| 单词 | originate |
| 释义 | originate (once / 413 pages) 1v 2v Originate is a verb that means to start or create something. You can originate the idea of adding a fancy new coffee machine to your company's break room, and before long, your entire office could be happily drinking mocha lattes. Originate is the place or point at which any new thing or idea starts. It usually doesn't end there, though. A carpet that originates in Turkey can travel all the way to an apartment in New York. A rumor can originate during first period, but by lunchtime it will have made its way around the entire high school. WORD FAMILYoriginate: originated, originates, originating, origination, originative, originator+/origin: originate, origins/origination: originations/originator: originators USAGE EXAMPLESOf the salmon and steelhead that now return to spawn each year, experts say, about 70 to 90 percent originate in hatcheries. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) These albums, like “The Epic,” originated in a monthlong recording marathon five years ago. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) Geological Survey, the epicenter of the quake appeared to originate in the Spring Mountains. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1v come into existence; take on form or shape A new religious movement originated in that country Syn|Hypo|Hyper arise, develop, grow, rise, spring up, uprise develop be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest resurge rise again come forth, emergehappen or occur as a result of something come, followto be the product or result swell, well upcome up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) headtake its rise breakcome forth or begin from a state of latency become come into existence 2v bring into being 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper initiate, start initiate, lead up set in motion, start an event or prepare the way for setapply or start date back, date from, go backbelong to an earlier time ascendgo back in order of genealogical succession create, make make or cause to be or to become v begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc. The flight originates in Calcutta Hyper begin, start have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense |
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