Prelude vs Origin - What's the difference?
prelude | origin | Related terms |
An introductory or preliminary performance or event; a preface.
(music) A short piece of music that acts as an introduction to a longer piece.
To introduce something, as a prelude.
To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.
* Sir Walter Scott
* Jeffrey
The beginning of something.
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
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, title= (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
(anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
(cartography) An arbitrary point on the earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
(in the plural) Ancestry.
As nouns the difference between prelude and origin
is that prelude is an introductory or preliminary performance or event; a preface while origin is the beginning of something.As a verb prelude
is to introduce something, as a prelude.prelude
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(prelud)- The musicians preluded on their instruments.
- We are preluding too largely, and must come at once to the point.
References
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Noun
(en noun)Sam Leith
Where the profound meets the profane, passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.}}