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The beginning of an activity.

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The movie was entertaining from start to finish.

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A sudden involuntary movement.

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He woke with a start.

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The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.

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Captured pieces are returned to the start of the board.

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An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.

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Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.

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A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.

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An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.

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to get, or have, the start

verb

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To begin, commence, initiate.

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To begin an activity.

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The rain started at 9:00.

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To have its origin (at), begin.

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The blue line starts one foot away from the wall.

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To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.

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To break away, to come loose.

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To put into play.

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To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.

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to start a water cask

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To start one's periods (menstruation).

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Have you started yet?

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A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.

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A handle, especially that of a plough.

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The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.

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The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

Examples of starts in a Sentence

She starts preschool this fall.

Court starts at nine o'clock, Dean said as he piled silverware on the kitchen counter.

The disturbing conditions of will, life and organic forces are eliminated from the problem; he starts with the clear and distinct idea of extension, figured and moved, and thence by mathematical laws he gives a hypothetical explanation of all things.

Training starts tomorrow morning at dawn.

I love the old geezer but the few times he starts talking about the old days, I tune him out.

Only if your memory starts working and you start spouting some useful information.

The Greek Lent begins on the Monday of Sexagesima, with a week of preparatory fasting, known as TvpoOl yca, or the "butter-week"; the actual fast, however, starts on the Monday of Quinquagesima (Estomihi), this week being known as "the first week of the fast" (050µas T&vv vriamtwv).

Every time something starts to make sense, up pops ten other perfectly logical answers that make a lot more sense.

He added, "The ride starts on June 13, two weeks from tomorrow."

I guess he figures if he starts with a male and a female, they'll reproduce.

We have almost an hour before it starts.

Instead of these are cats with more or less abbreviated tails, showing in greater or less degree a decided kink or bend near the tip. In other cases the tail is of the short curling type of that of a bulldog; sometimes it starts quite straight, but divides in a fork-like manner near the tip; and in yet other instances it is altogether wanting, as in the typical Manx cats.

In the third and longest section, the line starts from a pillar erected in the Perez Rosales pass, near Lake Nahuel-Huapi, and follows the water-parting southward to the highest point of Mt.

When the motor starts the brake is released; when it stops, or the current ceases, the brake goes on.

Thus the typical hydroid colony starts from a " founder " polyp, which in the vast majority of cases is fixed, but which may be floating, as in Nemopsis, Pelagohydra, &c. The founder-polyp usually produces by budding polyp-individuals, and these in their turn produce other buds.

Or a polyp on the main stem, after having budded a second time to form a pinnule, may give rise to a third bud, which starts a new biserial FIG.

Polyp 7 has proof sense, 1 o c oduced as its first bud, 8; as its second bud, a7, motion and nutriwhich starts a uniserial pinnule; and as a third t i on, until its bud I', which starts a biserial branch (I I'-VI') medusoid nature that repeats the structure of the main stem and and organization gives off pinnules.

Wollaston starts with the assumption that religion and morality are identical, and labours to show that religion is "the pursuit of happiness by the practice of truth and reason."

He starts from the Spinozistic thought that bodily facts and conscious facts, though not reducible one to the other, are different sides of one reality.

The breakwater starts opposite the promontory of Ras et-Tin, on which is a lighthouse, 180 ft.

Another breakwater starts from the Gabbari side, the opening between the two works being about half a mile.

It is true that a catacomb is often connected with the earlier sand-quarry, and starts from it as a commencement, but the two are excavated in different strata, suitable to their respective purposes, and their plan and construction are so completely unlike as to render any confusion between them impossible.

Suez is supplied with water by the fresh-water canal, which starts from the Nile at Cairo and is terminated at Suez by a lock which, north of the town, joins it to the gulf.

Accordingly, every treatise on applied mathematics, properly so-called, is directed to the criticism of the "laws" from which the reasoning starts, or to a suggestion of results which experiment may hope to find.

It starts from Perm on the Kama, and, crossing the Urals, reaches Ekaterinburg - the centre of mining industry - and Tyumen on the Tura, whence steamers ply via Tobolsk to Tomsk.

The definite boundary line starts from Mt.

His Continuatio chronicarum, begun not earlier than 1325, starts from the year 1303, and was carried up to 1347, the year of his death.

A second range, the Biggarsberg, starts from the Drakensberg near Mount Malani and goes E.S.E.

The main line starts from Durban, and passing through Pietermaritzburg (71 m.), Ladysmith (190 m.) and Newcastle (268 m.) pierces the Drakensberg at Laing's Nek by a tunnel 2213 ft.

Now as to the phase of the secondary wave, it might appear natural to suppose that it starts from any point Q with the phase of the primary wave, so that on arrival at P, it is retarded by the amount corresponding to QP. But a little consideration will prove that in that case the series of secondary waves could not reconstitute the primary wave.

The reform of medicine in France must be dated from the great intellectual awakening caused by the Revolution, but more definitely starts with the researches in anatomy and physiology of Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (1771-1802).

The foot starts as a small independent bulb on a separate blowing iron.

He starts from the fundamental thought of Jewish apocalyptic that the end of the world will be brought about by the direct intervention of God when evil has reached its climax.

The pass proper starts from Brieg (Swiss canton of the Valais), which is in the upper Rhone valley and 902 m.

The utility of this is seen in seasons when the shoot produced from the first bud is killed by frost; then one of the supplementary buds starts into growth, and thus replaces the injured shoot.

He refers to de Maistre's memorable book, Du Pape, as the most profound, accurate and methodical account of the old spiritual organization, and starts from that as the model to be adapted to the changed intellectual and social conditions of the modern time.

The line hich starts from Haiphong runs, in Yun-nan, via Mengtsze hsien (a great commercial centre), to the capital.

The Mogyana railway starts from this point and extends north to Uberaba, Minas Geraes, while the Paulista lines extend northwest into new and very fertile regions.

If she flies off, he starts up in an instant to arrive before her at the next place of alighting, and all his actions are full of life and spirit.

All thought starts from the ordinary dualism or pluralism which conceives of the world as consisting of the juxtaposition of mutually independent things and persons.

The lever M worked from the front of the machine causes the flywheel to be connected with the driving-wheel and the machine starts.

Although it starts from the erroneous basis of the phlogistic theory, it contains much matter of permanent value.

The usual method is to make a mixture of amorphous phosphorus and a large excess of iodine and then to allow water to drop slowly upon it; the reaction starts readily, and the gas obtained can be freed from any admixed iodine vapour by passing it through a tube containing some amorphous phosphorus.

When a jack-rabbit starts up before them, one of the coyotes bounds away in pursuit while the other squats on his haunches and waits his turn, knowing full well that the hare prefers to run in a circle, and will soon come round again, when the second wolf takes up the chase and the other rests in his turn..

The axis of each ctenidium, right and left, starts from a point well forward FIG.

Logically regarded, the origin of all teaching and learning of an intellectual kind is a process of induction (Enraywyi) from particulars to universal, and of syllogism (ovXXoyco-p5s) from universal to further particulars; induction, whenever it starts from sense, becomes the origin of scientific knowledge (bruiriran); while there is also a third process of example (1rapaSeiyµa) from particular to particular, which produces only persuasion.

The other method starts from the observed values of the periods, and establishes a differential equation from which these periods may be derived.

He starts as a phenomenalist from the hypothesis, which we have just described, that knowledge is ex Wundt.

His theory of "attuition," by which he supposes that we become conscious of objects outside ourselves, is his " return to dualism," and is indeed so like natural realism as to suggest that, like Ferrier, he starts from Hamilton to end in Hegel.

James Ward, in Naturalism and Agnosticism (1899), starts from the same phenomenalistic views of Mach and Kirchhoff about mechanics; he proceeds to the hypothesis of duality within experience, which we have traced in James Ward.

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