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Starting   /stˈɑrtɪŋ/   Listen
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
Starting  n.  A. & n. from Start, v.
Starting bar (Steam Eng.), a hand lever for working the valves in starting an engine.
Starting hole, a loophole; evasion. (Obs.)
Starting point, the point from which motion begins, or from which anything starts.
Starting post, a post, stake, barrier, or place from which competitors in a race start, or begin the race.





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... tyranny whose roots were in feudalism, Emerson, the great radical of America, the arch-radical of the world, was revolting against the evils whose roots were in universal suffrage. By showing the identity in essence of all tyranny, and by bringing back the attention of political thinkers to its starting-point, the value of human character, he has advanced the political thought of the world by one step. He has pointed out for us in this country to what end ...
— Emerson and Other Essays • John Jay Chapman
... clumsy sweeps, till, clear of the land, the fanning of a light air from the south-west gave her gentle steerage way. Soon not a boat was left in port; even those whose weather-wise "skeely" old skippers had counselled caution, at length, against their will and better judgment, were shamed into starting. After all, it was no great distance they were going; with ordinary luck they might be back before much wind came. And if the worst came to the worst and they were caught out at sea, why, the boats were weatherly craft, manned by ...
— Stories of the Border Marches • John Lang and Jean Lang
... answered Melas, "hurry up about it, for it is getting late and we must soon be starting for your ...
— The Spartan Twins • Lucy (Fitch) Perkins
... He tore into the station and out through the passageway past the beckoning hand of the ticket-man who sat in the booth at the staircase, and strode up three steps at a time. The guard shouted: "Hurry! You may get it; she's just starting!" and a friendly hand reached out, and hauled him up on the platform of ...
— The Girl from Montana • Grace Livingston Hill
... speak to Akka, his glance happened to rest on this hedge. He uttered a little cry of surprise, and all the wild geese instantly looked up, and stared in the same direction. At first, both the geese and the boy thought that all the round, gray stones in the hedge had acquired legs, and were starting on a run; but soon they saw that it was a company of rats who ran over it. They moved very rapidly, and ran forward, tightly packed, line upon line, and were so numerous that, for some time, they covered the ...
— The Wonderful Adventures of Nils • Selma Lagerlof


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