start

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[edit] Etymology 1

Middle English stert

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start (plural starts)

  1. The beginning of an activity.
    The movie was entertaining from start to finish.
  2. A sudden involuntary movement.
    He woke with a start.
  3. The beginning point of a race.
  4. 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.
    • 2011 February 12, Ian Hughes, “Arsenal 2 - 0 Wolverhampton\”, BBC:
      Wilshere, who made his first start for England in the midweek friendly win over Denmark, raced into the penalty area and chose to cross rather than shoot - one of the very few poor selections he made in the match.
  5. Short for start button; see also Start.
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beginning of an activity
sudden involuntary movement
beginning point of a race
appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match
start button — see start button
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[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle English sterten (“to leap up suddenly, rush out”), from Old English styrtan (“to leap up, start”), from Proto-Germanic *sturtjanan (“to startle, move, set in motion”), causative of *stirtanan (“to leap, tumble”), from Proto-Indo-European *stere-, *strē- (“to be strong, steady, rigid, fixed”). Cognate with Old Frisian stirta (“to fall down, tumble”), Middle Dutch sterten (Dutch storten, “to rush, fall, collapse”), Old High German sturzen (German stürzen, “to hurl, plunge, turn upside down”), Old High German sterzan (“to be stiff, protrude”). More at stare.

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start (third-person singular simple present starts, present participle starting, simple past and past participle started)

  1. (transitive) To set in motion.
  2. (transitive) To begin.
  3. (transitive) To initiate a vehicle or machine.
  4. (transitive) To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
  5. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
    The rain started at 9:00.
  6. (intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise.
  7. (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Mary Shelley:
      I started from my sleep with horror […]
  8. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
    • 1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin 1985, p. 66:
      we could, with the greatest ease as well as clearness, see all objects (ourselves unseen) only by applying our eyes close to the crevice, where the moulding of a panel had warped or started a little on the other side.
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to set in motion
to begin
to initiate a vehicle or machine
to put or raise a question or objection, to put forward
of an activity, to begin
to jerk suddenly in surprise
to awaken suddenly
to break away, to come loose
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[edit] Noun

start

  1. start

[edit] Declension

    declension of start
nominative start
genitive startnıñ
dative startqa
accusative startnı
locative startta
ablative starttan

[edit] References

  • Useinov & Mireev Dictionary, Simferopol, Dolya, 2002 [1]

[edit] Czech

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start m.

  1. start (beginning point of a race)

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start c. (singular definite starten, plural indefinite starter)

  1. start

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    Inflection of start
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative start starten starter starterne
genitive starts startens starters starternes

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start

  1. imperative of starte

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start

  1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of starten.
  2. imperative of starten.

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start

  1. Imperative singular of starten.

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start m.

  1. (sports) start (the beginning of a race)
  2. (aviation) takeoff
    Z niecierpliwością czekałam na start samolotu do Paryża.
    I was impatiently waiting for the plane to Paris to take off. (=for its take-off)
  3. participation
    Większość kibiców ucieszyła się, że zdecydował się on na start w zawodach.
    Most fans were happy to hear that he had decided to take part in the competition.

[edit] Declension

    declension of start
singular plural
nominative start starty
genitive startu startów
dative startowi startom
accusative start starty
instrumental startem startami
locative starcie startach
vocative starcie starty

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start c.

  1. start; beginning (of a race)
  2. the act of turning (an engine) on

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Declension of start
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative start starten starter starterna
genitive starts startens starters starternas

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