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Origin vs Begetting - What's the difference?

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Origin is a related term of begetting.


As nouns the difference between origin and begetting

is that origin is the beginning of something while begetting is the act or product of one who begets.

As a verb begetting is

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origin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The beginning of something.
  • The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
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  • (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (source) source * (mathematics) zero vector

    Antonyms

    * (source) destination * (anatomy) insertion

    Related terms

    * orient * original * originate * originator * origination

    See also

    * provenance

    External links

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    begetting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or product of one who begets.
  • * 2007 , John Peterman, On Ancient Philosophy
    • The gods' begettings in the Theogony are reminiscent of the biblical human begettings in the Old Testament and emphasize their being in nature, unlike the Judaic God outside of it.