onset
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\On"set`\
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onset (plural onsets)
- A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.
- (A date for this quote is being sought): William Shakespeare,
- The onset and retire Of both your armies.
- (A date for this quote is being sought): William Wordsworth,
- Who on that day the word of onset gave.
- (A date for this quote is being sought): William Shakespeare,
- (medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
- (phonology) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
- (acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.
- (obsolete) A setting about; a beginning.
- (A date for this quote is being sought): Francis Bacon,
- There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
- (A date for this quote is being sought): Francis Bacon,
- (obsolete) Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
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to onset (third-person singular simple present onsets, present participle onsetting, simple past and past participle onset)