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Definition: Get Started |
Get StartedVerb1. Start to be active; "Get cracking, please!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Get StartedSynonyms: bestir oneself (v), get cracking (v), get going (v), get moving (v), get rolling (v), get weaving (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Get Started |
| English words defined with "get started": commence ♦ dawn ♦ embark on ♦ get off the ground ♦ hobbyhorse ♦ start, start up ♦ take off. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "get started": activation barrier ♦ computer literacy ♦ Demon Internet Ltd., demoscene ♦ IBM 1620 ♦ ORPHEUS ♦ Peeping Tom of Coventry ♦ ROOSEVELT ♦ urban legend. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Now if you wanna let go of my neck, I can get started. (One Bad Day; writing credit: Chad Dalberg; Joshua Lou Friedman) I guess the question I'm asked most often is how did I get started with all this and whenever I'm asked that question I always tell this story, and you can believe it because it is a true story, although I am a pathological liarbut not really. (Harry Anderson's Hello Sucker; writing credit: Harry Anderson) So, how'd you get started in this business? (Ronin; writing credit: J.D. Zeik) Aah, he'll never get started. I'll make public opinion out there within 5 hours! (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; writing credit: Sidney Buchman) | |
Lyrics | Just get started (Dancing On the Ceiling; performing artist: Lionel Richie) WE CAN GET STARTED AS LONG (Hit Me Off; performing artist: New Edition) | |
Movie/TV Titles | I Can't Get Started (2002) Walk Away the Pounds with Leslie Sansone: Get Up and Get Started (2001) Richard Simmons: Get Started (1985) I Can't Get Started (1985) | |
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Theater & Movies |
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| Author | Quotation |
Emo Philips | When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas... |
Scottish Prayer | O Lord, point me right for thou knowest if I get started moving wrong, thou thyself could not change me. |
W. Clement Stone | So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. |
| That's why many fail -- because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Quicker we get started, surer it is we get there. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Before I get started here, I want to thank my dear friend, Margaret Thatcher, for being part of yet another important milestone in my life and for those very kind words. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
get started | 8 |
get started in modeling | 4 |
atkins diet get started | 4 |
get started modeling | 3 |
business get started | 3 |
i can t get started | 3 |
get started on writing a book | 3 |
get started in the music industry | 3 |
don get started t | 3 |
get started in the music business | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "get started"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | päästä alkuun. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | se remettre en route, mettre en marche, démarrer (get away, get off), commencer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etgay artedstay приступать (approach, enter on). (various references) atarmak (get started (about cooking)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-r-s-t-t-t" | |
-2 letters: attested, attester, gestated, greatest, restaged, restated, retasted, targeted, tattered. | |
-3 letters: dearest, derates, dragees, ergates, estated, estreat, gestate, getters, greased, redates, restage, restate, retaste, sedater, started, stetted, stretta, strette, targets, tartest, tatters, testate, tetrads, tetters, treated. | |
-4 letters: agreed, agrees, aretes, attest, daters, derate, derats, desert, deters, detest, dragee, eagers, eagres, easter, eaters, edgers, egesta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-r-s-t-t-t" | |
+4 letters: interdigitates. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 74      53 74 61 72 74 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01010011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01110100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e t   S t a r t e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 0074      0053 0074 0061 0072 0074 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)417186253866784867170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Speeches | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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