Dictionary Definition
start
Noun
1 the beginning of anything; "it was off to a
good start"
2 the time at which something is supposed to
begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he
was the man for her" [syn: beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, kickoff, starting
time, showtime,
offset] [ant: middle, end]
3 a turn to be a starter (in a game at the
beginning); "he got his start because one of the regular pitchers
was in the hospital"; "his starting meant that the coach thought he
was one of their best linemen" [syn: starting]
5 the act of starting something; "he was
responsible for the beginning of negotiations" [syn: beginning, commencement] [ant:
finish]
6 a line indicating the location of the start of
a race or a game [syn: starting
line]
7 a signal to begin (as in a race); "the starting
signal was a green light"; "the runners awaited the start" [syn:
starting
signal]
8 advantage gained by an early start as in a
race; "with an hour's start he will be hard to catch" [syn:
head
start]
Verb
1 take the first step or steps in carrying out an
action; "We began working at dawn"; "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" [syn: get down,
begin, get, start out,
set
about, set out, commence] [ant: end]
2 set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S.
started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities";
"begin a new chapter in your life" [syn: begin, lead off,
commence] [ant:
end]
3 leave; "The family took off for Florida" [syn:
depart, part, start out,
set
forth, set off, set out, take off]
4 have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or
evaluative sense; "The DMZ begins right over the hill"; "The second
movement begins after the Allegro"; "Prices for these homes start
at $250,000" [syn: begin]
[ant: end]
6 get off the ground; "Who started this
company?"; "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" [syn: start up,
embark
on, commence]
7 move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or
alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room" [syn: startle, jump]
8 get going or set in motion; "We simply could
not start the engine"; "start up the computer" [syn: start up] [ant:
stop]
9 begin or set in motion; "I start at eight in
the morning"; "Ready, set, go!" [syn: go, get going]
[ant: stop]
10 begin work or acting in a certain capacity,
office or job; "Take up a position"; "start a new job" [syn:
take
up]
11 play in the starting line-up
12 have a beginning characterized in some
specified way; "The novel begins with a murder"; "My property
begins with the three maple trees"; "Her day begins with a
work-out"; "The semester begins with a convocation ceremony" [syn:
begin]
13 begin an event that is implied and limited by
the nature or inherent function of the direct object; "begin a
cigar"; "She started the soup while it was still hot"; "We started
physics in 10th grade" [syn: begin]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
-
- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)t
Noun
- The beginning of
an activity.
- The movie was entertaining from start to finish.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
- He woke with a start.
- The beginning point of a race.
- An appearance in
a sports game from the beginning of the match.
- Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.
Translations
beginning of an activity
sudden involuntary movement
beginning point of a race
starting point
- Serbian: polazište
appearance in a sports game from the beginning
of the match
Verb
Derived terms
Translations
to set in motion
to begin
to initiate a vehicle or machine
to begin an activity
- Finnish: alkaa, aloittaa, käynnistyä (of motors)
- German: beginnen
- Hebrew: ,
- Japanese: 始まる
- Kurdish:
- Polish: zacząć, rozpocząć
- Russian: начинаться (načinát's'a) , начаться (načát's'a) , стартовать (startovát') and
- Serbian: početi, započeti
- Swedish: börja
to jerk suddenly in surprise
to awaken suddenly
- Japanese: 飛び起きる
- Serbian: odjednom
- ttbc Catalan: començar
- ttbc Chinese: 開始/开始
- ttbc Dutch: starten, beginnen, aanvangen
- ttbc French: commencer, débuter and also initier, entamer
- ttbc German: starten (at a race), anfangen, zusammenzucken
- ttbc Ido: komencar
- ttbc Italian: cominciare
- ttbc Polish: zacząć, rozpocząć
- ttbc Portuguese: começar
- ttbc Romanian: tresări, porni, începe
- ttbc Romansch: entschaiver, cumanzar, iniziar
- ttbc Swedish: starta, börja
- ttbc Telugu: మొదలుపెట్టు (modalupeTTu), ప్రారంభించు (praaraMbhiMchu)
- ttbc Vietnamese: Bắt đầu
See also
Anagrams
Crimean Tatar
Noun
start- start
Declension
References
Useinov-Mireev 2002}}Czech
Noun
Extensive Definition
Start can refer to multiple topics:
- Takeoff, the phase of flight where an aircraft transitions from moving along the ground to flying through the air
- Start signal, in telecommunications
- Start date, in filmmaking
- Start Button and Start Menu, elements in the Windows GUI
- Start, Louisiana, a town
- I.K. Start, a Norwegian football club from the town of Kristiansand
- Start (newspaper), a daily tabloid published in Serbia
- START I, strategic arms reduction treaty
- Starting lineup in sports
- START-1, a Russian launch vehicle
- Simple triage and rapid treatment
- Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak, a nuclear fusion experiment
- START natural language system, SynTactic Analysis using Reversible Transformations
- Start (cereal), Popular breakfast cereal produced by Kelloggs since 1980s. (UK Mainly)
- START Windows DOS commandline command.
In music:
- theSTART, an American punk rock band
- "Start!", a song by The Jam
- "Start" (song), a single by Korean singer Bada
- Start (album), an album by Stefanie Sun
See also
- Starting line, disambiguation page
- Start Point, disambiguation page
- Start-up, disambiguation page
start in German: Start
start in French: Start
start in Japanese: スタート
start in Polish: Start
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
A, activate, advance, advantage, aid, allowance, alpha, arise, assistance, attack, avoid, backing, base, basis, be off, be startled,
beat, beget, begin, beginning, beginnings, birth, blanch, blast away, blast off,
blast-off, blench,
blink, bob, boggle, bolt, border line, bounce, bound, boundary, boundary condition,
boundary line, bourn,
break, break boundary,
break open, break up, breakoff point, bring before, bring forward,
bring up, broach,
buck, buckjump, bulge, bundle, bundle off, burst, capriole, carry away, ceiling, chance, chase, circumscription,
clear, coign of vantage,
come apart, come off, come undone, come unstuck, come up, commence, commencement, commend to
attention, compass,
confine, constitute, course, crack, crack up, create, creation, cringe, crop up, curvet, cutoff, cutoff point, cutting
edge, dart, dawn, dawning, deadline, deadwood, delimitation, depart, determinant, develop, disintegrate, dive in, dive
into, division line, dodge, dog, draw, draw back, drive, drop, duck, edge, embark, embark on, emerge, emergence, encouragement, end, enter, enter on, enter upon,
establish, establishment, evade, extremity, fade, falcon, fall back, fall off, fall
to, fall to pieces, father, fight shy, financing, finish, fissure, flick, flinch, flip, flirt, float, floor, flounce, flush, fly apart, flying start,
follow the hounds, found,
foundation, founding, fowl, fracture, fresh start, frontier, genesis, get busy, get going,
get loose, get off, get to, get under way, get with it, give a
start, give away, give birth to, give way, go, go ahead, go forth, go hunting,
go to it, go to pieces, gun,
handicap, hang back,
hawk, head into, head
start, hedge, help, high-water mark, hippety-hop,
hit the road, hitch,
hop, hop to it, hound, hunt, hunt down, hurdle, inaugurate, inauguration, inception, initiate, initiation, inside track,
institute, institution, interface, introduce, issue, issue forth, jack, jacklight, jar, jerk, jib, jig, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jump, jump a mile, jump off, jump
over, jump to it, jump-off, kick off, kick-off, launch, launch into, lay before,
lead, leading edge,
leap, leap over, leapfrog, leave, light into, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor,
line, line of demarcation,
line of departure, low-water mark, lower limit, make a motion,
march, mark, mete, moot, move, negotiate, new departure,
odds, offer a resolution,
oncoming, onset, open, open up, opening, opportunity, organize, origin, originate, origination, outbreak, outset, outsetting, outstart, overjump, overleap, overskip, panic, peel off, pitch in, pitch
into, pluck, plunge into,
point of departure, port of embarkation, pose, postulate, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon,
prefer, proceed, propose, proposition, propound, protrude, prowl after, pull
back, put forth, put forward, put in motion, put it to, quail, recoil, recommend, reel back, retreat, ride to hounds,
rise, run, running start, rupture, sail into, sally, sally forth, send, send forth, send off,
send-off, set about, set afloat, set agoing, set at, set before,
set forth, set forward, set going, set in, set in motion, set off,
set on foot, set out, set sail, set to, set to work, set up,
setoff, setout, setting in motion,
setting-up, sheer off, shikar, shock, shoot, shrink, shrink back, shy, sidestep, skedaddle, ski jump, skip, snap, snatch, something extra,
something in reserve, split, sponsorship, sport, spring, spring a leak, spring
apart, square one, squinch, stalk, stampede, start aside, start
back, start going, start in, start off, start out, start up,
start-off, starting,
starting gate, starting line, starting place, starting point,
starting post, startle,
steeplechase, stick
out, still-hunt, strike out, submit, sudden pull, suggest, swerve, switch on, tackle, take off, take on, take
up, take-off, takeoff,
target date, term, terminal
date, terminus,
threshold, time
allotment, track, trail, turn, turn aside, turn on, turn to,
tweak, twitch, undertake, unravel, updive, upleap, upper hand, upper limit,
upspring, vantage, vantage ground, vantage
point, vault, wade into,
weasel, weasel out, whip
hand, wince, wrench, yank, yerk