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noun
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- a compensating equivalent
- a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- a natural consequence of development
- a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
- structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
verb
noun
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the beginning of anything
- the act of starting something
- a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
- a sudden involuntary movement
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- a signal to begin (as in a race)
- the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
verb
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- set in motion, cause to start
- depart for someplace
- bring into being
- get off the ground
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- get going or set in motion
- begin or set in motion
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- play in the starting lineup
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- bulge outward
noun
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the first or highest in an ordering or series
- the first element in a countable series
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- an honours degree of the highest class
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
adv
- the initial time
- before anything else
- before another in time, space, or importance
- prominently forward
adj
adj
noun
- The beginning; the first stage of anything.
- A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
- In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
- In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body
- In humans, usually the cell growth up to the end of the seventh week in the mother's body
- An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
noun
verb
adj
- Inoperative, disabled.
- On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- Inappropriate; untoward.
- Circumstanced.
- Cancelled; not happening.
- Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Presently unavailable.
- Started on the way.
- Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- The off front wheel came loose.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Far; off to the side.
- Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
adv
- Offstage.
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
prep
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Out of the possession of.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
noun
- The beginning of something.
- The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
- An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
- The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
- Ancestry.
- The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
adj
- Pertaining to the start or beginning of a series of events.
- describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing a batsman who opens the innings or a bowler who opens the attack
noun
- The first few measures of a musical composition.
- The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
- A gap permitting passage through.
- The initial period when a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening.
- A vacant position, especially in an array.
- An unoccupied employment position.
- In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.
- An act or instance of making or becoming open.
- A time available in a schedule.
- An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
- An act or instance of beginning.
- The first few moves in a game.
noun
- The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.
- The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.
- The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.
- The right to go in.
- The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
- The action of entering, or going in.
- The beginning of a musician's playing or singing; entry.
- The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.
- The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
verb
noun
- The main part or beginning of a period of time.
- The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
- A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
- A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
- Meat from that part of an animal.
- The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
- An improvised stabbing weapon.
- The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
- The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
- The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
- A loop forming an eye to a button.
- The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.
- A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
- A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
- The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
- Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
verb
- To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
- To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
- To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
- To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).
- To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.
- To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
adj
noun
- the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
- the basis on which something is grounded
- an institution supported by an endowment
- lowest support of a structure
- education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body
noun
- the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
- an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
- an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
- a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society
- a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
noun
- the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
- the act of beginning something new
- the first section of a communication
- formally making a person known to another or to the public
- a basic or elementary instructional text
- a new proposal
- the act of putting one thing into another
noun
- The beginning.
- An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
- A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
- A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
- The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
- A seafront or coastal promenade.
- A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
- A field of activity.
- The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
- An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
- The most conspicuous part.
- That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
- The side of a building with the main entrance.
- When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
- The direction of the enemy.
- 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.
verb
- To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
- To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
- To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
- To appear before.
- To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
- To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
- To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
- To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
- Of an alter in dissociative identity disorder: to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the patient's body.
- To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
- To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
- To face, be opposite to.
adj
- 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 calender month or year after the current one).
- Located at or near the front.
- 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).
adv
adv
adv
noun
- the act of beginning something new
- an item inserted in a written record
- a written record of a commercial transaction
- something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)
- something that provides access (to get in or get out)
- the act of entering
noun
- the point between the beginning and the end of a temporal period or process
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
- an intermediate part or section
- the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
adj
adj
- of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages
- between an earlier and a later period of time
verb
noun
- The state of being conceived; the beginning.
- An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.
- The act of conceiving.
- The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.
- The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
- The start of pregnancy.
- The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.
prep
- At a given time after the start of something; at.
- To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
- So as to impact; against.
- Some time during the day of.
- Indicating a means of subsistence.
- Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with.
- Dealing with the subject of; about; concerning.
- In the possession of.
- Inside (a vehicle) for the purpose of travelling.
- Indicating the person experiencing an emotion, cold, thirst, hunger, etc.
- Expressing figurative placement or attachment.
- Supported by (the specified part of itself).
- Having identical domain and codomain.
- At or in (a certain region or location).
- Upon; at the time of (and often because of).
- Under the influence of (a drug).
- Generated by.
- Regularly taking (a drug).
- Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
- Against; in opposition to.
- Indicating dependence or reliance.
- Covering.
- Engaged in or occupied with (an action or activity).
- Paid for by.
- Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
- At the date of.
- Indicating the target of, or thing affected by, an event or action.
- In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
- Indicating a means or medium.
- By virtue of; with the pledge of.
- Because of, or due to.
- Near; adjacent to; alongside.
- Having Vⁿ as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n.
- Without.
- Positioned at or resting against the outer surface of; attached to.
- So as to impart force to.
- Serving as a member of.
adv
- Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
- Along, forwards (continuing an action).
- To an operating state.
- In continuation, at length.
- So as to cover or be fitted.
adj
- Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed.
- Acting in character.
- Fitted; covering; being worn.
- Acceptable, appropriate.
- Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
- Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
- Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
- Menstruating.
- Performing according to schedule; taking place.
verb
noun
noun
- The outset of something; the point of entry, or the beginning of an action.
- The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
- The start of the landing area of a runway.
- The point where one mentally or physically is vulnerable in response to provocation or to particular things in general. As in emotions, stress, or pain.
- An entrance; the door or gate of a house.
- The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.
- Any end or boundary.
- The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due.
prep
- Indicating a starting point in time.
- Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variations.
- Used to indicate source or provenance.
- Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
- With reference to the location or position of a speaker or other observer or vantage point.
- Indicating removal or separation.
- Indicating exclusion.
- Produced with or out of (a substance or material).
- Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.
- Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
- Denoting a subtraction operation.
- Indicating a starting point on a range or scale.
- Indicating differentiation.
- Indicates a starting state of the predicament of the subject. Synonym of since being
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