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{
"term": "originate",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "originate",
"heSheIt": "originates"
},
"pastSimple": "originated",
"pastParticiple": "originated",
"ingForm": "originating"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to happen or appear for the first time in a particular place or situation",
"sensetop": "(+ adv./prep.)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The disease is thought to have originated in the tropics."
},
{
"text": "The word originated as a marketing term."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to create something new",
"sensetop": "originate something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Locke originated this theory in the 17th century."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to start in a particular place",
"sensetop": "originate in…originate from/out of…originate at…originate from…",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "His flight originated in Japan.",
"contextForm": "originate in…"
},
{
"text": "Flights originating out of Toronto should reach Edmonton without much problem.",
"contextForm": "originate from/out of…"
},
{
"text": "28 trains now originate and terminate at Tambaram.",
"contextForm": "originate at…"
},
{
"text": "The call had originated from Jamaica/a cell phone.",
"contextForm": "originate from…"
}
],
"topics": ["Transport by air"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈrɪdʒɪneɪt/",
"audio": "or/originate/originate__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈrɪdʒɪneɪts/",
"audio": "or/originate/originates__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈrɪdʒɪneɪtɪd/",
"audio": "or/originate/originated__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈrɪdʒɪneɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "or/originate/originating__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈrɪdʒɪneɪt/",
"audio": "or/originate/originate__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈrɪdʒɪneɪts/",
"audio": "or/originate/originates__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈrɪdʒɪneɪtɪd/",
"audio": "or/originate/originated__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈrɪdʒɪneɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "or/originate/originating__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin originat- ‘caused to begin’, from Latin origo, origin- ‘source, origin’."
}