'START' definitions:
Definition of 'start'
From: WordNet
noun
The beginning of anything; "it was off to a good start"
noun
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, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset] [ant: end, ending, middle]
noun
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: start, starting]
noun
noun
The act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations" [syn: beginning, start, commencement] [ant: finish, finishing]
noun
A line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game [syn: start, starting line, scratch, scratch line]
noun
A signal to begin (as in a race); "the starting signal was a green light"; "the runners awaited the start" [syn: starting signal, start]
noun
The advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race); "with an hour's start he will be hard to catch" [syn: start, head start]
verb
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, start, set about, set out, commence] [ant: end, terminate]
verb
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, start, commence] [ant: end, terminate]
verb
Leave; "The family took off for Florida" [syn: depart, part, start, start out, set forth, set off, set out, take off]
verb
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, start] [ant: cease, end, finish, stop, terminate]
verb
Bring into being; "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation" [syn: originate, initiate, start]
verb
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, start up, embark on, commence]
verb
Move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room" [syn: startle, jump, start]
verb
Get going or set in motion; "We simply could not start the engine"; "start up the computer" [syn: start, start up] [ant: stop]
verb
Begin or set in motion; "I start at eight in the morning"; "Ready, set, go!" [syn: start, go, get going] [ant: halt, stop]
verb
Begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job; "Take up a position"; "start a new job" [syn: start, take up]
verb
Play in the starting lineup
verb
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 workout"; "The semester begins with a convocation ceremony" [syn: begin, start]
verb
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, start]
verb
Definition of 'START'
From: GCIDE
- START \START\ (st[aum]rt), n. [From Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.] A Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union which provided for stepwise reductions in the number of nuclear weapons possessed by each country. [PJC]
Definition of 'Start'
From: GCIDE
- Start \Start\ (st[aum]rt), 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. [1913 Webster]
- Upon malicious bravery dost thou come To start my quiet? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To bring into being or into view; to originate; to invent. [1913 Webster]
- Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- I was engaged in conversation upon a subject which the people love to start in discourse. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum. --Wiseman. [1913 Webster]
- 5. [Perh. from D. storten, which has this meaning also.] (Naut.) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Start'
From: GCIDE
- Start \Start\, n.
- 1. The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion. [1913 Webster]
- The fright awakened Arcite with a start. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort. [1913 Webster]
- For she did speak in starts distractedly. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or in a hurry. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A sudden, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy. [1913 Webster]
- To check the starts and sallies of the soul. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The beginning, as of a journey or a course of action; first motion from a place; act of setting out; the outset; -- opposed to finish. [1913 Webster]
- The start of first performance is all. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- At a start, at once; in an instant. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- At a start he was betwixt them two. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- To get the start, or To have the start, to begin before another; to gain or have the advantage in a similar undertaking; -- usually with of. "Get the start of the majestic world." --Shak. "She might have forsaken him if he had not got the start of her." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Start'
From: GCIDE
- Start \Start\, n. [OE. stert a tail, AS. steort; akin to LG. stert, steert, D. staart, G. sterz, Icel. stertr, Dan. stiert, Sw. stjert. [root]166. Cf. Stark naked, under Stark, Start, v. i.]
- 1. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 3. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Mining) The arm, or lever, of a gin, drawn around by a horse. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'start'
From: GCIDE
- start \start\ (st[aum]rt), v. i. [imp. & p. p. started; p. pr. & vb. n. starting.] [OE. sterten; akin to D. storten to hurl, rush, fall, G. st["u]rzen, OHG. sturzen to turn over, to fall, Sw. st["o]rta to cast down, to fall, Dan. styrte, and probably also to E. start a tail; the original sense being, perhaps, to show the tail, to tumble over suddenly. [root]166. Cf. Start a tail.]
- 1. To leap; to jump. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. To move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act. [1913 Webster]
- And maketh him out of his sleep to start. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- I start as from some dreadful dream. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Keep your soul to the work when ready to start aside. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- But if he start, It is the flesh of a corrupted heart. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start in business. [1913 Webster]
- At once they start, advancing in a line. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- At intervals some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'start'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'START'
- At a start,
- Startful,
- Startfulness,
- Starting,
- Startingly,
- To have the start,
- To start after,
- To start against,
- To start for,
- To start up,
- start out,
- start up,
- started,
- By fits and starts,
- Flying start,
- Start-up,
- Starting bar,
- Starting hole,
- Starting point,
- Starting post,
- To get the start,
- fits and starts,
- fresh start,
- from start to finish,
- get started,
- head start,
- housing start,
- kick start,
- racing start,
- running start,
- start from scratch,
- start-off,
- starting block,
- starting buffer,
- starting gate,
- starting handle,
- starting line,
- starting motor,
- starting pitcher,
- starting signal,
- starting stall,
- starting time,
- Jump-start,
- kick-start,
- re-start