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verb
(past & past part. started; pres. part. starting)
1.
Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action.  Synonyms: begin, commence, get, get down, set about, set out, start out.  "Who will start?" , "Get working as soon as the sun rises!" , "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia" , "He began early in the day" , "Let's get down to work now"
2.
Set in motion, cause to start.  Synonyms: begin, commence, lead off.  "The Iraqis began hostilities" , "Begin a new chapter in your life"
3.
Leave.  Synonyms: depart, part, set forth, set off, set out, start out, take off.
4.
Have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense.  Synonym: begin.  "The second movement begins after the Allegro" , "Prices for these homes start at $250,000"
5.
Bring into being.  Synonyms: initiate, originate.  "Start a foundation"
6.
Get off the ground.  Synonyms: commence, embark on, start up.  "We embarked on an exciting enterprise" , "I start my day with a good breakfast" , "We began the new semester" , "The afternoon session begins at 4 PM" , "The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack"
7.
Move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm.  Synonyms: jump, startle.
8.
Get going or set in motion.  Synonym: start up.  "Start up the computer"
9.
Begin or set in motion.  Synonyms: get going, go.  "Ready, set, go!"
10.
Begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job.  Synonym: take up.  "Start a new job"
11.
Play in the starting lineup.
12.
Have a beginning characterized in some specified way.  Synonym: begin.  "My property begins with the three maple trees" , "Her day begins with a workout" , "The semester begins with a convocation ceremony"
13.
Begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object.  Synonym: begin.  "She started the soup while it was still hot" , "We started physics in 10th grade"
14.
Bulge outward.  Synonyms: bug out, bulge, bulge out, come out, pop, pop out, protrude.
noun
1.
The beginning of anything.
2.
The time at which something is supposed to begin.  Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, starting time.  "She knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"
3.
A turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning).  Synonym: starting.  "His starting meant that the coach thought he was one of their best linemen"
4.
A sudden involuntary movement.  Synonyms: jump, startle.
5.
The act of starting something.  Synonyms: beginning, commencement.
6.
A line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game.  Synonyms: scratch, scratch line, starting line.
7.
A signal to begin (as in a race).  Synonym: starting signal.  "The runners awaited the start"
8.
The advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race).  Synonym: head start.



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"Start" Quotes from Famous Books



... what to do as I sat waiting him; and now that he had bidden me to speak, I told him the whole story from start to finish, beginning with Gilverthwaite and ending with Crone, and sparing no detail or explanation of my own conduct. He listened in silence, and with more intentness and watchfulness than I had ever seen a man show in my life, and now and then he nodded and sometimes smiled; ...
— Dead Men's Money • J. S. Fletcher
... novice called upon to participate in the exercises of a public banquet, an anniversary, or other entertainment, unless he has an experienced friend to give him a few hints or advice, is apt to be dismayed. He does not even know how to make a start in the work of preparation, and his sense of inability and fear of blundering go far to confuse and paralyze whatever native faculty he may have. A book like this comes to him at such a time as reinforcements ...
— Toasts - and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say - the Right Thing in the Right Way • William Pittenger
... been stuck in with burnt cork, and—the devil take my shaky hand! And that railroad business yesterday helps it along. A nice state of affairs for a chap of my age, I must say! Scared as a kid at an old wives' story. Borkins is a fool, and I'm an idiot.... Damn! there's a bit off my chin for a start. I hope to goodness no one takes it into their heads to pay me a ...
— The Riddle of the Frozen Flame • Mary E. Hanshew
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— The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing - A Manual of Ready Reference • Joseph Triemens
... own, I assure you. I have really no control over her, whatever. She does as she pleases, and is ruining her complexion by running and galloping out of doors the whole time. Not that she had much complexion to start with. The Churchills never had, you know."...Sara cast a complacent glance at her delicately tinted reflection in the mirror.... "I tried to make Betty wear a sunbonnet this summer, but I might as well have ...
— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery


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