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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"  Antonym: end.
2.
Set in motion, cause to start.  Synonyms: begin, commence, lead off.  "The Iraqis began hostilities" , "Begin a new chapter in your life"  Antonym: end.
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"  Antonym: end.
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"  Antonym: stop.
9.
Begin or set in motion.  Synonyms: get going, go.  "Ready, set, go!"  Antonym: stop.
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"  Antonyms: end, middle.
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.  Antonym: finish.
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



... catch him; Shadow is too quick for him. And when Whitey has given up and flown away, Shadow will come back. He probably had found the tracks of Jumper the Hare and he will come back. I know him; he'll come back. Jumper is safe enough from him now, because he has such a long start, but Shadow will be sure to find one of my holes in the snow. Oh, dear! Oh, dear! What ...
— Whitefoot the Wood Mouse • Thornton W. Burgess
... feel weak in the knees at the bare thought of a picture-gallery, and as for antiquities, they make my flesh creep. Between you and myself, dear reader, I wouldn't give a sou-markee for all the old bones gathered up during the last eighteen centuries, unless to start a bone-mill and sell the ...
— The Land of Thor • J. Ross Browne
... When about to start one morning to a village at some distance, he gave, as it appeared, a strict charge to my sisters, Agatha and Lucy, to send me to school; but this they neglected to do until afternoon, and then, as the weather was rainy and unpleasant, ...
— The Junior Classics • Various
... that he had escaped with only part of himself, and rather wanted the rest; and as at that time the French navy was allowed a liberty which it has not now, the young officer laid a statement of the whole case before his commander. That daring personage thus recommended:—A French boat to start away for shore with this young officer, and several more in her; that it should touch near Bertha's house; that Bertha should receive the merest hint, and then take passage for the French ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II., November, 1858., No. XIII. • Various
... regret at the absence of the young bookseller. To vary the monotony of existence, to find if possible a husband for her daughter, Madame Boyer decided to leave Montpellier for Marseilles, and there start some kind of business. The daughter, who foresaw greater amusement and pleasure in the life of a large city, assented willingly. On October 6, 1876, they arrived at Marseilles, and soon after Madame bought at a price considerably higher than their value, two shops adjoining one ...
— A Book of Remarkable Criminals • H. B. Irving


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