noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ethnic origin/background (= the race or country that someone originally came from )
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Schools are increasingly composed of pupils of different religions and different ethnic origins.
humble background/origins etc
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Iacocca rose from humble beginnings to become boss of Ford.
sb’s/sth’s country of origin (= where you were born or live permanently, or where something was produced )
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Please give your name, age, and country of origin.
sb’s/sth’s place of origin formal (= the place where someone or something first came from )
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I believe my mother's place of origin was Sierra Leone.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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In this third example, however, the question has a different origin .
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It is therefore already apparent that the suggested different origins of the glasses can be linked with their different chemical compositions.
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The balance of Maxwell's group was rather different , with origins in printing and in magazine and trade publishing.
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This is how you realise they have different origins .
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Butler herself had rather different origins .
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Rivalries thus developed within the administration among officials of different places of origin .
ethnic
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More lists, long computer analyses of each individual - background, ethnic origins , age, record, previous political activities.
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I suspect that removing the information about ethnic origin would only postpone the discrimination to the interview stage.
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The present population of Britain also includes approximately 2.4 million people of minority ethnic origin .
human
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The search for human origins in the material record, by the techniques of archaeology, could begin.
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In the next generation after Thales, Anaximander extended scientific myth to include human origins .
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The debate over human origins in nineteenth-century Britain provides a helpful example.
humble
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Sid was always fond of reminding his audience of darts' humble origins .
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In the case of plumes, the evidence for how they look comes from humble origins .
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As a prime minister he probably ranked with Ramsay MacDonald in humble origin and modest wealth.
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A man of humble origins with little formal education, Mr Bérégovoy had always taken pride in his reputation for integrity.
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Dentists have a humble origin , in that they are part of the history of jewellery.
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The list is bottomless, no doubt, but what about his humble origins ?
national
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Slightly larger objects, however different and unrelated, should be grouped so that they have something in common like colour or national origin .
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The Bakke decision permitted the use of race or national origin as a factor in college admissions.
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The national origin of the agents of media control is not the point.
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They frequently discriminate on the basis of race, religion or national origin .
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But whatever the parentage, this new decentralized way admits to no national origin nor exclusive use by anyone.
racial
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If the answer is yes, should it be a family similar to the child's racial and cultural origin ?
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People are immensely flexible in their habits, depending on their racial origin , religion, wealth, and ecology.
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Then there are those families who emphasise differences by their awareness of the racial origin of the child.
recent
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But these bodies are of comparatively recent origin .
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What about physical understandings of more recent origin ?
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Are the rather variable and unpredictable patterns of kin support, which I identified in chapter 1, of recent origin ?
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In its present form this story is of recent origin , although it is derived from an ancient tale.
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The concept of aggression, however, is of relatively recent origin .
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Some have been around a long time, others are of more recent origins .
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Like much political folk wisdom, this particular belief is of recent origin .
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Bright rays have not yet been darkened by these means and thus represent ejecta from craters of relatively recent origin .
social
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The grammar school paid little or no formal attention to the social origins of their pupils, and parents paid no fees.
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After all, morality is social in origin .
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This does not, however, render the question of social origins of state personnel, such as bureaucrats, sterile.
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The most comprehensive in terms of social class origins covers the period from 1820 to 1968.
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But what, I ask myself, are its social and biological origins ?
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The social origins of the new administrators have interested historians.
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Some modern sample-based studies have successfully explored the relations between social origins , attitudes and behaviour.
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The social origin of its members, the initial preponderance of intelligentsia over workers, was utterly irrelevant.
unknown
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We found that 20 of the estimates originated from six source studies, with one being of unknown origin .
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With the exception of computed tomography most radiological investigations can not identify the primary tumour in metastatic disease of unknown origin .
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Gorich etal found the primary site by computed tomography in 58% of 31 patients with metastatic disease of unknown origin .
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Since metastases of unknown origins are usually poorly differentiated the sensitivity of testing with these antibodies would also be reduced.
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Products of unknown origin I am surprised at just how many products show no manufacturer's address.
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Some patients with metastasis of unknown origin do have responsive tumours.
■ VERB
explain
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What needs to be explained is the origin of concentrations of wealth and security or of poverty and deprivation.
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The myth, told in a giant earth figure called the Fisherman, explains the origin of the Colorado River.
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Chapter 6 compares efforts to explain the origins , characteristics, and impact of non-violent political dissent and social movement activity.
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She also explained the origin of the castle.
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She'd explained to me the origin of the Paisley pattern.
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The approach is usually genetic: if you can explain the origin of something, you have explained its current nature as well.
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The family name, Beurze, explains the origins of the name for similar operations all over the Continent.
owe
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Population genetics owes its origin to Francis Galton, who put the study of human heredity on a mathematical footing.
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The glass in the regolith owes its origin to impacts of cometary and asteroidal material with the lunar surface.
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The second kind of modern atheism owes its origins to Feuerbach and its most powerful expression to Marx.
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Such effects owe their origin to gradients in the field and are called tidal effects.
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As to length, there are two traditional ways of measuring and both owe their origins to tiger shooting.
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The group, he said, owed its origins to direct action by environmentalists in Britain.
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Nevertheless, it is appropriate to consider here those components of karst topography that owe much of their origin to weathering processes.
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It is quite possible that the Wandjina figures owe their origin to external influence.
suggest
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This suggests a monophyletic origin for Trichogramma parthenogenesis bacteria.
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All the phenomena to be described under the section Complex Partial Seizures strongly suggest a temporal lobe origin .
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It is therefore already apparent that the suggested different origins of the glasses can be linked with their different chemical compositions.
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The natural color of the clay communicates its earthy source and the smoky black tones on the surface suggest an ancient origin .
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Some elements of the event may be thought to suggest a very ancient origin .
trace
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Their analysis traces the political origins and impact of social movement activity in terms of the protection of individual rights of citizenship.
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If today such spending amounts to roughly two-thirds of all economic activity, we can trace its origin back to the 1920s.
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The present system of bargaining and control is therefore best understood by tracing its origins and developments.
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Cellular technology is not a new concept; some authorities have traced its origins to 1947.
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This makes tracing the origin a difficult matter.
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Many trace the origin of this crisis to the 1993 advent of free agency, which has sent salaries skyrocketing.
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They are a very old family and trace their origins back right through the centuries.
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In raising such questions, the intention is to lay warnings about tracing the origins of voluntary collectivism in selected traditions.
understand
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None the less, they are worth considering, because they help us to understand both the origin and the artificiality of feudalism.
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With these techniques the woman can understand the origin of her problem and may sometimes be able to resolve it.
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To understand the origin of species we need to know what these frontiers are and how they arise.
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Seeking to understand our origins and our destiny.
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We simply do not understand the origin of this hugely variable relation between injury and pain.
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The present system of bargaining and control is therefore best understood by tracing its origins and developments.
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He could hear the fear in their voices and understood its origin .
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It is important to understand the nature and origin of blocks and resistances.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Advanced computer systems could trace the origin of every gun used in a violent crime.
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AIDS became widespread in the 1980s, but no-one is certain of its origin .
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Federal law requires that every product should show its country of origin .
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He's writing a dictionary that explains the origin of words.
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Hughes's book 'The Fatal Shore' is a study of the origins of Australia as a British penal colony.
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Kennedy's Irish-Catholic origins
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Nine percent of the city's population is of Hispanic origin .
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The magazines were organized by country of origin .
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Today's ceremony is a modern version of a tradition which has its origins in medieval times.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But I want to know my origins, my beginnings.
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Could it be that one far-off day intelligent computers will speculate about their own lost origins?
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Indeed, the schemata of adulthood have their origins in the schemata of early childhood.
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Moreover, much of the growing industrial labour force was not of urban origin .
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Others have been acquired from other sources, although the exact origins of some of these remain somewhat obscure.
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Regardless of its origins, the tarbush in its heyday once was favored by king and countryman alike.
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Simple yet sophisticated, this dish has its origins in Rome.