English - Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

English - Etymology 1

From Middle English stert, from the verb sterten (“to start, startle”). See below.

Noun

start (plural starts)

1. The beginning of an activity.

   The movie was entertaining from start to finish.

   • Shakespeare

     I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, / Straining upon the start.

2. A sudden involuntary movement.

   He woke with a start.

   • L'Estrange

     Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or in a hurry.

   • Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla

     The sight of his scared face, his starts and pallors and sudden harkenings, unstrung me […]

3. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
4. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.

   Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.

5. A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.

Translations

English - Etymology 2

From Middle English sterten (“to leap up suddenly, rush out”), from Old English styrtan (“to leap up, start”), from Proto-Germanic *sturtijaną (“to startle, move, set in motion”), causative of *stirtaną (“to leap, tumble”), from Proto-Indo-European *stere-, *strē- (“to be strong, steady, rigid, fixed”). Cognate with Old Frisian stirta (“to fall down, tumble”), Middle Dutch sterten (“to rush, fall, collapse”) (Dutch storten), Old High German sturzen (“to hurl, plunge, turn upside down”) (German stürzen), Old High German sterzan (“to be stiff, protrude”). More at stare.

Verb

start (third-person singular simple present starts, present participle starting, simple past and past participle started)

1. (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
   1. To set in motion.

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

      • Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

        I was engaged in conversation upon a subject which the people love to start in discourse.

   2. To begin.
   3. ​To initiate operation of a vehicle or machine.
   4. To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
   5. To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
      • Sir William Temple (1628–1699)

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

2. (intransitive) To begin an activity.

   The rain started at 9:00.

3. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
   1. (intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise.
      • William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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

      • John Dryden (1631-1700)

        I start as from some dreadful dream.

      • Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

        Keep your soul to the work when ready to start aside.

   2. (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

      • Wiseman

        One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum.

   3. (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
      • (Can we date this quote?) Mary Shelley

        I started from my sleep with horror […]

   4. To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.

      The hounds started a fox.

      • William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

        Upon malicious bravery dost thou come / To start my quiet?

4. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
   • 1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Penguin 1985 reprint), page 66:

     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 panel had warped or started a little on the other side.

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

   to start a water cask

Usage notes

• In uses 1.1 and 1.2 this is a catenative verb that takes the infinitive (to) or the gerund (-ing) form. There is no change in meaning.
• For more information, see Appendix:English catenative verbs

Antonyms

• stop

Derived terms

• astart
• starter

Translations

See also

English - Etymology 3

Noun

start (plural starts)

1. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
2. A handle, especially that of a plough.
3. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
4. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

English - Anagrams

• tarts

Crimean Tatar - Noun

start

1. start

Declension

Crimean Tatar - References

• V. A. Mirjejev, S. M. Usejinov (2002), Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian–Crimean Tatar Dictionary], Simferopol: Dolya, ISBN 966-7980-89-8

Czech - Noun

start m

1. start (beginning point of a race)

Related terms

• připravit se, pozor, start

See also

• cíl m

Danish - Noun

start c (singular definite starten, plural indefinite starter)

1. start

Inflection

Danish - Verb

start

1. imperative of starte

Dutch - Etymology

Borrowing from English start

Dutch - Noun

start m (plural starts, diminutive startje n)

1. start

Derived terms

• startbaan
• startpunt

Dutch - Verb

start

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of starten
2. imperative of starten

German - Verb

start

1. Imperative singular of starten.

Norwegian Bokmål - Etymology 1

From English start

Noun

start m (definite singular starten, indefinite plural starter, definite plural startene)

1. a start

   fra start til mål - from start to finish

References

• “start” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Bokmål - Etymology 2

Verb

start

1. imperative of starte

Norwegian Nynorsk - Etymology

From English start

Norwegian Nynorsk - Noun

start m (definite singular starten, indefinite plural startar, definite plural startane)

1. a start

Norwegian Nynorsk - References

• “start” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /start/

Polish - Noun

start m

1. (sports) start (the beginning of a race)
2. (aviation) takeoff

   Z niecierpliwością czekałam na start samolotu do Paryża.

   I was impatiently waiting for the plane to Paris to take off. (=for its take-off)

3. participation

   Większość kibiców ucieszyła się, że zdecydował się on na start w zawodach.

   Most fans were happy to hear that he had decided to take part in the competition.

Declension

Derived terms

• startować — verb to start
• startowy — adjective starting, take-off
• falstart (m) — noun false start

Swedish - Noun

start c

1. a start; a beginning (of a race)
2. the starting (of an engine)

Declension

Related terms

Swedish - References

• start in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

Turkish - Etymology

From English start.

Turkish - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [staɾt]
• Hyphenation: start

Turkish - Noun

start (definite accusative startı, plural startlar)

1. start

Antonyms

• finiş

Declension

Usage notes

As Turks are generally not easily spelling consonants at the beginning of a syllable, this word may often be spelled as IPA^(key): [sɯtaɾt].

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