The Collaborative International Dictionary
Originate \O*rig"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Originated; p. pr. & vb. n. Originating.] [From Origin.] To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.
A decomposition of the whole civil and political mass,
for the purpose of originating a new civil order.
--Burke.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of originate English)
Usage examples of "originating".
These days, who has time to concern themselves with an oracle of death originating from some ancient Central American civilization?
I can't just contact the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and tell them that I located hydraulic sounds originating a mile below the Campeche shelf.
About three years ago, I used the system to detect vibrations originating from beneath the Gulf floor that sounded exactly like a sea quake.
Iz leans overboard, stupefied by the surreal visibility created by the incandescent beacon originating somewhere along the seafloor, some two thousand feet beneath the boat.
The report details unidentifiable sounds originating from beneath the seafloor within the Chicxulub impact crater.
Unfortunately, the acting NOAA director was a little slow getting around to verifying the information, but we've now confirmed the high-pitched acoustics are originating from directly within this buried ovoid structure.
A myriad of scorched tentaclelike conduits originating from beneath the platform feed into the enclosed, smoked-glass object like a thousand alien intravenous tubes.
Somehow the mysterious array, originating from within the Kukulcan pyramid, had managed to jam the firing mechanisms, preventing the drones from exploding.
The display froze, halfway between signals, showing only the originating codes.
The same originating code, in the IG's office, but repeated four times.
That's how emergency calls went out: sublight to the transfer point, which launched the pod, and the pod carried only a standard message, plus its originating transfer code.
F'lar might argue that his innovations breached no fundamental Weyr precepts, but the five Old-time Weyrs categorically dismissed every suggestion originating from Benden Weyr.
The same originating code, in the IG’s office, but repeated four times.
That’s how emergency calls went out: sublight to the transfer point, which launched the pod, and the pod carried only a standard message, plus its originating transfer code.
Partly because of the Thek arrival and conference, the LPC had permitted more chatter on the circuits than usual, and Sass had already found it hard to tag each transmission with the correct originating code, as required.