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(v)
To bring in as a member; to make a part of.
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(intransitive) To come into existence; to have origin or beginning; to spring, be derived (from, with).
(adj)
Having experience and skill in a subject.
(n)
The beginning of an activity.
A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.
Educated or informed.
An expert in a particular field, especially as called upon to provide comment or opinion in the media; a commentator, a critic.
A person with or without significant mental disabilities who is very gifted in one area of activity, such as playing the piano or mental arithmetic.
Alternative spelling of tyro; a newly recruited soldier. [A beginner; a novice.]
Misspelling of lead-up. [An event, or sequence of events, that leads up to something; the period during which these events occur.]
Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject.
A beginner; a novice.
(transitive, figuratively) To begin discussion about (something).
someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced.
(transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
A beginning; a first move.
(transitive) To make operational.
The act by which something is established; establishment.
To induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony.
(ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
(transitive) To suggest a plan, course of action, etc.
(transitive, of people) To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
(transitive) To lead; to direct; to be in charge of (people or tasks)
(uncountable) The process of preparing something to begin.
(transitive) To create.
(transitive) To tell (someone) what they must or should do.
(ambitransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.
(transitive) To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip; to forearm.
(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
(transitive) To arrange in working order.
(transitive) To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
(transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
(transitive) To instruct or train.
To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.
(transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.
(transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
(intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
To make or become physically unobstructed, uncovered, etc.
(transitive, followed by with) To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) know; to make familiar.
(education) The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
Obligated or locked in (often, but not necessarily, by a pledge) to some course of action.
(transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
To retain (someone) as an employee.
(transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
(transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
To issue, distribute, or give out.
A new company or organization or business venture designed for rapid growth.
(transitive) To set off an event or action; to bring about; to produce.
(transitive) To begin or initiate (something); to found.
(transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.
To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
A person who has special knowledge about the inner workings of a group, organization, or institution.
An act or instance of making or becoming open.
(transitive) To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.
The act by which an employee is hired.
The act of something that starts.
(transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
(ergative) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
(transitive) To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
(transitive) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.
(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
(intransitive) To begin, start.
(ambitransitive) To start again.
To launch again.
To guide people to their seats.
(transitive, law) To start criminal proceedings against.
(transitive) To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.
(physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
Non-Oxford British standard spelling of organize.
To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.
(transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).
(transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:
(intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
(transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
(ambitransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
(transitive) To commit (official papers) to some office.
(transitive) To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
(transitive) To bring about by urging or encouraging.
(transitive) To grasp or grip.
(transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
(transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)
To encourage into action.
(transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
Tending to engage attention or interest; engrossing, interesting; enthralling.
To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
(transitive) To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.
(transitive) To undo or open a lock or something locked by, for example, turning a key, or selecting a combination.
To bring about; to put into practice; to carry out.
(figurative) To let go; to release.