made her already surging hormones worse.  She felt nauseous.

In short, scientists have not yet fathomed the nature of consciousness, its origins, or its role in Nature.

Greek Historiography The course looks at the origins and development of history-writing in Greco-Roman antiquity.

The report also shows that some communities, notably African and those with mixed ethnic origins, significantly outperform the national averages for participation.

Continued use of Portuguese names on the coastline betrays the map's origins from the old nautical charts used by the early explorers.

No one knows the origins of their metal coat hangers.

Bamboo's style stretches far beyond its origins.

The origins of chili, or chili con carne, are, well, lost in the mists of time.

The two major types of diabetes are quite distinct in their origins.

The Basques are an ancient pre-Indo-European race and the origins of their language have baffled etymologists for centuries.

The author explains the ancient nature of the Lithuanian pagan faith and its mythology, which had its origins in the Upper Paleolithic period.

O sacrum convivium appears to have its origins as an instrumental fantasia and then to have been re-written as a vocal piece.

Like most of this community, his own forbears had origins in Latvia and Lithuania.

One such railroad is the Chasewater Railroad, which can trace its origins back to the very genesis of railroad preservation.

The only give away of his Irish origins from a glance is his ginger goatee.

It argues for a close interrelation between the mystery religions of the ancient world and the origins of Christianity.

The lyrics of the nursery rhyme The lyrics of this nursery rhyme are not based on origins dating back in history.

Aykley Heads House, Durham Aykley Heads is a rambling courtyard mansion of medieval origins on the edge of the City of Durham.

The fact that the radical, pro-independence milieu exists is enough to make it significant, no matter its origins.

They also remind us that the origins of 20th century militarism in Ireland lie in the 1912-14 period of Tory-led armed conspiracy.

Although increasingly multilingual, the Internet is still largely an English-language medium because of its origins in the United States.

The origins of Islamic mysticism can be traced back to the 8th century.

This system is directly analogous to the creation of fictitious genealogies whereby individuals trace their origins back to a prestigious and perhaps mythical past.

Having its origins in the 1890s, ski orienteering is a sport with long traditions.

The opening address was given by Mrs Lynn Allen who set out the objectives and explained the Canadian origins.

Pillar of the sky is her one excursion into prehistory so far which sets out to explore the origins of Stonehenge.

He was a wonderful, able and private man full of humanity who never forgot his humble origins in the classless Rhonda valley.

One can only imagine what purpose it serves to investigate the racial origins of the ex-wife of an accused terrorist.

First, some object on the basis that Christmas trees have pagan origins.