Synonym: beginning, birth, derivation, inception, infancy, parentage, root, source, start. Antonym: result. Similar words: originally, frigid, dig in, digital, eligible, right, all right, trigger. Meaning: ['ɑrɪdʒɪn ,'ɔ- /'ɒr-] 
n. 1. the place where something begins, where it springs into being 2. properties attributable to your ancestry 3. an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events 4. the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero 5. the descendants of one individual.
n. 1. the place where something begins, where it springs into being 2. properties attributable to your ancestry 3. an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events 4. the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero 5. the descendants of one individual. 
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151. They frequently discriminate on the basis of race, religion or national origin.
152. The Bakke decision permitted the use of race or national origin as a factor in college admissions.
153. Long before spacecraft missions first explored the Moon, speculation on the origin of the lunar craters abounded.
154. Place the cursor on the word origin in the first paragraph.
155. Comparison of the Orbiter and Lauder data permits a detailed portrait of the origin and evolution of a giant dust storm.
156. For example, the origin of ivory can be identified by its strontium isotopic composition, which reflects the diet of the elephant.
157. All the phenomena to be described under the section Complex Partial Seizures strongly suggest a temporal lobe origin.
158. Moreover, much of the growing industrial labour force was not of urban origin.
159. The natural color of the clay communicates its earthy source and the smoky black tones on the surface suggest an ancient origin.
160. All indexed, described, places of origin, dates, histories, interesting facts ....
161. As albinism is of genetic origin, genetic counselling should be available to teenagers.
162. The fact is that an externalized conflict with a psychopathic origin can be confused all too easily with a genuinely external one.
163. Other chemical sediments are also characterized by their chemical composition in relation to origin.
164. To me these faces have the appearance of contentment, agrarian in origin.
165. We believe that human beings have a divine origin and an eternal destiny.
166. The introduction of the scheme guarantees irrespective of actual earnings, so becomes the origin of the budget constraint.
167. One and a half aeons is about the time that elapsed between the origin of the Earth and the first bacteria-like fossils.
168. Thus the case for a common origin was greatly strengthened.
169. Henceforth this system provided the framework for his preoccupation with the problems of the extinction and origin of species.
170. The connection between ancient houses and mysteries of a shameful kind has its origin in Gothic romance.
171. None the less, they are worth considering, because they help us to understand both the origin and the artificiality of feudalism.
172. A careful history may give a clue as to the origin.
173. The Court declined to confine the term to persons of Romany origin.
174. The mystery was the origin of the large quantities of daub.
175. He told her of the disease, of its origin,(www.Sentencedict.com) of the blind foolishness that had freed it.
176. But whatever the parentage, this new decentralized way admits to no national origin nor exclusive use by anyone.
177. Surprisingly, the origin of these two distinct types of stomach is unknown.
178. There is considerable dispute about the origin of the turkey.
179. It was small but typically eighteenth-century in origin, with an Adam doorway and spider web fanlight.
180. The doctrine of the origin of domestic races from several aboriginal stocks was once carried to absurd extremes.
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