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Denominator

One who, or that which, gives a name; origin or source of a name.

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Divisor 76% connected

The number by which the dividend is divided.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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-or unknown · 78% connection

A noun suffix denoting an agent or doer; as in auditor, one who hears; donor, one who gives; obligor, elevator. It is correlative to -…

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A unknown · 78% connection

The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the sca…

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Antonomasia noun · 78% connection

The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majest…

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Appellative noun · 78% connection

A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…

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Authorship noun · 78% connection

Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.

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Baptize verb · 78% connection

To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name.

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Beginning noun · 78% connection

That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.

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Call verb · 78% connection

To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.

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Derivation noun · 78% connection

the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues); "he prefers shoes of Italian derivation"; "music of Turkish…

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Derive verb · 78% connection

To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from.

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Downward adjective · 78% connection

Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent.

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Emanate verb · 78% connection

To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate.

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Father noun · 78% connection

One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or o…

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Fontal adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive.

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Forename noun · 78% connection

A name that precedes the family name or surname; a first name.

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Fountain noun · 78% connection

The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source.

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Head noun · 78% connection

The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or t…

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Hence adverb · 78% connection

From this source or origin.

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