starting block

start; beginning; initiation

to start; to begin; to initiate

a blockage, something in the way / block, a hard, square object / (computing) block

block

lace (fabric)

lathe

race (of people) / race (competition)

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend