start

Forms

1.The beginning of an activity.
- The movie was entertaining from start to finish.
- I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, / Straining upon the start.
2.A sudden involuntary movement.
- Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or in a hurry.
- He woke with a start.
3.The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- Captured pieces are returned to the start of the board.
4.An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.
- Wilshere, who made his first start for England in the midweek friendly win over Denmark, raced into the penalty area and chose to cross rather than shoot - one of the very few poor selections he made in the match.

1.To begin, commence, initiate.
- The President fired the gun to start the footrace.
- Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start.
- I was some years ago engaged in conversation with a fashionable French Abbe, upon a subject which the people of that kingdom love to start in discourse.
2.To have its origin (at), begin.
- The blue line starts one foot away from the wall.
- The speed limit is 50 km/h, starting at the edge of town.
3.To move suddenly, from a previous state of rest; to startle.
- I start as from some dreadful dream.
- Keep your soul to the work when it is ready to start aside.
- One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternon.
4.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.