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Beginning   /bɪgˈɪnɪŋ/   Listen
Beginning

noun
1.
The event consisting of the start of something.  Antonym: ending.
2.
The time at which something is supposed to begin.  Synonyms: commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time.  "She knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"  Antonyms: end, middle.
3.
The first part or section of something.  Antonyms: end, middle.
4.
The place where something begins, where it springs into being.  Synonyms: origin, root, rootage, source.  "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation" , "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River" , "Communism's Russian root"
5.
The act of starting something.  Synonyms: commencement, start.  Antonym: finish.
adjective
1.
Serving to begin.  Synonym: first.  "The first verse"


Begin

verb
(past & past part. began, begun; pres. part. beginning)
1.
Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action.  Synonyms: commence, get, get down, set about, set out, start, start out.  "Who will start?" , "Get working as soon as the sun rises!" , "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia" , "He began early in the day" , "Let's get down to work now"  Antonym: end.
2.
Have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense.  Synonym: start.  "The second movement begins after the Allegro" , "Prices for these homes start at $250,000"  Antonym: end.
3.
Set in motion, cause to start.  Synonyms: commence, lead off, start.  "The Iraqis began hostilities" , "Begin a new chapter in your life"  Antonym: end.
4.
Begin to speak or say.
5.
Be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series.  "A terrible murder begins the novel" , "The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester"
6.
Have a beginning, of a temporal event.  "The company's Asia tour begins next month"
7.
Have a beginning characterized in some specified way.  Synonym: start.  "My property begins with the three maple trees" , "Her day begins with a workout" , "The semester begins with a convocation ceremony"
8.
Begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object.  Synonym: start.  "She started the soup while it was still hot" , "We started physics in 10th grade"
9.
Achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative.  "You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war"
10.
Begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language.  "We started French in fourth grade"



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"Beginning" Quotes from Famous Books



... trembling in the door, Bart cast the departing favor of a throat-tearing growl, and then shambled across the meadow with that smooth trot which wears down all other four-footed creatures. He was already on the far side of the meadow, and beginning the ascent of the first slope when the glint of the sun on the yellow wild flowers flashed on the eye of Kate. It had all seemed natural until that moment, the only possible thing to do, but now she felt suddenly that Joan was thrown away thought of the darkness which would ...
— The Seventh Man • Max Brand
... along one morning, just as day was beginning to break, when I sees a slip of a pig trotting before me, with nobody near him; but as the road was lonely, and myself rather down in heart, I thought, Musha! but yer fine company, anyhow, av a body could only keep you with him. But, ye see, a pig—saving your presence—is a baste not easily ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... would restore my head. It really wants rest. You can't know how weak it is. I cannot guide a single thought. Those very trifling cares were ever more toilsome to me than important matters; they destroy the mind. But I am beginning another sheet; I am sure you must be tired of this unconnected medley. I ...
— Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete • Matthew L. Davis
... one but my mother and Edna; I should have been lonely indeed. But now I must not keep you standing any longer; the wind is cold, and you are beginning to ...
— Our Bessie • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... after reading and again reading much dreary detail, I can say next to nothing, except that it is dated as beginning in 1776, near thirty years after Cocceji's; ["In 1748" Cocceji's was completed; "in 1774-1775," on occasion of the Silesian Reviews, Von Carmer, Chancellor of Silesia, knowing of the King's impatience at the state of Law, ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XXI. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle


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