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Self-starter

Definitions: Self-starter

Self-starter

Noun

1. An energetic person with unusual initiative.

2. An electric starting motor that automatically starts an internal-combustion engine.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Commercial Usage: Self-starter

DomainTitle

Books

  • How to Quit Drugs - Including Alcohol: A Self-Starter (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Self-starter

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Buick Touring automobile equipped with a self-starter; June,11 1912; {03.000/15}.

Cranking Model "T" Ford before the days of the self-starter, Worthington, Ohio.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Self-starter

Language Translations for "self-starter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

自动起动装置. (various references)

   

Danish

  

startkontakt (button, control knob, push button, starter button, starter push button), startknap (button, control knob, push button, starter button, starter push button), selvstarter (starter), trykknap (button, control knob, control lever, handle, key, push button, push-button, starter button, starter push button), betjeningsknap (button, control knob, push button, starter button, starter push button). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

startdrukknop (button, control knob, push button, starter button, starter push button), automatische starter. (various references)

   

French

  

individu entreprenant, individu audacieux, démarreur automatique (self starter), démarreur, bouton-poussoir, bouton de démarrage, bouton de commande du démarreur. (various references)

   

German

  

Selbstanlasser (self starter), Schaltknopf (button, control button, control knob, knob, push button, selector, starter button, starter push button, switch), Druckknopf (button, control knob, press button, press stud, push button, push-button, snap, snap fastener, starter button, starter push button), Anlasserknopf (button, control knob, push button, starter button, starter push button), Anlass-Druckknopfschalter (button, control knob, push button, starter button, starter push button), Anlassdruckknopf (button, control knob, push button, starter button, starter push button). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κομβίο εκκινητή (button, control knob, push button, starter button, starter push button), αυτόματος εκκινητής, διακόπτης μίζας (button, control knob, push button, starter button, starter push button). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kezdeményezőképes ember, kezdeményező ember, automatikus indító, önindító (automatic starter, automotive starter, self starter, self-starting, starter motor). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pulsante per comando motorino avviamento (button, control knob, push button, starter button, starter push button), pulsante a mano comando motore d'avviamento (button, control knob, push button, starter button, starter push button), pulsante (button, control knob, control lever, handle, key, knob, pulsating, push button, push-button, starter button, starter push button, switch), dispositivo automatico d'avviamento, bottone di comando (button, control knob, push button, starter button, starter push button), avviatore automatico. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

セル付 (10^-2, a center, bottle cap, celery, cellophane tape, center, centering, centi-, centimeter, centre, ceremony, facility providing funeral services, good sense, Scotch tape, select, selection, selector, selenium, sensation, sensational, sensor, serenade, stopper, with a self-starter). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

セルつき (with a self-starter). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

자동 시동 장치. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elf-startersay

   

Portuguese

  

botão de arranque (button, control knob, kick up, push button, starter button, starter push button). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

стартер (starter), самопуск; разг. инициативный человек, самопуск, автоматический завод (self starter). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pulsador de puesta en marcha (button, control knob, push button, starter button, starter push button), pulsador (button, control knob, control lever, handle, key, push button, push-button, starter button, starter push button), puesta en marcha automático, interruptor-pulsador de arranque (button, control knob, push button, starter button, starter push button), botón de arranque (button, control knob, push button, starter button, starter push button), arrancador automático. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Self-starter

Misspellings

"Self-starter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: selfstarter. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Self-starter

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-l-r-r-s-s-t-t"

-1 letter: flatterers.

-2 letters: falterers, flatterer, startlers.

-3 letters: alertest, alterers, asserter, estreats, falterer, fearless, feasters, ferrates, flatters, fretless, fretters, rattlers, realters, reassert, reflates, relaters, reslates, restarts, restates, retastes, retreats, serrates, settlers, starlets, starters, startler, startles, stealers, sterlets, strafers, tearless, terrases, treaters, trestles.

-4 letters: afreets, alerter, alterer, arrests, artless, earless, easters, elaters, erasers, estates, estreat, falsest, falters.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Self-starter


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 6C 66 2D 73 74 61 72 74 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101101 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#108 &#102 &#45 &#115 &#116 &#97 &#114 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 0073 0074 0061 0072 0074 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

537178721585866784867184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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