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Beginning   /bɪgˈɪnɪŋ/   Listen
Beginning

noun
1.
The event consisting of the start of something.  Antonym: ending.
2.
The time at which something is supposed to begin.  Synonyms: commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time.  "She knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"  Antonyms: end, middle.
3.
The first part or section of something.  Antonyms: end, middle.
4.
The place where something begins, where it springs into being.  Synonyms: origin, root, rootage, source.  "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation" , "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River" , "Communism's Russian root"
5.
The act of starting something.  Synonyms: commencement, start.  Antonym: finish.
adjective
1.
Serving to begin.  Synonym: first.  "The first verse"


Begin

verb
(past & past part. began, begun; pres. part. beginning)
1.
Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action.  Synonyms: commence, get, get down, set about, set out, start, 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"  Antonym: end.
2.
Have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense.  Synonym: start.  "The second movement begins after the Allegro" , "Prices for these homes start at $250,000"  Antonym: end.
3.
Set in motion, cause to start.  Synonyms: commence, lead off, start.  "The Iraqis began hostilities" , "Begin a new chapter in your life"  Antonym: end.
4.
Begin to speak or say.
5.
Be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series.  "A terrible murder begins the novel" , "The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester"
6.
Have a beginning, of a temporal event.  "The company's Asia tour begins next month"
7.
Have a beginning characterized in some specified way.  Synonym: start.  "My property begins with the three maple trees" , "Her day begins with a workout" , "The semester begins with a convocation ceremony"
8.
Begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object.  Synonym: start.  "She started the soup while it was still hot" , "We started physics in 10th grade"
9.
Achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative.  "You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war"
10.
Begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language.  "We started French in fourth grade"



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"Beginning" Quotes from Famous Books



... saved from small exertions. I have, therefore, bought a second-hand Paley for a shilling, and have cut out the chapter to which I especially want to call your attention. Will you kindly read it through from beginning ...
— The Fair Haven • Samuel Butler
... contemplated the use of a complete concrete lining except where large quantities of water were encountered; in which case the arches, beginning at a point 15 deg. above the springing line, were to be built of vitrified paving brick. By reference to Plate XII it will be seen that the water-proofing, which in the concrete-roof tunnels extended the full height of the sides to the 15 deg. line, was carried in the brick-roof ...
— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 • James H. Brace and Francis Mason
... issue of the larger question that divides Europe into armed camps. Were categoric proof sought of how small a part the quarrel between Vienna and Belgrade played in the larger tragedy, it can be found in the urgent insistence of the Russian Government itself in the very beginning of the diplomatic conversations that ...
— The Crime Against Europe - A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 • Roger Casement
... even then have been conveyed to the human mind in merely intellectual forms? Or, granting that it might, could it be so conveyed to those who were only beginning to have the vaguest, most error-mingled and confused notions about our Lord and what he came to do? No. The inward experiences of our Lord, such as could be conveyed to them at all, could be conveyed to them only in a parable. For far plainer things than these, our Lord chose ...
— Unspoken Sermons - Series I., II., and II. • George MacDonald
... only his earnest desire to see me again this evening. I fancy I can still hear him exclaim, with loving impetuosity, that he hated every day and every night which kept him from me. And now? Now? For another's sake he lets me wait for him in vain, and if his slave does not lie, this is only the beginning of his ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers


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