start
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English stert, from the verb sterten (“to start, startle”). See below.
Noun[edit]
start (plural starts)
- The beginning of an activity.
- The movie was entertaining from start to finish.
- Shakespeare
- I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, / Straining upon the start.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
- He woke with a start.
- L'Estrange
- Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or in a hurry.
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- 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.
- A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
Translations[edit]
beginning of an activity
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sudden involuntary movement
beginning point of a race
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appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English sterten (“to leap up suddenly, rush out”), from Old English styrtan (“to leap up, start”), from Proto-Germanic *sturtijaną (“to startle, move, set in motion”), causative of *stirtaną (“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.
Verb[edit]
start (third-person singular simple present starts, present participle starting, simple past and past participle started)
- (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
- To set in motion.
- to start a stream of water; to start a rumour; to start a business
- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
- I was engaged in conversation upon a subject which the people love to start in discourse.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, The Mirror and the Lamp:
- In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
- To begin.
- 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
- Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
- 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
- To initiate operation of a vehicle or machine.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- Sir William Temple (1628–1699)
- Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start.
- Sir William Temple (1628–1699)
- To set in motion.
- (intransitive) To begin an activity.
- The rain started at 9:00.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ […].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
- To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
- (intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- But if he start, / It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.
- John Dryden (1631-1700)
- I start as from some dreadful dream.
- Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
- Keep your soul to the work when ready to start aside.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- (transitive) To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel
- Wiseman
- One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum.
- (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
- (Can we date this quote?) Mary Shelley
- I started from my sleep with horror […]
- (Can we date this quote?) Mary Shelley
- To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
- The hounds started a fox.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- Upon malicious bravery dost thou come / To start my quiet?
- (intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise.
- (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.
- 1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin 1985, p. 66:
- (nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- to start a water cask
Usage notes[edit]
- In uses 1.1 and 1.2 this is a catenative verb that takes the infinitive (to) or the gerund (-ing) form. There is no change in meaning.
- For more information, see Appendix:English catenative verbs
Antonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to set in motion
to begin
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to initiate operation of a vehicle or machine
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of an activity, to begin
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to jerk suddenly in surprise
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to awaken suddenly
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See also[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
start (plural starts)
- A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
- A handle, especially that of a plough.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Anagrams[edit]
Crimean Tatar[edit]
Noun[edit]
start
- start
Declension[edit]
declension of start
| nominative | start |
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| genitive | startnıñ |
| dative | startqa |
| accusative | startnı |
| locative | startta |
| ablative | starttan |
References[edit]
- В. А. Мiрєєв, С. М. Усеїнов (2002), Українсько-кримськотатарський словник, Simferopol: Dolya, ISBN 966-7980-89-8
Czech[edit]
Noun[edit]
start m
- start (beginning point of a race)
Related terms[edit]
See also[edit]
- cíl m
Danish[edit]
Noun[edit]
start c (singular definite starten, plural indefinite starter)
Inflection[edit]
Inflection of start
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | start | starten | starter | starterne |
| genitive | starts | startens | starters | starternes |
Verb[edit]
start
- Imperative of starte.
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
start m (plural starts, diminutive startje n)
Verb[edit]
start
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of starten
- imperative of starten
German[edit]
Verb[edit]
start
- Imperative singular of starten.
Polish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
start m
- (sports) start (the beginning of a race)
- (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)
- Z niecierpliwością czekałam na start samolotu do Paryża.
- 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.
- Większość kibiców ucieszyła się, że zdecydował się on na start w zawodach.
Declension[edit]
declension of start
Derived terms[edit]
- startować — verb to start
- startowy — adjective starting, take-off
- falstart (m) — noun false start
Swedish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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audio (file)
Noun[edit]
start c
Declension[edit]
Declension of start
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- start in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
start (definite accusative startı, plural startlar)
Antonyms[edit]
Declension[edit]
declension of start
possessive forms of start
Usage notes[edit]
As Turks are generally not easily spelling consonants at the beginning of a syllable, this word may often be spelled as IPA(key): [sɯtaɾt].
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