Definition of start

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

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Amplitude :: Amplitude (n.) The extent of a movement measured from the starting point or position of equilibrium; -- applied especially to vibratory movements.
Dodge :: Dodge (v. i.) To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start..
Startle :: Startling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Startl.
Set :: Set (v. t.) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote; as, to set a psalm..
Kindle :: Kindle (v. i.) To take fire; to begin to burn with flame; to start as a flame.
Subsumable :: Subsultus (n.) A starting, twitching, or convulsive motion..
Skew :: Skew (v. i.) To start aside; to shy, as a horse..
New :: New (superl.) Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now commencing; different from has been; as, a new year; a new course or direction..
Erysipelas :: Erysipelas (n.) St. Anthony's fire; a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused inflammation of the skin, which, starting usually from a single point, spreads gradually over its surface. It is usually regarded as contagious, and often occurs epidemically..
Mushroom :: Mushroom (n.) One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.
Chancroid :: Chancroid (n.) A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre..
Starter :: Start (v. i.) The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse..
Forehand :: Forehand (n.) Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
Starting :: Starthroat (n.) Any humming bird of the genus Heliomaster. The feathers of the throat have a brilliant metallic luster.
Handicap :: Handicap (n.) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like..
Astert :: Astert (v. t.) To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun.
Start :: Start (v. t.) 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..
Snob :: Snob (n.) A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors..
Finish :: Finish (n.) Completion; -- opposed to start, or beginning..
Goal :: Goal (n.) The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end..
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