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start
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /st??t/
- (General American) enPR: stärt, IPA(key): /st??t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Etymology 1
From Middle English stert, from the verb sterten (“to start, startle”). See below.
Noun
start (plural starts)
- The beginning of an activity.
- The movie was entertaining from start to finish.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
- He woke with a start.
- 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla
- The sight of his scared face, his starts and pallors and sudden harkenings, unstrung me […]
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- Captured pieces are returned to the start of the board.
- 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.
- (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- 2009, Liz Primeau, Steven A. Frowine, Gardening Basics For Canadians For Dummies
- You generally see nursery starts at garden centres in mid to late spring. Small annual plants are generally sold in four-packs or larger packs, with each cell holding a single young plant.
- 2009, Liz Primeau, Steven A. Frowine, Gardening Basics For Canadians For Dummies
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- to get, or have, the start
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? German: Start
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English sterten (“to leap up suddenly, rush out”), from Old English styrtan (“to leap up, start”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturtijan (“to startle, move, set in motion”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter- (“to be stiff”). 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)
- (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
- To set in motion.
- April 2, 1716, Joseph Addison, Freeholder No. 30
- 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.
- April 2, 1716, Joseph Addison, Freeholder No. 30
- To begin.
- To initiate operation of a vehicle or machine.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- 1674, William Temple, letter to The Countess of Essex
- Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start.
- 1674, William Temple, letter to The Countess of Essex
- To set in motion.
- (intransitive) To begin an activity.
- (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
- To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
- (intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise.
- I start as from some dreadful dream.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard
- Keep your soul to the work when it is ready to start aside.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXXI:
- [...] The tempest's mocking elf / Points to the shipman thus the unseen shelf / He strikes on, only when the timbers start.
- (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
- (transitive) To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
- c. 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I, Scene i[2]:
- [...]Upon malicious bravery dost thou come / To start my quiet?
- c. 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I, Scene i[2]:
- (transitive) To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgical Treatises
- One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternon.
- 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgical Treatises
- (intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise.
- (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
- (transitive, sports) To put into play.
- 2010, Brian Glanville, The Story of the World Cup: The Essential Companion to South Africa 2010, London: Faber and Faber, ?ISBN, page 361:
- 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.
- 2010, Brian Glanville, The Story of the World Cup: The Essential Companion to South Africa 2010, London: Faber and Faber, ?ISBN, page 361:
- (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To start one's periods (menstruation).
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
- end
Derived terms
- astart
- start-up
- starter
Descendants
- ? Dutch: starten
- ? German: starten
- ? Norman: stèrter
- ? French: starter
- ? Icelandic: starta
- ? Faroese: starta
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: starte
- ? Norwegian Nynorsk: starta
- ? Swedish: starta
- ? Danish: starte
- ? Slovak: štartova?
Translations
See also
Etymology 3
From Middle English stert, start, from Old English steort, stert, from Proto-Germanic *stertaz (“tail”). Cognate with Dutch staart (“tail”), German Sterz (“tail, handle”), Swedish stjärt (“tail, arse”).
Noun
start (plural starts)
- A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
- A handle, especially that of a plough.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
Derived terms
- redstart
Anagrams
- Strat, Tarts, strat, tarts
Breton
Adjective
start
- firm, strong
- difficult
Derived terms
- startijenn
Further reading
- Herve Ar Bihan, Colloquial Breton, pages 16 and 268: define "start" as "hard, difficult, firm"
Crimean Tatar
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Noun
start
- start
Declension
References
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?[3], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?start]
Noun
start m
- start (beginning point of a race)
Declension
Related terms
- p?ipravit se, pozor, start
See also
- cíl m
Further reading
- start in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- start in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Noun
start c (singular definite starten, plural indefinite starter)
- start
Inflection
Verb
start
- imperative of starte
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?rt/
- Hyphenation: start
- Rhymes: -?rt
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English start.
Noun
start m (plural starts, diminutive startje n)
- start
Derived terms
- pikstart
- startbaan
- starten
- startpunt
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
start
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of starten
- imperative of starten
German
Verb
start
- singular imperative of starten
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English start.
Noun
start m (definite singular starten, indefinite plural starter, definite plural startene)
- a start
Derived terms
- omstart
- startsted
Etymology 2
Verb
start
- imperative of starte
References
- “start” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?rt/
Noun
start m (definite singular starten, indefinite plural startar, definite plural startane)
- a start (beginning)
Verb
start
- imperative of starta
Derived terms
- omstart
References
- “start” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /start/
Noun
start m inan
- (sports) start (the beginning of a race)
- (aviation) takeoff
- Z niecierpliwo?ci? czeka?am na start samolotu do Pary?a.
- I was impatiently waiting for the plane to Paris to take off. (=for its take-off)
- Z niecierpliwo?ci? czeka?am na start samolotu do Pary?a.
- participation
- Wi?kszo?? kibiców ucieszy?a si?, ?e zdecydowa? si? on na start w zawodach.
- Most fans were happy to hear that he had decided to take part in the competition.
- Wi?kszo?? kibiców ucieszy?a si?, ?e zdecydowa? si? on na start w zawodach.
Declension
Derived terms
- startowa? (“to start”, verb)
- startowy (“tarting, take-off”, adjective)
- falstart m (“false start”, noun)
Further reading
- start in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Pronunciation
Noun
start c
- a start; a beginning (of a race)
- the starting (of an engine)
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
- starta
- starter
- startare
References
- start in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Anagrams
- ratts, trast
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [sta?t]
- Hyphenation: start
Noun
start (definite accusative start?, plural startlar)
- start
Usage notes
As Turks are generally not easily spelling consonants at the beginning of a syllable, this word may often be spelled as [s?ta?t].
Declension
Antonyms
- fini?
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skew
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /skju?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /skju/
- Rhymes: -u?
- Homophone: SKU
Alternative forms
- skeugh
Etymology 1
The verb is derived from Middle English skeuen, skewe, skewen (“to run at an angle or obliquely; to escape”), from Old Northern French escuer [and other forms], variants of Old French eschuer, eschever, eschiver (“to escape, flee; to avoid”) (modern French esquiver (“to dodge (a blow), duck; to elude, evade; to slip away; to sidestep”)), from Frankish *skiuhan (“to dread; to avoid, shun”), from Proto-Germanic *skiuhijan? (“to frighten”). The English word is cognate with Danish skæv (“crooked, slanting; skew, wry”), Norwegian skjev (“crooked, lopsided; oblique, slanting; distorted”), Saterland Frisian skeeuw (“aslant, slanting; oblique; awry”), and is a doublet of eschew.
The adjective and adverb are probably derived from the verb and/or from askew, and the noun is derived from either the adjective or the verb.
Verb
skew (third-person singular simple present skews, present participle skewing, simple past and past participle skewed)
- (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- Antonym: unskew
- (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:throw
- (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
skew (not generally comparable, comparative skewer or more skew, superlative skewest or most skew)
- (not comparable) Neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line; askew.
- (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
- (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
Derived terms
Translations
Adverb
skew (comparative more skew, superlative most skew)
- (rare) Askew, obliquely; awry.
Noun
skew (plural skews)
- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- A squint or sidelong glance.
- A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
- A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
- A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
- (electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- (statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
Derived terms
- on the skew
- skewness
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English skeu, skew (“stone with a sloping surface forming the slope of a gable, offset of a buttress, etc.”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman eschu, escuwe, eskeu, or Old Northern French eschieu, eskieu, eskiu, from Old French escu, escut, eschif (“a shield”) (modern French écu), from Latin sc?tum (“a shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewH- (“to cover, protect”) or *skey- (“to cut, split”).
Noun
skew (plural skews)
- (architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
- (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
- (architecture, obsolete) One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
Translations
Notes
References
Further reading
- clock skew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- skew lines on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- skew (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Middle English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skiu?/
- Rhymes: -iu?
Etymology 1
From an earlier form of Old Norse ský, from Proto-Germanic *skiwj?; doublet of sky.
Alternative forms
- skiw, skue, skyw, skewe, skwe, skiu, scue, schew
Noun
skew (plural skewes)
- sky, air
- (rare) cloud
References
- “skeu, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-23.
Etymology 2
From Old French escu, from Latin sc?tum.
Alternative forms
- scuwe, skyu, scheu, skyew, scu
Noun
skew (plural skewes)
- A segment of carved stone to cover a gable with.
References
- “skeu, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-23.
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