Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word START

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Definitions of START

1. The beginning of an activity.
2. A sudden involuntary movement.
3. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
4. An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
5. An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
6. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
7. A handle, especially that of a plough.
8. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
9. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
10. A typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option.
11. An instance of starting.
12. A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
13. (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
14. (UK, slang, archaic) A happening or proceeding.
15. (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
16. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
17. (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
18. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
19. (transitive, sports) To put into play.
20. (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
21. (intransitive, euphemistic) To start one's periods (menstruation).
22. A Old English surname from Old English.
23. (medical) Acronym of simple triage and rapid treatment.
24. (law) Acronym of Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

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Examples of Using START in a Sentence

• This calendar era is based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus, AD counting years from the start of this epoch and BC denoting years before the start of the era.
• 942 – Start of the four-day Battle of al-Mada'in, between the Hamdanids of Mosul and the Baridis of Basra over control of the Abbasid capital, Baghdad.
• By 1992, he became the first Egyptian and Middle Eastern artist to start making high-tech music videos.
• The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Eastern Roman Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD.
• Nineteen years after the start of the war, the Black Prince, eldest son and heir of the English King, set out on a major campaign in south-west France.
• At its start, it produced mechanical adding machines, and later moved into programmable ledgers and then computers.
• Cuba built the first railway system in the Spanish empire, before the 1848 start in the Iberian peninsula.
• The language generated by a grammar is the set of all strings of terminal symbols that can be derived, by repeated rule applications, from some particular nonterminal symbol ("start symbol").
• Since the start of the 21st century, the Cook Islands has directed its own independent foreign and defence policy, and also has its own customs regulations.
• where A, B, and C are nonterminal symbols, the letter a is a terminal symbol (a symbol that represents a constant value), S is the start symbol, and ε denotes the empty string.
• 1271 – Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China.
• 861 – Assassination of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil by the Turkish guard, who raise al-Muntasir to the throne, start of the "Anarchy at Samarra".
• It is the last period of the Proterozoic Eon as well as the last of the so-called "Precambrian supereon", before the beginning of the subsequent Cambrian Period marks the start of the Phanerozoic Eon, where recognizable fossil evidence of life becomes common.
• His theories dominated psychiatry at the start of the 20th century and, despite the later psychodynamic influence of Sigmund Freud and his disciples, enjoyed a revival at century's end.
• The years of reign of Bidatsu start in 572 and end in 585; however, there are no certain dates for this emperor's life or reign.
• Many writers begin the sequence with 0 and 1, although some authors start it from 1 and 1 and some (as did Fibonacci) from 1 and 2.
• Start with a space (for example, a surface), and some point in it, and all the loops both starting and ending at this point—paths that start at this point, wander around and eventually return to the starting point.
• Friction can have dramatic consequences, as illustrated by the use of friction created by rubbing pieces of wood together to start a fire.
• A snap (colloquially called a "hike", "snapback", or "pass from center") is the backward passing of the ball in gridiron football at the start of play from scrimmage.
• The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in the year 862, ruled by Varangians.
• The earliest written sources mentioning Finland start to appear from the 12th century onwards when the Catholic Church started to gain a foothold in Southwest Finland.
• In computing, interrupt latency refers to the delay between the start of an Interrupt Request (IRQ) and the start of the respective Interrupt Service Routine (ISR).
• The start of the Jurassic was marked by the major Triassic–Jurassic extinction event, associated with the eruption of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP).
• This month marks the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and contains the summer solstice, which is the day with the most daylight hours.
• In common years, the midpoint of the year occurs at noon on this date, while in leap years, it occurs at midnight (start of the day).

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