Definition of Start

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Definition of Start

Start

To leap; to jump.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

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Start Quotations

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald Reagan

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
Napoleon Hill

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
Napoleon Hill

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Norman Vincent Peale

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Theodore Roosevelt

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
Pablo Picasso

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Pablo Picasso

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
Andy Warhol

Start Translations

start in Afrikaans is begin, instel, aanskakel
start in Danish is begynde, begyndelse
start in Dutch is aanzetten tot, activeren, aanzetten
start in German is Start {m}, Beginn {m}
start in Italian is esordire, decollare, principio, comincio, inizio
start in Latin is initium, incoho, origo, satus, orsa
start in Norwegian is begynne
start in Spanish is ponerse, arrancar, principiar, decolar, comienzo

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