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3. introduction, initiation, reception, receiving, welcome, welcoming, briefing; preparation, preliminaries, initial instructions or directions, propaedeutics; familiarization, training, accustoming, breaking in, Inf showing [s.o.] around or the ropes. orifice, n. opening, hole, vent, outlet, venthole; window, hatch, hatchway, scuttle, Naut. booby hatch, gate, door, portal, Naut. scupper; drain, exhaust, spout, tap; gap, space, breach, break, check, leak, cleft, slot, slit, sissure, cranny, fissure, gash, rime, rift, crevice; mine, tunnel, cave, shaft, pit, hollow, cavity, cavern; entrance, inlet, passage, gat; aperture, ostiole, foraman, Anat., Zool. fenestra, spiracle, blowhole, Zool. alveolus; interstice, areola, pore, stoma, Anat. sinus; puncture, perforation, peephole, buttonhole, pinhole, eye, eyelet; bore, caliber; gape, yawn, lacuna, mouth, oral opening or cavity, embouchure, mouth-hole, Sl. yap, Sl. trap, Sl. bazoo. origin, n. 1. source, provenience, provenance; root, taproot, Bot. radicle, Bot. radix, etiology, derivation, etymon; fountainhead, fount, fountain, head, wellspring, well, spring, rise; base, basis, foundation, fundamental, rudiment, ground.
2. beginning, genesis, alpha, prime, dawn, dawning; incipience, inception, commencement, start, outset, the word “go”; germ, seed, conception, germination, embryo; budding, sprouting, emergence, first flowering, Both Embryol. primordium, aulage; matrix, womb, cradle, hotbed.
3. birth, nativity, parentage; ancestry, extraction, stock, stem, stirps, lineage, line, descent, pedigree, genealogy; family, house; breed, race. original, adj. 1. primary, primordial, primigenial, incipient, prime, initial, .first, firsthand; primeval, primal, primitive, pristine, earliest; aboriginal, autochthonal, autochthonous, indigenous, endemic, endemi-cal, native; radical, basic, fundamental, elemental, underlying, underived; intrinsic, inherent, inborn, innate, connate, congenital.
2. novel, new, newfangled, unprecedented, unknown, unheard-of; fresh, young, maiden, virgin, untried; unique, singular, special; rare, peculiar, uncommon, signal, extraordinary, different, unusual, out of the ordinary, Latin, sui generis.
3. creative, seminal, imaginative, ingenious, inventive, resourceful, originative, initiative, institutive; individualistic, independent, self-reliant, self-sufficient, self-contained, autonomous; diverse, divergent, unorthodox, unconventional, nonconforming, unimita-tive, unimitating, unimitated, borrowed, unborrowing.
4. prototypal, prototypic, prototypical, protoplastic; archetypal, archetypic, archetypical, exemplary; genuine, authentic, Archaic, authentical, actual, real, true. -n. 5. prototype, pattern, archetype, model, exemplar, type, form, mold; ideal, paragon, standard; example, specimen, sample; ancestor, precursor, precedent.
6. creation, ingenuity, breath of fresh air; protoplast, first copy.
7. source, origin, genesis, root, Both Bot. radix, radicle; subject, referent, actuality, the genuine article, the real thing, Sl. the real McCoy.
8. creator, neoteric; originator, mastermind; individualist, independent, eccentric, oddity, Inf. character; freethinker, bohemian, noncomformist, nonpartisan, dissenter, heretic. originality, n. 1. creativity, creativeness, imagination, imaginativeness, ingenuity, ingeniousness, inventiveness, resourcefulness, initiative; individuality, independence, self-reliance, self-sufficience, autonomy; divergence, nonimitativeness, unorthodoxy, unconventionality, nonconformity, break with tradition.