onset

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 Verb 1.4 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

\On"set`\

[edit] Noun

onset (plural onsets)

1. 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.

2. (medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
3. (phonology) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
4. (acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.
5. (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.

6. (obsolete) Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage.

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[edit] Verb

to onset (third-person singular simple present onsets, present participle onsetting, simple past and past participle onset)

1. (obsolete) To assault; to set upon.
2. (obsolete) To set about; to begin.

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of enost
• notes
• set on
• SONET
• steno
• stone
• tones