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(v)
(intransitive) To begin, start.
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(n)
The beginning of an activity.
(intransitive) To start doing or to devote oneself to some task; to set upon.
(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(intransitive) To start an activity with the intention of finishing it.
(transitive) To commence the operation of; to activate; to launch.
To begin.
(baseball) To be the first batter of an inning.
get off the ground
The act of something that starts.
A new company or organization or business venture designed for rapid growth.
To move toward the speaker.
(Internet, CSS, transitive) To cause (a design element) to extend around the outside of something else, the opposite of being inset.
(copulative, rather formal, followed by an adjective or a noun) begin to be; turn into (often with permanent states).
(education) The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
An act or instance of making or becoming open.
To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.
(intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
The creation or beginning of something; the establishment.
(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
(transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
(adj)
(usually not comparable) Physically unobstructed, uncovered, etc.
(intransitive) To come into existence; to have origin or beginning; to spring, be derived (from, with).
(transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
(intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
(transitive) To create.
(transitive, of people) To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
(transitive) To lead; to direct; to be in charge of (people or tasks)
(transitive) To begin; to start.
(transitive) To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on.
The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
(transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
(ambitransitive) To start again.
(transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
(transitive) To bring about by urging or encouraging.
(transitive) To grasp or grip.
(transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
(transitive) To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
(transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
To induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony.
(adv)
(formal) In the first place; before anything else; first.
(transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
(transitive, rare) To propose (a new motion) in a meeting, which must subsequently be seconded.
(obsolete) To assault; to set upon.
Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time.
(transitive) To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.
(transitive) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct.
(transitive) To introduce or make a comment before (the main point); to premise.
(intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.
To guide people to their seats.
An organization founded to promote a cause
Tending to engage attention or interest; engrossing, interesting; enthralling.
(transitive) To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
The time at which an entertainment event is set to begin.
Alternative spelling of startup. [The act or process of starting a process or machine.]
(colloquial) Shoes.
Alternative spelling of kick start. [(transitive) To start a motorcycle.]
(computing) The act by which a computer is booted.
(military) A cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon.
(transitive) To put (someone or something) in a specific location.
(transitive) To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
(computing) To assign an initial value to a variable.
The act by which something is launched; a launch.
(computing, of a disk, etc.) That can be booted; from which one can boot the system.
That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise.
(transitive) To cause, to precipitate, to bring (something) about in response or as a result.
(transitive, slang) To steal a vehicle by bypassing the ignition key's security.
To force a person to the ground with the weight of one's own body, usually by jumping on top or slamming one's weight into them.
(transitive) To kick.
To start, begin.
(Canada, US) To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel.
(transitive) To bear or give birth to (a child).
The gut, the whole intestine (alimentary) canal
(transitive) To cut trees into logs.
(transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
(N)
"Started" is a song recorded by Australian rapper Iggy Azalea for her second studio album In My Defense.
(ergative) To begin, commence, initiate.
To make or become physically unobstructed, uncovered, etc.
A placename
(transitive) To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.
A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.
(transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
(intransitive) To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
A performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area.
(transitive) To develop; to form in the mind; to imagine.
(idiomatic, intransitive) To leave; to set out; to begin a journey or trip.
(transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
The act of begging; an imploring request.
(obsolete) Cessation; extinction (see without cease).
One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.