starter
See also: Starter
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Noun
starter (plural starters)
- Someone who starts, or who starts something.
- 1982, Hugh Stephenson, Claret and Chips: The Rise of the SDP (page 158)
- The most charitable view taken of them by their colleagues was that, as late starters on the journey away from their Labour past, they had not fully understood that the SDP intended to be something new and not just a Mark II Labour Party […]
- The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
- (baseball) A starting pitcher.
- (golf) A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
- 1982, Hugh Stephenson, Claret and Chips: The Rise of the SDP (page 158)
- Something that starts something.
- An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.
- A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp.
- A yeast culture used to start a fermentation process.
- Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
- It's small, but it's a good starter house.
- The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
- Synonyms: entrée, hors d'oeuvre, appetizer
- Coordinate terms: main, main course, dessert
- (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
- A dog that rouses game.
- (historical, British) A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
- (rail transport) A railway signal controlling the starting of trains from a station or some other location, more fully called a starter signal or starting signal.
- 1961 March, “The new Glasgow Central signalbox”, in Trains Illustrated, page 179:
- The colour-light signals admitting directly to the platforms and the inner starters (for short-length departures well up the platforms) are two-aspect, while those immediately beyond them are three-aspect, but elsewhere four-aspect signals have been installed in association with route indicators.
Derived terms
Terms derived from starter
Translations
someone who starts something
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person who starts a race
starting pitcher — see starting pitcher
something that starts
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electric motor that starts an internal-combustion engine
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device that initiates a fluorescent lamp
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yeast culture
first course of a meal
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player that a team fields at the beginning of a game
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dog that rouses game
References
- “starter”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
Danish
Noun
starter c (singular definite starteren, plural indefinite startere)
Inflection
Declension of starter
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | starter | starteren | startere | starterne |
genitive | starters | starterens | starteres | starternes |
Noun
starter c
Verb
starter
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
starter m (plural starters, diminutive startertje n)
French
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English starter.
Pronunciation
Noun
starter m (plural starters)
- starter (person or device)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
starter
Conjugation
Conjugation of starter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | starter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | startant /staʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | starté /staʁ.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | starte /staʁt/ |
startes /staʁt/ |
starte /staʁt/ |
startons /staʁ.tɔ̃/ |
startez /staʁ.te/ |
startent /staʁt/ |
imperfect | startais /staʁ.tɛ/ |
startais /staʁ.tɛ/ |
startait /staʁ.tɛ/ |
startions /staʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
startiez /staʁ.tje/ |
startaient /staʁ.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | startai /staʁ.te/ |
startas /staʁ.ta/ |
starta /staʁ.ta/ |
startâmes /staʁ.tam/ |
startâtes /staʁ.tat/ |
startèrent /staʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
future | starterai /staʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
starteras /staʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
startera /staʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
starterons /staʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
starterez /staʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
starteront /staʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | starterais /staʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
starterais /staʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
starterait /staʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
starterions /staʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
starteriez /staʁ.tə.ʁje/ |
starteraient /staʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | starte /staʁt/ |
startes /staʁt/ |
starte /staʁt/ |
startions /staʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
startiez /staʁ.tje/ |
startent /staʁt/ |
imperfect2 | startasse /staʁ.tas/ |
startasses /staʁ.tas/ |
startât /staʁ.ta/ |
startassions /staʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
startassiez /staʁ.ta.sje/ |
startassent /staʁ.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | starte /staʁt/ |
— | startons /staʁ.tɔ̃/ |
startez /staʁ.te/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
- “starter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English starter.
Noun
starter m (invariable)
- starter (sports; car engine)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Noun
starter m
Etymology 2
Noun
starter m (definite singular starteren, indefinite plural startere, definite plural starterne)
Synonyms
Etymology 3
Verb
starter
See also
- startar (Nynorsk)
References
- “starter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
starter n (plural starteri)
Declension
Declension of starter
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) starter | starterul | (niște) starteri | starterile |
genitive/dative | (unui) starter | starterului | (unor) starteri | starterilor |
vocative | starterule | starterilor |
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from English starter.
Noun
starter m (Cyrillic spelling стартер)
Synonyms
Swedish
Noun
starter
Anagrams
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