starter

See also: Starter

English

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Etymology

start +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)

Noun

starter (plural starters)

Someone who starts something.
a starter on a journey
1. The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag
2. (baseball) A starting pitcher.
Something that starts something.
It's small, but it's a good starter house.
1. An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine
2. A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp
3. A yeast culture used to start a fermentation process
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

Finnish: aloittaja (fi), käynnistäjä (fi)
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Maori: kaitīmata

person who starts a race

Finnish: lähettäjä (fi)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: starter (no) m

Nynorsk: startar m
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starting pitcher — see starting pitcher

something that starts

Finnish: käynnistys (fi), aloitus (fi) (act); käynnistin (device)
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electric motor that starts an internal-combustion engine

Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 起動機／起动机 (zh), 启动机 (qǐdòngjī), 啟動器／启动器, 启动器 (qǐdòngqì)
Czech: startér
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: käynnistysmoottori (fi), starttimoottori (fi), startti (fi)
French: starter (fr) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Anlasser (de) m, Starter (de) m
Greek: μίζα (el) f (míza)
Japanese: スターター (sutātā)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
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Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: startmotor m, starter (no) m

Nynorsk: startmotor m, startar m
Polish: rozrusznik m
Portuguese: partida (pt) f
Romanian: demaror (ro) n
Russian: ста́ртер (ru) m (stárter), стартёр (ru) m (startjór)
Spanish: estárter m, cebador (es) m (Argentina)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

device that initiates a fluorescent lamp

Finnish: sytytin (fi)
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yeast culture

Finnish: siemen (fi)
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first course of a meal

Catalan: please add this translation if you can
Czech: předkrm (cs)
Danish: forret (da) c
Dutch: voorgerecht (nl) n, voorafje (nl) n
Finnish: alkupala (fi)
French: hors d’œuvre (fr) m, entrée (fr) f
Georgian: წამომწყები (c̣amomc̣q̇ebi), თავი (ka) (tavi)
German: Vorspeise (de) f, Vorgericht n
Greek: ορεκτικό (el) n (orektikó)
Italian: antipasto (it) m
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Maori: kumamatanga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forrett m

Nynorsk: forrett m
Persian: اردور (fa) (ordovr), استارتر (estârter)
Portuguese: entradas (pt) f pl
Russian: пе́рвое блю́до n (pérvoje bljúdo)
Spanish: entrada (es) f, entrante (es) m
Swedish: förrätt (sv) c, entré (sv) c, entrérätt c

player that a team fields at the beginning of a game

Finnish: avauspelaaja
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Swedish: startspelare c

dog that rouses game

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References

“starter”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

Tarters, ratters, restart

Danish

Noun

starter c (singular definite starteren, plural indefinite startere)

starter

Inflection

Declension of starter

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	starter	starteren	startere	starterne
genitive	starters	starterens	starteres	starternes

Noun

starter c

(deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of start

Verb

starter

(deprecated template usage) present of starte

Dutch

Etymology

From starten +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈstɑr.tər/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: star‧ter

Noun

starter m (plural starters, diminutive startertje n)

starter, one who starts; in particular
1. first-time home buyer
2. start-up

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English starter.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /staʁ.tœʁ/

Noun

starter m (plural starters)

starter (person or device)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English start.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /staʁ.te/

Verb

starter

(Canada) Synonym of démarrer

Conjugation

Conjugation of starter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	starter
present participle or gerund¹	simple	startant /staʁ.tɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	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/
(simple tenses)	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
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English starter.

Noun

starter m (uncountable)

starter (sports; car engine)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Noun

starter m

indefinite plural of start

Etymology 2

From starte +‎ -er

Noun

starter m (definite singular starteren, indefinite plural startere, definite plural starterne)

a starter (person who gives a starting signal)
a starter (starter motor)

Synonyms

startmotor

Etymology 3

Verb

starter

present tense of starte

References

“starter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English starter.

Noun

starter m (Cyrillic spelling стартер)

A device that starts an engine or a machine.

Synonyms

anlaser

Swedish

Noun

starter

(deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of start

Anagrams

rastret, stretar

starter

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Translations

References

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Danish

Noun

Inflection

Noun

Verb

Dutch

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

Conjugation

Italian

Etymology

Noun

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Noun

Etymology 2

Noun

Synonyms

Etymology 3

Verb

See also

References

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Noun

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Swedish

Noun

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