start

IPA: stˈɑrt

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.

(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).

Examples of "start" in Sentences

Only half a day left and all my exams for the term start ..
Knowing that look at the start if ($start = $total_posts) $start = ($start
Prices at the label start at $590 for a blouse and go up to $20,000 for an embroidered gown.
I say, even because most of the lists of diagnostic criteria for the label start with superficially charming.
There need be no waste of time in Morocco, even as there is no convention: having decided to start -- _start_.
~DL the file "WINDOWS JOURNAL VIEWER 1.5" it might start to DL the file itself but if not then select the ’start download’ link