start
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set in motion, cause to start
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have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
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move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
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get going or set in motion
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begin or set in motion
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A Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union which provided for stepwise reductions in the number of nuclear weapons possessed by each country.
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A typical button for video games, with varying results. Often, it pauses a game, starts a game or chooses an option.
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Start, as a verb, refers to the action of commencing or initiating something. It involves the beginning or initiation of an activity, process, event, or journey. It can also refer to the point in time or the location from which something begins. As a noun, start refers to the beginning or opening stage of something.
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to move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act
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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
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to bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent
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to pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask
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a convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort
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a tail, or anything projecting like a tail
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the handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle
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the arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse
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A long handle or tail; whence, by analogy, start point. But
sometimes applied by navigators to any point from which a departure is
taken. Also, the expected place of a struck whales rising, after having
plunged or sounded.--To start, applied to liquids, is to empty; but if
to any weight, as the anchor, c., implies to move.--To start bread.
To turn it out of bags or casks, and stow it in bulk.--To start a
butt-end. When a plank has loosened or sprung at the butt-end, by the
ships labouring, or other cause.--To start a tack or sheet. To slack
it off, as in tacking or manœuvring, raise tacks and sheets.start meaning & definition 23 of start.
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To cause an engine to work.
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a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
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a signal to begin (as in a race)
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