The difference between Beginning and Origin

When used as nouns, beginning means the act of doing that which begins anything, whereas origin means the beginning of something.

Beginning is also adjective with the meaning: of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.

check bellow for the other definitions of Beginning and Origin

  1. Beginning as a noun (uncountable):

    The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.

  2. Beginning as a noun:

    That which is begun; a rudiment or element.

  3. Beginning as a noun:

    That which begins or originates something; the first cause.

  4. Beginning as a noun:

    The initial portion of some extended thing.

    Examples:

    "The author describes the main character's youth at the beginning of the story."

    "That house is at the beginning of the street."

  1. Beginning as a verb:

    Examples:

    "He is beginning to read a new book."

  1. Beginning as an adjective (informal):

    Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.

    Examples:

    "in the beginning paragraph of the chapter"

    "in the beginning section of the course"

  1. Origin as a noun:

    The beginning of something.

  2. Origin as a noun:

    The source of a river, information, goods, etc.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: source"

  3. Origin as a noun (mathematics):

    The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: zero vector"

  4. Origin as a noun (anatomy):

    The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.

  5. Origin as a noun (cartography):

    An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.

  6. Origin as a noun (in the plural):

    Ancestry.

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