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Origin vs Engendering - What's the difference?

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Origin is a related term of engendering.


As nouns the difference between origin and engendering

is that origin is the beginning of something while engendering is the act by which something is engendered.

As a verb engendering 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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    engendering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is engendered.
  • * Harold Bloom, Wallace Stevens
    • On the one hand, it contains three implied narratives of each of the three divine engenderings .