start

Definition of start

Pronunciation: stärt

v. i.

[imp. & p. p. started; p. pr. & vb. n. starting.]

To move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act.

And maketh him out of his sleep to start.

- Chaucer.

I start as from some dreadful dream.

- Dryden.

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

- I. Watts.

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

- Shak.

To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start in business.

At once they start, advancing in a line.

- Dryden.

At intervals some bird from out the brakes
Starts into voice a moment, then is still.

- Byron.

To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure.

To start after
to set out after; to follow; to pursue.

To start against
to act as a rival candidate against.

To start for
to be a candidate for, as an office.

To start up
to rise suddenly, as from a seat or couch; to come suddenly into notice or importance.

v. t.

To cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as, the hounds started a fox.

Upon malicious bravery dost thou come
To start my quiet?

- Shak.

Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Cæsar.

- Shak.

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

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

- Sir W. Temple.

To cause to move or act; to set going, running, or flowing; as, to start a railway train; to start a mill; to start a stream of water; to start a rumor; to start a business.

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

- Addison.

To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate; as, to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel.

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

- Wiseman.

(Naut.) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask.

The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion.

The fright awakened Arcite with a start.

- Dryden.

A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort.

For she did speak in starts distractedly.

- Shak.

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

- L'Estrange.

A sudden, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy.

To check the starts and sallies of the soul.

- Addison.

The beginning, as of a journey or a course of action; first motion from a place; act of setting out; the outset; - opposed to finish.

The start of first performance is all.

- Bacon.

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

- Shak.

At a start
at once; in an instant.

At a start he was betwixt them two.

- Chaucer.

To get the start
to begin before another; to gain or have the advantage in a similar undertaking; - usually with of. - Shak.

A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.

The handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle.

The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.

(Mining) The arm, or lever, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

A Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union which provided for stepwise reductions in the number of nuclear weapons possessed by each country.

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