Start Up

Definition: Start Up

Start Up

Verb

1. Get going or set in motion; "We simply could not start the engine".

2. Get off the ground; "Who started this company?" "We embarked on an exciting enterprise"; "I start my day with a good breakfast"; "We began the new semester": "The afternoon session begins at 4 PM"; "The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack".

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

Synonyms: Start Up

Ascent

Verb: ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; float up; bubble up; aspire.

Convexity

Verb: be prominent; Adjective: project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge, bunch; jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out; stick up, bristle up, start up, shoot up; swell over, hang over, bend over; beetle.

Crosswords: Start Up

Maybe I finally found it, way down here in the mud. Maybe from down here I can start up again, be something I can be proud of, without having to fake it, be a fake human being (Platoon; writing credit: Oliver Stone)

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

Books

• Your Own Business in Europe: How to Branch Out or Start Up a New Business in Europe (reference)

• Start Your Own Coin Operated Laundry (Entrepreneur Magazine's Start Up) (reference)

• Start Up and Stay Up! (reference)

• Qualifications Start Ups & Tryouts of Injection Molds: How to Start Up New Tooling, How to Keep Tools Optimized, How to Qualify New Tooling (reference)

• New Beginnings: A Pastorate Start Up Workbook (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Jane Fonda: Start Up (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Supplies Start Up Kit Standard Media F N2135 (reference)

• Business Start Up Guide 2.0 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Mr. Bosley of Bosley reorganization unit, Baca County, Colorado, getting ready to start up the milk separator. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

Symptoms often start up again, however, when it is stopped. (references)

Business

Saigon Postel is in a similar start up situation. (references)

Some franchise operations in Greece were started on the initiative of Greeks who walked into an outlet in the U.S. or elsewhere, were attracted by the concept and obtained the rights to start up the system in Greece. (references)

One of the difficulties faced by people who have owned a business in the U.S. and have tried to start something similar in Greece, is that they are usually not aware how much longer the start up procedures take in Greece. (references)

Children

Peru

Some private companies have initiated programs to hire and train persons with disabilities, and a private foundation provides small loans to persons with disabilities to start up businesses. (references)

Economic History

Senegal

Officials particularly hope mining activities of the Sabadola mine in eastern Senegal, with proven reserves of 13 tons, could start up again. (references)

Brazil

This increase is explained by expansion of franchising as a business concept, since franchising involves lower risks for new start up companies. (references)

Trade

Egypt

Small investors who lack the right business connections and collateral required by banks find it difficult to start up small-and medium-size projects in Egypt. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "start up": start up a fire ♦ start up again ♦ start up memories ♦ To start up ♦ to start up after damping down. Additional references.

Albanian

brof (spring), çohem (rise, stand up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قفز (bound, flier, gambol, glove, hop, jump, jump out, leap, leapfrog, leaping, leapt, lope, pop, skip, spring, vault), ‏وثب (bounce, bound, clear, dance, gambol, rebound, skip, skipping, spring, vault), ‏أدار محركا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

започвам (begin, come in, commence, enter, enter on, fall to, get under way, handsel, initiate, institute, jump off, kick off, lead, lead off, open, preface, premise, roll, set in, set out on, set up, settle in, start off, take off, tee off, teethe, trigger), запалвам (enthuse, fire, have a smoke, ignite, kick over, kindle, light, light up, start, turn on, warm), пускам (admit, bleed, cast off, course, discharge, dismiss, drive, drop, float, fly, give off, grow, issue, let, let fall, let go, let loose, mail, play, push out, put forth, put on, put out, release, rip out, run, send forth, slip, start, throw in, turn out, uncork, unhand, unleash), пораждам се (stir), пораждам (beget, breed, call forth, cause, engender, evoke, gender, generate, give birth, give rise to, give to rise, originate, produce, prompt, provoke, raise, sow, stir). (various references)

Czech

založit (base, begin, constitute, establish, file, float, found, ground, institute, launch, mislay, plant, set up, start, wedge), uvést v chod (start), otevřít (begin, inaugurate, open, start, throw, unbar, unbolt, unclose, uncork, undo, unlock, unseal), nastartovat (crank, start). (various references)

Danish

selskab,der begynder driften (start up firm, starting-up firm), turbinevarmstart (hot start up of a thermal generating set). (various references)

Dutch

op gang brengen (put on, start, switch on, turn on), in gang zetten (put into motion, set to work, setting-up, set-up, start), aanzetten (abet, activate, attach, fan, fire, fur, inspire, put on, put onto, sew, sew on, sharpen, start, stimulate, stir up, switch on, swotch on, turn on, urge), aanlopen (foul, start, starting, start-up, striking, warming-in), aan de gang zetten (put into motion, set to work, start), aan de gang brengen (put into motion, set to work, start). (various references)

Finnish

kavahtaa (shrink back), hypähtää pystyyn (jump to one's feet). (various references)

French

mettre en marche (get started, start). (various references)

German

in betrieb setzen (operate, to put into operation), anlassen (leave burning, leave on, leave running, start), anfahren (approach, deliver, drive up, hit, jump at, jump on, pull up, put in at, round on, run down, run into, sail into, shout at, snub, stop at). (various references)

Greek 

ξαφνίαζομαι. (various references)

Hebrew 

�"פעל�" (activation, implementation, operation, setting in motion). (various references)

Hungarian

megindul (move, to come into action, to get going, to start up), beindít (to restart, to set sg afloat, to start, to start up). (various references)

Italian

nascere (arise, be born, be due, come, come up, derive, grow, originate, rise, spring up, sprout), incamminarsi (set out), decollare (decollate, lift off, running, start, take off, to launch), avviare (begin, direct, initiate, prime, set, set out, set up, start, switch on), attivare (activate, actuate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

飛び立つ (to fly away, to jump up, to leap to one's feet, to start up, to take off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

とびたつ (to fly away, to jump up, to leap to one's feet, to start up, to take off). (various references)

Pig Latin

artstay upay.(various references)

Portuguese

empresa que inicia a sua actividade (start up firm, starting-up firm), arranque a quente de um grupo termoeléctrico (hot start up of a thermal generating set). (various references)

Romanian

se ridica brusc (spring up), apãrea brusc. (various references)

Russian 

вскочить (jump), возникать (arise, arisen, arises, arose, come into being, come into existence, come up, emerge, emerging, pullulate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

upaliti (ignite, light, switch on, turn on), pokrenuti (float, initiate, move, propel, restart, set in motion), pojaviti se (appear, crop up, shape, show up, turn out, turn up), iskrsnuti (appear, come up, crop up, emerge, turn up). (various references)

Spanish

sobresaltarse (boggle, jump), decolar (running, start, take off, to launch), comenzar (begin, come on, commence, dawn, enter on, inchoate, initiate, institute, kick off, launch, lead off, light, open, open up, start, starting, take to, take up, turn to). (various references)

Swedish

sätta i gång (float, get smth. going, go ahead, inaugurate, initiate, launch, launch out, open, operate, play, put on, set to), uppstart (boot up, bootup, starters, start-up), uppkomma (arise, originate), dra på (open up). (various references)

Turkish

sıçramak (bounce, bound, buck, capriole, cavort, gambol, hop, jerk, jink, jump, leap, leap up, skip, skitter, spatter, splash, splatter, splutter, spring, sputter, squirt, take off, vault), fırlamak (bolt, boom, bounce, break, burst, dart, dash, dodge, fling, flirt, fly off, fly out, goggle, high-tail, hurl oneself, hurtle, jump, leap up, make a dash, shoot, shoot ahead, shoot off, shoot out, shoot up, skyrocket, soar, spring, stand out, start, steepen, tear, whip, whisk, zoom), ayağa fırlamak, çalıştırmak (actuate, drill, drive, employ, exercise, have smb. on the payroll, make smth. work, make things hum, operate, power, put on, run, set to work, start, switch on, task), çalışmak (aim, aim at, behave, catch, endeavor, endeavour, fire, function, labor, labour, operate, practice, practise, serve, start, struggle, study, try, work). (various references)

Ukrainian

схоплюватися (spring, strike up). (various references)

exiliens, exilierunt, exilivit. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: startup, upstart.

-2 letters: parts, prats, praus, pruta, putts, sprat, spurt, sputa, start, strap, strut, stupa, sturt, supra, sutra, sutta, tarps, tarts, tauts, traps, trapt, trust, turps.

-3 letters: arts, pars, part, past, pats, prat, prau, purs, puts, putt, raps, rapt, rasp, rats, rust, ruts, spar, spat, spur, star, stat, sura, taps, tarp, tars, tart, tats, taus.

+1 letter: startups, upstarts, upstater.

+2 letters: abruptest, trapuntos, upstarted, upstaters.

+3 letters: autotrophs, mouthparts, plutocrats, postpartum, postulator, stipulator, superstate, upstarting, waterspout.

+4 letters: naturopaths, parachutist, parturients, perpetuates, petrolatums, pituitaries, platterfuls, plattersful, postulators, punctuators, reputations, spiritualty, stipulators, stipulatory, superfatted, supernatant, superstates, superstrata, suprematist, vituperates, waterspouts.

+5 letters: apiculturist, appurtenants, autotrophies, counterparts, parachutists, particulates, parturitions, permutations, perpetuators, portmanteaus, portraitures, postfracture, postgraduate, spiritualist, spirituality, stepdaughter, subtemperate, superathlete, supernatants, superpatriot, superstation, superstratum, suprematists, temperatures, therapeutics, triumphalist, vituperators.