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Starting   /stˈɑrtɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Start  v. t.  
1.
To cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as, the hounds started a fox. "Upon malicious bravery dost thou come To start my quiet?" "Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar."
2.
To bring into being or into view; to originate; to invent. "Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start."
3.
To cause to move or act; to set going, running, or flowing; as, to start a railway train; to start a mill; to start a stream of water; to start a rumor; to start a business. "I was engaged in conversation upon a subject which the people love to start in discourse."
4.
To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate; as, to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel. "One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum."
5.
(Naut.) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask.


start  v. i.  (past & past part. started; pres. part. starting)  
1.
To leap; to jump. (Obs.)
2.
To move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act. "And maketh him out of his sleep to start." "I start as from some dreadful dream." "Keep your soul to the work when ready to start aside." "But if he start, It is the flesh of a corrupted heart."
3.
To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start in business. "At once they start, advancing in a line." "At intervals some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still."
4.
To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure.
To start after, to set out after; to follow; to pursue.
To start against, to act as a rival candidate against.
To start for, to be a candidate for, as an office.
To start up, to rise suddenly, as from a seat or couch; to come suddenly into notice or importance.


noun
Starting  n.  A. & n. from Start, v.
Starting bar (Steam Eng.), a hand lever for working the valves in starting an engine.
Starting hole, a loophole; evasion. (Obs.)
Starting point, the point from which motion begins, or from which anything starts.
Starting post, a post, stake, barrier, or place from which competitors in a race start, or begin the race.





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"Starting" Quotes from Famous Books



... vainly trying to make a friendly haven, bade his sailors undergird the ship with heavy cables, for the timbers seemed starting. Finally he suffered his craft to drive,—hoping at least to find some islet with a sandy shore where he ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... Starting again with renewed energy, they travelled onward through the mighty forest till sunset, when they approached the high ground which now runs along the northern boundary of Oxfordshire and of which Edgehill forms a portion. Though progress had been slow, for the road, although secure, was yet in so ...
— Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake
... this train of thought, she retraced her steps. But just as she was starting to join her other cousins, she unexpectedly descried, ahead of her, a pair of jade-coloured butterflies, of the size of a circular fan. Now they soared high, now they made a swoop down, in their flight against the breeze; ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... annual tenure. This was not indeed as yet the inferior magistracy itself, at least not in the sense which the republic associated with the magisterial position, inasmuch as the commissioners did not emanate from the choice of the community; but it doubtless became the starting-point for the institution of subordinate magistrates, which was afterwards developed in so ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen
... introduction there is, no doubt, some difficulty in starting a conversation. The weather, the newspaper, the last accident, the little dog, the bric-...-brac, the love of horses, etc., are good and unfailing resources, except that very few people have the readiness to remember this wealth of subjects at once. To recollect a thing apropos of the moment ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood


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