English Dictionary

start

/stɑːt/

verb

To set in motion. / To begin. / To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine. / To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).

I start my day with a cup of coffee.

意味（1）

To set in motion.

to start a stream of water; to start a rumour; to start a business

意味（2）

To begin.

Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.

意味（3）

To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.

to start the engine

意味（4）

To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).

意味（5）

To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.

Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start.

意味（6）

(intransitive) To begin an activity.

The rain started at 9:00.

意味（7）

(intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.

The speed limit is 50 km/h, starting at the edge of town.

意味（8）

(intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise.

But if he start,

But if he start, It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.

意味（9）

(intransitive) To awaken suddenly.

I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed; …

意味（10）

(transitive) To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.

The hounds started a fox.

意味（11）

(intransitive) To flinch or draw back.

Physical poison would make them start from arsenicked bread; shall not the moral poison which is in it, make them start more promptly still from slave produce?

意味（12）

(transitive) To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.

to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel

意味（13）

(intransitive) To break away, to come loose.

… we could, with the greateſt eaſe, as well as clearneſs, ſee all objects, (ourſelves unſeen) only by applying our eyes cloſe to the crevice, where the moulding of a pannel had warp'd, or ſtarted a little on the other ſide.

意味（14）

(transitive, sports) To put into play.

The charge against Zagallo then is not so much that he started Ronaldo, but that when it should surely have been clear that the player was in no fit state to take part he kept him on.

意味（15）

(transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.

to start a water cask

意味（16）

(intransitive, euphemistic) To start one's periods (menstruation).

Have you started yet?