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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.
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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