Synonyms: extraction, origin, descent
Definition: properties attributable to your ancestry
Usage: he comes from good origins
Similar words: filiation, lineage, derivation, ancestry
Definition: inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
Synonyms: origin
Definition: the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
Similar words: intersection
Definition: a point or set of points common to two or more geometric configurations
Synonyms: origin, origination, inception
Definition: an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
Similar words: beginning
Definition: the event consisting of the start of something
Usage: the beginning of the war
Synonyms: pedigree, parentage, origin, blood, blood line, bloodline, ancestry, line, line of descent, lineage, descent, stemma, stock
Definition: the descendants of one individual
Usage: his entire lineage has been warriors
Similar words: family tree, genealogy
Definition: successive generations of kin
Synonyms: root, rootage, source, beginning, origin
Definition: the place where something begins, where it springs into being
Usage: the Italian beginning of the Renaissance; Jupiter was the origin of the radiation; Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River; communism's Russian root
Similar words: point
Definition: the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
Usage: she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street
Synonyms: origin
Definition: the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived
Usage: the rumor had its origin in idle gossip; vegetable origins; mineral origin; origin in sensation
Similar words: source
Definition: (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system
Usage: a heat source; a source of carbon dioxide