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adj
- Being the first in time or in history.
- (meat trade) Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts.
- Of greatest importance; primary.
- serving as an essential component
- having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
noun
verb
noun
adj
noun
- The beginning.
- The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
- (meteorology) The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
- (military) The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
- The side of a building with the main entrance.
- (UK) A seafront or coastal promenade.
- (slang, in the plural) A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
- (military) An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
- (military) When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
- (historical) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
- (military) The direction of the enemy.
- (informal) An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
- The most conspicuous part.
- A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
- A field of activity.
- (historical) A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
- (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses
- a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
- the line along which opposing armies face each other
- the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer
- a sphere of activity involving effort
- the side that is seen or that goes first
- a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
- the outward appearance of a person
- the side that is forward or prominent
- the immediate proximity of someone or something
adj
- Located at or near the front.
- (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calendar month or year after the current one).
- relating to or located in the front
intj
verb
- (transitive) To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
- (transitive) To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
- (transitive, slang) To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
- (intransitive, slang) To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
- (ambitransitive, multiplicity) Of an alter in a person with multiplicity (especially in dissociative identity disorder): to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the person's body.
- (linguistics, transitive) To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
- (transitive) To appear before.
- (intransitive, slang) To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
- (transitive or intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To act cocky, disrespectful and aggressive; to confront (someone).
- (phonetics, transitive, intransitive) To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
- (transitive) To face, be opposite to.
- (transitive) To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
- be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to
- confront bodily
name
- The First World (the first world).
- The Developing World (the developing world).
- The Developed World (the developed world).
- Earth: the Earth (our earth).
- The Fourth World (the fourth world).
- The Second World (the second world).
- The Third World (the third world).
- Existence.
- The Industrialized World (the industrialized world).
- The Universe: our universe.
prefix
- Beginning, initial.
- Etching or engraving.
- Located or positioned at a tip or tips of an object or body.
- Heights, high in location.
- The peak of a wave or cycle; accented.
- Located or positioned at the top; uppermost.
- High in altitude, montane.
- Upper.
- Acrobatics.
- Pointed in shape.
- The extremities: limbs, head, fingers, toes, etc.
noun
- Initialism of first ministry.
- (countable) Initialism of first minister.
- (countable, aviation) Initialism of fan marker.
- (countable) Initialism of foreign minister.
- (uncountable) Initialism of frequency modulation; radio programming that is broadcast in this form.
- Initialism of foreign ministry.
- (countable, military) Initialism of field marshal.
- (pathology) Initialism of fibromyalgia.
- (countable) Initialism of finance minister.
- (countable, chess) Initialism of FIDE Master.
- Initialism of finance ministry.
- (countable) Initialism of field manual.
- modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave
adv
- at the beginning
- (sciences) Calculated from first principles, i.e. from basic laws without any further additional assumptions.
- (law) From the time when a law, legal right or decree, contract, ownership interest, partnership (etc.) comes into force.
- (of an academic course) Taken with no prior qualifications.
adj
noun
- the initial part of the introduction
- An act or instance of beginning.
- a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made
- the first of a series of actions
- an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
- an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity
- an open or empty space in or between things
- opportunity especially for employment or promotion
- a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess
- a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise
- becoming open or being made open
- a possible alternative
- the first performance (as of a theatrical production)
- the act of opening something
- An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
- The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
- (mathematics) In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.
- A vacant position, especially in an array.
- The first few measures of a musical composition.
- An unoccupied employment position.
- A gap permitting passage through.
- The first few moves in a game.
- An act or instance of making or becoming open.
- The initial period when an art exhibition, fashion show, etc. is first opened, especially the first evening.
- A time available in a schedule.
verb
noun
- A beginning; a first move.
- A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
- The ability to act first or on one's own.
- (politics) An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.
- the first of a series of actions
- readiness to embark on bold new ventures
adj
adv
adj
- Coming before (all) others in time.
- Of the highest rank or position; of the greatest importance; of the highest priority.
- Positioned in front of (all) others in space, most forward.
- (nautical) Closest to the bow.
- preceding all others in spatial position
- situated closest to the bow
- ranking above all others
noun
- The beginning of something.
- (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
- (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
- (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
- (in the plural) Ancestry.
- The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
- an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
- properties attributable to your ancestry
noun
- The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; the beginning.
- (education) A graduation ceremony, from a school, college or university. Sometimes before the actual graduation.
- (education) The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the act of starting something
- an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred
noun
- An instance of starting.
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- The beginning of an activity.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
- Alternative letter-case form of Start (“a typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option”)
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the beginning of anything
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- a sudden involuntary movement
- the act of starting something
- the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
- a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
- a signal to begin (as in a race)
verb
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To begin one's menstrual cycle.
- To set in motion.
- To begin.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
- (intransitive) To jerk, jump up, flinch, or draw back in surprise.
- (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- (transitive, sports) To put into play.
- (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
- (transitive) To disturb and set in motion; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee.
- (ergative, of an object) To come loose, to break free of a firmly set position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
- 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.
- play in the starting lineup
- set in motion, cause to start
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- get off the ground
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- bulge outward
- begin or set in motion
- depart for someplace
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- get going or set in motion
- bring into being
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
prep_phrase
noun
- (figurative) The beginning; the first stage of anything.
- In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
- In a viviparous animal, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body.
- An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
- In a human, usually the cell growth of the child within the mother's body, through the end of the seventh week of pregnancy.
- (botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
- an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life
- (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium
noun
verb
adj
noun
- the first letter of a word (especially a person's name)
- (typography, calligraphy) A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.
- The first letter of a word or a name, especially of a person's full name (their initials).
- (phonology) onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.
verb
adv
- As the first in a number of examples or reasons.
- As a single given example, often the most obvious or important one and almost certainly enough to sway the argument, of several reasons for something.
- As one person among other people who may not hold the same opinion.
- as a particular one of several possibilities
adj
- First, earliest or original.
- (biology) Characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium.
- Of an element or isotope: occurring primordially (on Earth) (i.e. inherited from when the Earth was formed); because it is stable, or radioactive but so long-lived that some is left over from when the Earth was formed. For example, primordial radioisotopes (T = half-life in years) include uranium-235 (T = 7×10⁸), potassium-40 (T = 1.25×10⁹), uranium-238 (T = 4.5×10⁹), and thorium-232 (T = 1.4×10¹⁰).
- Primeval.
- having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
noun
pron
adj
name
noun
phrase
noun
phrase
- Initialism of to be declared.
- Initialism of to be deducted.
- Initialism of to be decided.
- Initialism of to be developed.
- Initialism of to be discovered.
- Initialism of to be done.
- Initialism of to be destroyed.
- Initialism of to be dated.
- Initialism of to be disclosed.
- Initialism of to be delivered.
- Initialism of to be derived.
- Initialism of to be discussed.
- Initialism of to be defined.
- Initialism of to be documented.
- Initialism of to be determined.
- Initialism of to be designed.
noun
adj
- (figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.
- (of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated.
- Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
- (cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.
- Virgin.
- (of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.
- (of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned.
- Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
- serving to set in motion
noun
- A maidservant.
- (cricket) A maiden over.
- A clothes maiden.
- (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
- (horse racing) A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
- (historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
- (horse racing) A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
- (Wicca) Alternative form of Maiden.
- an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)
- (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored
prep_phrase
prep
- After the start of.
- Indicates transition into another form or substance.
- (colloquial) Attacking or fighting a person.
- (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
- To or towards the inside of.
- Investigating the subject (of).
- Indicates division or the creation of subgroups or sections.
- (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to.
- Against, especially with force or violence.
- To or towards the region of.
verb
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noun
name
- Initialism of Housing Ombudsman Service.
- Initialism of Hampshire Ornithological Society.
- Initialism of Head of the Schuylkill.
- Initialism of Hands On Sacramento.
- Initialism of Hekscher-Ohlin-Samuelson.
- Initialism of Horizon Open Systems.
- Initialism of Health Outcomes Survey.
- Initialism of Haverfordwest Operatic Society.
- Initialism of Home Ownership Scheme.
- Initialism of Hornbeck Offshore Services.
noun
- A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period.
- A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.
- (chronology, astronomy, computing) A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time.
- (machine learning) One complete presentation of the training data set to an iterative machine learning algorithm.
- (geology) A geochronologic unit of hundreds of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of a period, and subdivided into ages (or sometimes subepochs).
- a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded
- a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
verb
verb
noun
- (music) A short, free-form piece of music, originally one serving as an introduction to a longer and more complex piece; later, starting with the Romantic period, generally a stand-alone piece.
- (figurative) A forerunner to anything.
- An introductory or preliminary performance or event.
- (programming) A standard module or library of subroutines and functions to be imported, generally by default, into a program.
- music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in an opera
- something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows
noun
- One who goes first.
- Any person who leads or directs.
- (UK, journalism) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
- One having authority to direct.
- A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
- (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
- (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
- (printing, in the plural) A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
- A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
- (meteorology) The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.
- (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
- (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
- (botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
- One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
- (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
- The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
- (film, printing) A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
- (fishing) A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
- (music, UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
- (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
- Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
- (marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
- An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
- a person who rules or guides or inspires others
- a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers
noun
- An introduction; something that leads into the beginning of something.
- (journalism) A short phrase that begins the caption of a photograph.
- A region of data at the beginning of a compact disc, holding the table of contents.
- the introductory section of a story
- wire connecting an antenna to a receiver or a transmitter to a transmission line
noun
- Initialism of state of the art.
- (electronics) Initialism of safe operating area (“the current conditions over which a device can be expected to operate without self-damage”)
- (business, accounting, banking) Initialism of statement of account.
- (electronics) Initialism of semiconductor optical amplifier (“a device that amplifies an optical signal directly”)
- (UK, census) Initialism of super output area.
- (computing, architecture) Initialism of service-oriented architecture.
- Initialism of sudden-onset aggression
- (computing, architecture) Initialism of search-oriented architecture.
- (computing, networks) Initialism of start of authority, a record that identifies the authoritative name server for a specific DNS database segment.
- (psychology) Initialism of stimulus onset asynchrony (“the time interval between the onset of a first stimulus and the onset of a second stimulus”)
name
- (UK) Initialism of Society of Ancients, an international society based in the UK.
- (US) Initialism of Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002.
- (US) Initialism of Society of Actuaries, one of the two main professional societies of actuaries in the United States.
- (US) Initialism of School of the Americas, a US Army training facility subsequently officially known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
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verb
noun
- the act of beginning something new
- the presentation of a debutante in society
- A performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area.
- The first appearance of a debutante in society.
- (Philippines) The coming-of-age celebration of a woman's eighteenth birthday.
- (also attributive) The first public presentation of a theatrical play, motion picture, opera, musical composition, dance, or other performing arts piece.
adj
name
- (transport) Initialism of Integrated Coach (a school bus manufacturer).
- (medicine) Initialism of interstitial cystitis (a type of chronic pain that affects the urinary bladder).
- (astronomy) Initialism of Index Catalogue (part of the NGC survey of J.L.E. Dreyer’s update to the Herschel General Catalogue).
- (Philippines) Initialism of Iligan City.
- (US politics) Initialism of Intelligence Community.
noun
- (Malaysia, Singapore) Initialism of identity card.
- Initialism of independent contractor.
- Initialism of irreducible complexity.
- Initialism of individual contributor.
- (chemistry) Initialism of ion chromatography.
- (medicine, uncountable) Initialism of intensive care.
- Initialism of intermittent catheterization.
- Initialism of integrity constraint.
- (chemistry) Initialism of intercalation compound.
- (slang) Initialism of incel.
- (electronics) Initialism of integrated circuit.
- (immunology) Initialism of immune complex.
- Initialism of incident commander.
- a group of government agencies and organizations that carry out intelligence activities for the United States government; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence
phrase
noun
adj
noun
- The beginning.
- The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
- (meteorology) The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
- (military) The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
- The side of a building with the main entrance.
- (UK) A seafront or coastal promenade.
- (slang, in the plural) A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
- (military) An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
- (military) When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
- (historical) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
- (military) The direction of the enemy.
- (informal) An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
- The most conspicuous part.
- A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
- A field of activity.
- (historical) A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
- (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses
- a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
- the line along which opposing armies face each other
- the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer
- a sphere of activity involving effort
- the side that is seen or that goes first
- a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
- the outward appearance of a person
- the side that is forward or prominent
- the immediate proximity of someone or something
adj
- Located at or near the front.
- (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calendar month or year after the current one).
- relating to or located in the front
intj
verb
- (transitive) To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
- (transitive) To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
- (transitive, slang) To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
- (intransitive, slang) To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
- (ambitransitive, multiplicity) Of an alter in a person with multiplicity (especially in dissociative identity disorder): to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the person's body.
- (linguistics, transitive) To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
- (transitive) To appear before.
- (intransitive, slang) To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
- (transitive or intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To act cocky, disrespectful and aggressive; to confront (someone).
- (phonetics, transitive, intransitive) To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
- (transitive) To face, be opposite to.
- (transitive) To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
- be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to
- confront bodily
noun
- Initialism of first ministry.
- (countable) Initialism of first minister.
- (countable, aviation) Initialism of fan marker.
- (countable) Initialism of foreign minister.
- (uncountable) Initialism of frequency modulation; radio programming that is broadcast in this form.
- Initialism of foreign ministry.
- (countable, military) Initialism of field marshal.
- (pathology) Initialism of fibromyalgia.
- (countable) Initialism of finance minister.
- (countable, chess) Initialism of FIDE Master.
- Initialism of finance ministry.
- (countable) Initialism of field manual.
- modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave
noun
- A beginning; a first move.
- A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
- The ability to act first or on one's own.
- (politics) An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.
- the first of a series of actions
- readiness to embark on bold new ventures
adj
noun
- The beginning of something.
- (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
- (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
- (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
- (in the plural) Ancestry.
- The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
- an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
- properties attributable to your ancestry
noun
- The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; the beginning.
- (education) A graduation ceremony, from a school, college or university. Sometimes before the actual graduation.
- (education) The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the act of starting something
- an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred
noun
- An instance of starting.
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- The beginning of an activity.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
- Alternative letter-case form of Start (“a typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option”)
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the beginning of anything
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- a sudden involuntary movement
- the act of starting something
- the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
- a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
- a signal to begin (as in a race)
verb
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To begin one's menstrual cycle.
- To set in motion.
- To begin.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
- (intransitive) To jerk, jump up, flinch, or draw back in surprise.
- (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- (transitive, sports) To put into play.
- (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
- (transitive) To disturb and set in motion; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee.
- (ergative, of an object) To come loose, to break free of a firmly set position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
- 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.
- play in the starting lineup
- set in motion, cause to start
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- get off the ground
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- bulge outward
- begin or set in motion
- depart for someplace
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- get going or set in motion
- bring into being
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
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- the initial part of the introduction
- An act or instance of beginning.
- a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made
- the first of a series of actions
- an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
- an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity
- an open or empty space in or between things
- opportunity especially for employment or promotion
- a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess
- a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise
- becoming open or being made open
- a possible alternative
- the first performance (as of a theatrical production)
- the act of opening something
- An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
- The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
- (mathematics) In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.
- A vacant position, especially in an array.
- The first few measures of a musical composition.
- An unoccupied employment position.
- A gap permitting passage through.
- The first few moves in a game.
- An act or instance of making or becoming open.
- The initial period when an art exhibition, fashion show, etc. is first opened, especially the first evening.
- A time available in a schedule.
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- (figurative) The beginning; the first stage of anything.
- In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
- In a viviparous animal, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body.
- An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
- In a human, usually the cell growth of the child within the mother's body, through the end of the seventh week of pregnancy.
- (botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
- an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life
- (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium
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- Initialism of Housing Ombudsman Service.
- Initialism of Hampshire Ornithological Society.
- Initialism of Head of the Schuylkill.
- Initialism of Hands On Sacramento.
- Initialism of Hekscher-Ohlin-Samuelson.
- Initialism of Horizon Open Systems.
- Initialism of Health Outcomes Survey.
- Initialism of Haverfordwest Operatic Society.
- Initialism of Home Ownership Scheme.
- Initialism of Hornbeck Offshore Services.
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- A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period.
- A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.
- (chronology, astronomy, computing) A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time.
- (machine learning) One complete presentation of the training data set to an iterative machine learning algorithm.
- (geology) A geochronologic unit of hundreds of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of a period, and subdivided into ages (or sometimes subepochs).
- a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded
- a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
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- One who goes first.
- Any person who leads or directs.
- (UK, journalism) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
- One having authority to direct.
- A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
- (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
- (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
- (printing, in the plural) A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
- A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
- (meteorology) The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.
- (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
- (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
- (botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
- One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
- (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
- The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
- (film, printing) A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
- (fishing) A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
- (music, UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
- (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
- Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
- (marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
- An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
- a person who rules or guides or inspires others
- a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers
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- An introduction; something that leads into the beginning of something.
- (journalism) A short phrase that begins the caption of a photograph.
- A region of data at the beginning of a compact disc, holding the table of contents.
- the introductory section of a story
- wire connecting an antenna to a receiver or a transmitter to a transmission line
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- Initialism of state of the art.
- (electronics) Initialism of safe operating area (“the current conditions over which a device can be expected to operate without self-damage”)
- (business, accounting, banking) Initialism of statement of account.
- (electronics) Initialism of semiconductor optical amplifier (“a device that amplifies an optical signal directly”)
- (UK, census) Initialism of super output area.
- (computing, architecture) Initialism of service-oriented architecture.
- Initialism of sudden-onset aggression
- (computing, architecture) Initialism of search-oriented architecture.
- (computing, networks) Initialism of start of authority, a record that identifies the authoritative name server for a specific DNS database segment.
- (psychology) Initialism of stimulus onset asynchrony (“the time interval between the onset of a first stimulus and the onset of a second stimulus”)
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- (UK) Initialism of Society of Ancients, an international society based in the UK.
- (US) Initialism of Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002.
- (US) Initialism of Society of Actuaries, one of the two main professional societies of actuaries in the United States.
- (US) Initialism of School of the Americas, a US Army training facility subsequently officially known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
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- (music) A short, free-form piece of music, originally one serving as an introduction to a longer and more complex piece; later, starting with the Romantic period, generally a stand-alone piece.
- (figurative) A forerunner to anything.
- An introductory or preliminary performance or event.
- (programming) A standard module or library of subroutines and functions to be imported, generally by default, into a program.
- music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in an opera
- something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows
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- the act of beginning something new
- the presentation of a debutante in society
- A performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area.
- The first appearance of a debutante in society.
- (Philippines) The coming-of-age celebration of a woman's eighteenth birthday.
- (also attributive) The first public presentation of a theatrical play, motion picture, opera, musical composition, dance, or other performing arts piece.
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- at the beginning
- (sciences) Calculated from first principles, i.e. from basic laws without any further additional assumptions.
- (law) From the time when a law, legal right or decree, contract, ownership interest, partnership (etc.) comes into force.
- (of an academic course) Taken with no prior qualifications.
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- Coming before (all) others in time.
- Of the highest rank or position; of the greatest importance; of the highest priority.
- Positioned in front of (all) others in space, most forward.
- (nautical) Closest to the bow.
- preceding all others in spatial position
- situated closest to the bow
- ranking above all others
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- As the first in a number of examples or reasons.
- As a single given example, often the most obvious or important one and almost certainly enough to sway the argument, of several reasons for something.
- As one person among other people who may not hold the same opinion.
- as a particular one of several possibilities
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- Being the first in time or in history.
- (meat trade) Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts.
- Of greatest importance; primary.
- serving as an essential component
- having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
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- the initial part of the introduction
- An act or instance of beginning.
- a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made
- the first of a series of actions
- an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
- an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity
- an open or empty space in or between things
- opportunity especially for employment or promotion
- a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess
- a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise
- becoming open or being made open
- a possible alternative
- the first performance (as of a theatrical production)
- the act of opening something
- An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
- The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
- (mathematics) In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.
- A vacant position, especially in an array.
- The first few measures of a musical composition.
- An unoccupied employment position.
- A gap permitting passage through.
- The first few moves in a game.
- An act or instance of making or becoming open.
- The initial period when an art exhibition, fashion show, etc. is first opened, especially the first evening.
- A time available in a schedule.
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- the first letter of a word (especially a person's name)
- (typography, calligraphy) A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.
- The first letter of a word or a name, especially of a person's full name (their initials).
- (phonology) onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.
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- First, earliest or original.
- (biology) Characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium.
- Of an element or isotope: occurring primordially (on Earth) (i.e. inherited from when the Earth was formed); because it is stable, or radioactive but so long-lived that some is left over from when the Earth was formed. For example, primordial radioisotopes (T = half-life in years) include uranium-235 (T = 7×10⁸), potassium-40 (T = 1.25×10⁹), uranium-238 (T = 4.5×10⁹), and thorium-232 (T = 1.4×10¹⁰).
- Primeval.
- having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
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- (figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.
- (of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated.
- Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
- (cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.
- Virgin.
- (of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.
- (of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned.
- Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
- serving to set in motion
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- A maidservant.
- (cricket) A maiden over.
- A clothes maiden.
- (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
- (horse racing) A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
- (historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
- (horse racing) A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
- (Wicca) Alternative form of Maiden.
- an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)
- (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored
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- (transport) Initialism of Integrated Coach (a school bus manufacturer).
- (medicine) Initialism of interstitial cystitis (a type of chronic pain that affects the urinary bladder).
- (astronomy) Initialism of Index Catalogue (part of the NGC survey of J.L.E. Dreyer’s update to the Herschel General Catalogue).
- (Philippines) Initialism of Iligan City.
- (US politics) Initialism of Intelligence Community.
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- (Malaysia, Singapore) Initialism of identity card.
- Initialism of independent contractor.
- Initialism of irreducible complexity.
- Initialism of individual contributor.
- (chemistry) Initialism of ion chromatography.
- (medicine, uncountable) Initialism of intensive care.
- Initialism of intermittent catheterization.
- Initialism of integrity constraint.
- (chemistry) Initialism of intercalation compound.
- (slang) Initialism of incel.
- (electronics) Initialism of integrated circuit.
- (immunology) Initialism of immune complex.
- Initialism of incident commander.
- a group of government agencies and organizations that carry out intelligence activities for the United States government; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence