starter

IPA: stˈɑrtɝ

noun

  • Someone who starts, or who starts something.
  • The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
  • (baseball) A starting pitcher.
  • (golf) A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
  • Something that starts something.
  • An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.
  • A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp.
  • A yeast culture used to start a fermentation process.
  • Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
  • The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
  • (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, Britain) 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.
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Examples of "starter" in Sentences

  • What is the starter
  • As for the starter, he ate soup.
  • We always eat starter at dinner.
  • Soup was the starter of the meal.
  • Morisetti was the only starter in the heat.
  • First, the dependable second starter thing.
  • Firework is always a potential fire starter.
  • The restaurant offers the best starter in the world.
  • Jackson remained the starter for the rest of the season. 2007.
  • For starters, the use of the ampersand is wholly unprofessional.

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