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Start   /stɑrt/   Listen
verb
Start  v. t.  
1.
To cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as, the hounds started a fox. "Upon malicious bravery dost thou come To start my quiet?" "Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar."
2.
To bring into being or into view; to originate; to invent. "Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start."
3.
To cause to move or act; to set going, running, or flowing; as, to start a railway train; to start a mill; to start a stream of water; to start a rumor; to start a business. "I was engaged in conversation upon a subject which the people love to start in discourse."
4.
To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate; as, to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel. "One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum."
5.
(Naut.) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask.


start  v. i.  (past & past part. started; pres. part. starting)  
1.
To leap; to jump. (Obs.)
2.
To move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act. "And maketh him out of his sleep to start." "I start as from some dreadful dream." "Keep your soul to the work when ready to start aside." "But if he start, It is the flesh of a corrupted heart."
3.
To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start in business. "At once they start, advancing in a line." "At intervals some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still."
4.
To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure.
To start after, to set out after; to follow; to pursue.
To start against, to act as a rival candidate against.
To start for, to be a candidate for, as an office.
To start up, to rise suddenly, as from a seat or couch; to come suddenly into notice or importance.


noun
Start  n.  
1.
The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion. "The fright awakened Arcite with a start."
2.
A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort. "For she did speak in starts distractedly." "Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or in a hurry."
3.
A sudden, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy. "To check the starts and sallies of the soul."
4.
The beginning, as of a journey or a course of action; first motion from a place; act of setting out; the outset; opposed to finish. "The start of first performance is all." "I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start."
At a start, at once; in an instant. (Obs.) "At a start he was betwixt them two."
To get the start, or To have the start, to begin before another; to gain or have the advantage in a similar undertaking; usually with of. "Get the start of the majestic world." "She might have forsaken him if he had not got the start of her."


Start  n.  
1.
A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
2.
The handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle. (Prov. Eng.)
3.
The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.
4.
(Mining) The arm, or lever, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.


START  n.  A Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union which provided for stepwise reductions in the number of nuclear weapons possessed by each country.





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... scapegoat. I discussed with him once more the origin of the war of 1870, and he maintained most stoutly that France had been driven into it by Bismarck, and had only put herself in the wrong by herself declaring war, and had done this because her army system gave her a fortnight's start, the advantage of which was lost through the Emperor's hesitations. He thinks that in that fortnight the German Army could have been destroyed. It is on this point that ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn
... first lesson in reading, Charming turned pale and trembled; the blood mounted to his cheeks, his eyes filled with tears, and he gazed at his young teacher with a look that made her start; then all at once, with a great effort, he regained his self-possession, and said, in a tremulous voice, "Pazza, that is A." And the same day and at one sitting he learned all the letters of the alphabet; at the end of the week he spelled readily, and before the month ...
— Laboulaye's Fairy Book • Various
... was easy, considering the character of the country. McPherson moved along the road parallel with and near the railroad. McClernand's command was, one division (Hovey's) on the road McPherson had to take, but with a start of four miles. One (Osterhaus) was at Raymond, on a converging road that intersected the other near Champion's Hill; one (Carr's) had to pass over the same road with Osterhaus, but being back at Mississippi Springs, would not be ...
— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan
... Comte direct, and then tried to sow it in a course of lectures given in a hall chiefly paid for by Mr. Croly. But the seed would not take. After Edgar had gone, the sturdy brain and hand of D.G. Croly took the matter in charge and actually made the growth start. Then the World, with him at its head, evoked and published John Fiske's "Lectures on Positivism," far better in their first shape than when pared and cooked over into the "Cosmic Philosophy." Then came the "Modern Thinker" and "Positive Primer." Then Dr. McCosh came out, in reply, with ...
— Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" • Various
... play the song or role through a number of times, concentrating on both words and music at once. I am a pianist anyway; and committing to memory is very easy for me. I was trained to learn by heart from the very start. When I sang my little songs at six years old, mother would never let me have any music before me: I must know my songs by heart. And so I learned them quite naturally. To me singing was like ...
— Vocal Mastery - Talks with Master Singers and Teachers • Harriette Brower


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