start
IPA: stˈɑrt
noun
- The beginning of an activity.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- (UK, slang, archaic) A happening or proceeding.
- An instance of starting.
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- 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.
- A typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option.
- A surname from Old English.
- (medicine) Acronym of simple triage and rapid treatment.
- (law) Acronym of Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
verb
- (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
- To set in motion.
- To begin.
- To ready the 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.
- (intransitive) To begin an activity.
- (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
- To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
- (intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise.
- (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
- (transitive) To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
- (intransitive) To flinch or draw back.
- (transitive) To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
- (transitive, sports) To put into play.
- (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To start one's periods (menstruation).
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