Origin vs History - What's the difference?
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The beginning of something.
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
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(anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
(cartography) An arbitrary point on the earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
(in the plural) Ancestry.
The aggregate of past events.
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A record or narrative description of past events.
A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
(informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
Shared experience or interaction.
(obsolete) To narrate or record.
As nouns the difference between origin and history
is that origin is the beginning of something while history is the aggregate of past events.As a verb history is
to narrate or record.origin
English
Noun
(en noun)Sam Leith
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Synonyms
* (source) source * (mathematics) zero vectorAntonyms
* (source) destination * (anatomy) insertionSee also
* provenanceExternal links
* *history
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Alternative forms
* historie (obsolete) * hystory (nonstandard) * hystorie (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia history) (wikiversity history lecture)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
Race Finished, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
Lessons of past cast shadows over Syria, passage=History and experience act as a filter that can distort as much as elucidate. It is largely forgotten now, overlooked in the one-line description of Tony Blair and George W Bush as the men who lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, but there was a wider context to their conviction.}}
- There is too much history between them for them to split up now.
- He has had a lot of history with the police.
Synonyms
* (aggregate of past events) background, past * (record or narrative description of past events) account, chronicle, story, tale * medical history * logDerived terms
* alternate history * antihistory * antihistoricist, antihistoricism * art history * call history * case history * credit history * family history * herstory * historian * historic * historical * historically * historiography * history repeats itself * life history * local history * medical history * microhistory * natural history * oral history * postal history * prehistory * prehistorian * prehistoric * prosecution history * pseudohistoryVerb
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