start

noun starts · sta't · staht

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, a board game, etc. Captured pieces are returned to the start of the board.
4. An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event. Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.
5. A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later. You generally see nursery starts at garden centres in mid to late spring. Small annual plants are generally sold in four-packs or larger packs, with each cell holding a single young plant.
6. An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start. to get, or have, the start
7. UK, archaic, slang A happening or proceeding. “It's a rum start, old John Madingley's coming down to Tunnleton,” said Grafton, one evening in the smoking-room; […]
8. Alternative letter-case form of Start (“a typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option”)

verb starts · starting · started · sta't · staht

1. ergative To set in motion. to start a stream of water; to start a rumour; to start a business
2. ergative To begin. The President fired the gun to start the footrace.
3. ergative To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine. to start the engine
4. ergative To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
5. ergative To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent. Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start.
6. intransitive To have its origin (at), begin. The speed limit is 50 km/h, starting at the edge of town.
7. intransitive To jerk, jump up, flinch, or draw back in surprise. But if he start, It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.

   Similar: jump

8. intransitive To awaken suddenly. I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed; [...]
9. transitive To disturb and set in motion; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee. The hounds started a fox.
10. ergative, of an object To come loose, to break free of a firmly set position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate. the storm started the bolts in the vessel
11. transitive To put into play. The charge against Zagallo then is not so much that he started Ronaldo, but that when it should surely have been clear that the player was in no fit state to take part he kept him on.
12. transitive To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from. to start a water cask
13. euphemistic, intransitive To begin one's menstrual cycle. Have you started yet?
14. intransitive, obsolete, possibly To begin a journey; to set forth. I GET letters from you far too seldom considering that you can much more easily find people starting for Rome than I to Athens: considering, too, that you are more certain of my being at Rome than I of your being at Athens.

Similar: begin · Opposite: stop, end, cease, finish, conclude, complete

noun starts · sta't · staht

1. An instance of starting.

noun starts · sta't · staht

1. A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
2. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket. The fall of water is 6 feet, and the radius of the curve is 8 feet, from the centre of the water-wheel to the extreme point of the start.
3. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse. ... horses, a number of men who seemed to acquire strength as the necessity for it increased, applied their shoulders to the starts, or shafts of the gin, and worked it with extraordinary speed. By twelve o'clock, thirty-two[…]

adverb more start · most start · sta't · staht

1. archaic, dialectal Completely, utterly. Col.—The age has no sense—the people are start mad—as mad as a March mare. We should have fine times, indeed if our laws did'nt compel the poor people to protect the property of the rich.

noun Starts · start

1. A typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option.

proper noun Starts · start

1. A surname from Old English.

proper noun the Start · start

1. UK, obsolete, slang The city of London, England. It is true that certain kinds of documents, especially sham hawkers’ licenses, may be had in the provinces, at prices suited to the importance of their contents, or to the probable gains of their circulation; but all the ‘regular bang-up fakes’ are manufactured in the ‘Start’ (metropolis), and sent

noun

1. abbreviation, acronym, uncountable Acronym of simple triage and rapid treatment
2. alternative, uncountable Alternative form of Start (“a typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option”)

proper noun

1. abbreviation, acronym Acronym of Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty