Word Finder - provenance

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Place or source of origin.

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Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.

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The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.

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This spear is of Viking provenance.

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The history of ownership of a work of art

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The picture is of royal provenance.

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The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)

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The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)

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(of a person) Background; history; place of origin

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• ancestry

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To establish the provenance of something

The exact provenance of these cylinders is not known, but there is every reason to believe that they were found in Cyprus.

Edmund Naumann was the discoverer of these facts, and his attention was first drawn to them by learning that an edible sea-weed, which flourishes only in salt water, is called Asakusanon, from the place (Asakusa) of its original provenance, which now lies some 3 m.

Whatever view be taken of the provenance of Codex Vaticanus it is plain that its archetype had the Pauline epistles in a peculiar order which is only found in Egypt, and so far no one has been able to discover any non-Alexandrian writer who used the Neutral text.

Beyond the fact that it was found at Nippur during the fourth of the American expeditions, there does not appear to be any exact record of its provenance; and, in order to determine its date, it is necessary to rely on the external and internal evidence furnished by the tablet itself.

We cannot to-day determine the exact homes or provenance of these freebooters, who were a terror alike to the Frankish empire, to England and to Ireland and west Scotland, who only came into view when their ships anchored in some Christian harbour, and who were called now Normanni, now Dacii, now Danes, now Lochlannoch; which last, the Irish name for them, though etymologically " men of the lakes or bays," might as well be translated " Norsemen," seeing that Lochlann was the Irish for Norway.

At all events, extensive quotations from a Book of Enoch are found in the rabbinical literature of the middle ages, and the provenance of these has not yet been determined.

With but few exceptions the provenance of the individual sections may be said to have been finally determined by the labours of the critics, but even a cursory examination of their contents makes it evident that the sequence of events, which they now present, cannot be original, but is rather the outcome of a long process of revision, during which the text has suffered considerably from alterations, omissions, dislocations and additions.

Items with a known provenance excluding them from further scrutiny.

To enhance credibility, indicate the provenance of statistics.

In a world awash in information of dubious provenance, whom can you trust to tell you the truth?

If it be true, it falls in with the palaeographic indications and suggests an Alexandrian provenance.

But the peculiar way in which it enforces its morals in terms of the Platonic contrast between the spiritual and sensuous worlds, as archetype and temporal manifestation, suggests a special local type of theology which must be taken into account in fixing its provenance.

I will review the myGrid service-oriented architecture, and explain the kind of provenance support it provides to the scientist.

He left BGS in 2000 to form HM Research Associates in order to continue provenance research in sedimentary basins around the world.

To design a distributed cooperation protocol to generate provenance data in workflow enactment.

These run from 1673 to 1871 and are highly miscellaneous in content - and some of them of uncertain provenance.

The recordings of bells of different provenance given earlier all have identical nominals but show differences in pitch.

These mechanisms provide a way of establishing the provenance of any component, and indeed of transformations conducted on these components by others.

Report on provenance Research for the Period 1933-45 This institution also provides a list of works with incomplete provenance during the period 1933-1945.

For that reason, the majority are of uncertain provenance.

There are two sites which claim to provide a UK White Pages but they are of doubtful provenance and not to be recommended.

There is a general misconception that once an item passes through a public auction any questionable prior provenance would be erased.

The rest must now be reckoned to be of uncertain or unknown provenance.

It would also provide insights into potential transport paths (via grain size and sorting analyzes) and likely sediment provenance.

How can the consumer make choices about welfare provenance of the food they eat without it?

However, the issue has wider implications for all other regions that should not become obscured by the resolution's provenance.

The site is therefore, often assigned to an article that is sold, provenance unknown, to increase its value.

The allusions of early writers seem to point to Egypt, but their references are mostly to the first part, so that we must be careful how we argue from them as to the provenance of the book as a whole.

As with many antiques, if some type of provenance can be proven, the item can become more desirable to certain collectors.

The provenance of an antique, if documented, increases its value.

Provenance describes who the desk belonged to or some important event that involved the desk.

Research the seller first and make sure that you are happy about the provenance of the watch before proceeding.

A seller of a quality watch should keep all of the paper work and the buyer should ensure that they are happy about the provenance of the watch.

One of the main ones being that they are part of the Fossil company and the watch provenance is known.

The exact provenance of this object is not easily determinable.

Sues where Hittite remains pave beer discovered are shown thus - Boghaz Keul 1 after a name implies doubt as to real provenance of the remalrts or their llittite character.

There is ample material for purely comparative purposes and for an estimate both of the general fundamental ideas and of the artificially-developed secondary speculations; but for any scientific research it is necessary to observe the social, religious and historical conditions of the provenance and period of the evidence, and for this the material is often insufficient.