started
开始,开始了,启动,开始的
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Definitions
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- : to begin or set out, as on a journey or activity.
- : to appear or come suddenly into action, life, view, etc.; rise or issue suddenly forth.
- : to spring, move, or dart suddenly from a position or place: The rabbit started from the bush.
- : to be among the entrants in a race or the initial participants in a game or contest.
- : to give a sudden, involuntary jerk, jump, or twitch, as from a shock of surprise, alarm, or pain: The sudden clap of thunder caused everyone to start.
- : to protrude: eyes seeming to start from their sockets.
- : to spring, slip, or work loose from place or fastenings, as timbers or other structural parts.
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- : to set moving, going, or acting; to set in operation: to start an automobile; to start a fire.
- : to establish or found: to start a new business.
- : to begin work on: to start a book.
- : to enable or help set out on a journey, a career, or the like: The record started the young singer on the road to stardom.
- : to cause or choose to be an entrant in a game or contest: He started his ace pitcher in the crucial game.
- : to cause to work loose from place or fastenings.
- : to rouse from its lair or covert; flush.
- : to draw or discharge from a vessel or container; empty.
- : Archaic. to cause to twitch, jump, or flinch involuntarily; startle.
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- : a beginning of an action, journey, etc.
- : a signal to move, proceed, or begin, as on a course or in a race.
- : a place or time from which something begins.
- : the first part or beginning segment of anything: The start of the book was good but the last half was dull.
- : an instance of being a participant in a race or an initial participant in a game or contest: The horse won his first two starts.
- : a sudden, springing movement from a position.
- : a sudden, involuntary jerking movement of the body: to awake with a start.
- : a lead or advance of specified amount, as over competitors or pursuers.
- : the position or advantage of one who starts first: The youngest child should have the start over the rest.
- : a chance, opportunity, aid, or encouragement given to one starting on a course or career: The bride's parents gave the couple a start by buying them a house.
- : a spurt of activity.
- : a starting of parts from their place or fastenings in a structure.
- : the resulting break or opening.
- : an outburst or sally, as of emotion, wit, or fancy.
Phrases
- start from scratch
- start in
- start in on
- start off
- start out
- start over
- start something
- start up
- false start
- fits and starts
- for openers (starters)
- (start) from scratch
- from soup to nuts (start to finish)
- get off the ground (to a flying start)
- head start
- running start
- to start with
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
And not just sick in the body but in your mind, because you start obsessing.
Between 25 and 30, you’re trying to decide how much longer before you start growing a beard and calling yourself ‘Daddy.
Kickstarter is one start-up platform that seems to have realized the danger.
But maybe you have to start somewhere else — with Lamont Waltman Marvin, Monty, his father, the Chief, the old man.
So Marvin had the old showbiz glamour in his life from the start.
Keep closely covered with a bell glass and, in a few weeks, more or less, the baby Ferns will start to put in an appearance.
The smoke from her kitchen fire rose white as she put in dry sumac to give it a start.
There are sentimental children, as there are sentimental adults, who seem never happier than when the tears are ready to start.
But the day he planned to start was very cold—the mercury stood twenty-seven below zero.
He said that you were going along, and so I thought I'd hunt you up and tell you that we'll start about seven in the morning.