Start

Definition: Start

Start

Noun

1. The beginning of anything; "it was off to a good start".

2. The time at which something begins; "They got an early start".

3. A turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning); "he got his start because one of the regular pitchers was in the hospital"; "his starting meant that the coach thought he was one of their best linemen".

4. A sudden involuntary movement: "he awoke with a start".

5. The act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations".

6. A line indicating the location of the start of a race.

7. A signal to begin (as in a race); "the starting signal was a green light"; "the runners awaited the start".

8. Advantage gained by an early start as in a race: "with an hour's start he will be hard to catch".

Verb

1. Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action: "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?" "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day".

2. Set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life".

3. Leave; "The family took off for Florida".

4. Have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense: "The DMZ begins right over the hill"; "The second movement begins after the Allegro"; "Prices for these homes start at $250,000".

5. Bring into being; "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation".

6. 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".

7. Move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room".

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

9. Begin or set in motion; "I start at eight in the morning"; "Ready, set, go!".

10. : begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job; "Take up a position"; "start a new job".

11. : play in the starting line-up, in team sports.

12. : have a beginning characterized in some specified way; "The novel begins with a murder"; "My property begins with the three maple trees"; "Her day begins with a work-out"; "The semester begins with a convocation ceremony".

13. : begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object; "begin a cigar"; "She started the soup while it was still hot"; "We started physics in 10th grade".

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

Date "start" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Public Administration

Slang in 1811

Sports & Leisure

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

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

Synonyms: Start

Beginning

Verb: begin, start, commence; conceive, open, dawn, set in, take its rise, enter upon, enter; set out; (depart); embark in; incept.

Origin; (cause); source, rise; bud, germ; egg, rudiment; genesis, primogenesis, birth, nativity, cradle, infancy; start, inception, creation, starting point; dawn; (morning); evolution.

Departure

Verb: depart; go away; take one's departure, set out; set off, march off, put off, start off, be off, move off, get off, whip off, pack off, go off, take oneself off; start, issue, march out, debouch; go forth, sally forth; sally, set forward; be gone; hail from.

Noun: departure, decession, decampment; embarkation; outset, start; removal; exit; (egress); exodus, hejira, flight.

Deterioration

Run to seed, go to seed, run to waste swale, sweal; lapse, be the worse for; sphacelate: break, break down; spring a leak, crack, start; shrivel; (contract); fade, go off, wither, molder, rot, rankle, decay, go bad; go to decay, fall into decay; " fall into the sear and yellow leaf", rust, crumble, shake; totter, totter to its fall; perish; die.

Eventuality

Verb: happen, occur; take place, take effect; come, become of; come off, comeabout, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be on foot, fall in; befall, betide, bechance; prove, eventuate, draw on; turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up; supervene, survene; issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course; pass off; (be past).

Fear

Hesitate; (be irresolute); falter, funk, cower, crouch; skulk; (cowardice); let " I dare not" wait upon "I would "; take fright, take alarm; start, wince, flinch, shy, shrink; fly; (avoid).

Impulse

Verb: give an impetus; Noun: impel, push; start, give a start to, set going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, foin; cant; elbow, shoulder, jostle, justle, hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter; run against, bump against, butt against; knock one's head against, run one's head against; impinge; boost; bunt, carom, clip y; fan, fan out; jab, plug.

Inexpectation

Verb: not expect; be taken by surprise; start; miscalculate; not bargain for; come upon, fall upon.

Surprise, sudden burst, thunderclap, blow, shock, start; bolt out of the blue; wonder; eye opener.

Leap

Verb: leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp, cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole; foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk; (amusement); jump about; (agitation); trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.

Offer

Verb: offer, proffer, present, tender; bid; propose, move; make a motion, make advances; start; invite, hold out, place in one's way, put forward.

Regression

Put in motion, set in motion; set agoing, start; give a start, give an impulse to; impel; trundle; (set in rotation); expel.

Revolution

Jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience; explosion; spasm, convulsion, throe, revulsion; storm, earthquake, cataclysm.

Supposition

Put forth; propound, propose; start, put a case, submit, move, make a motion; hazard out, throw out a suggestion, put forward a suggestion, put forward conjecture.

Crosswords: Start

Albanian (jumping-off, Mark, offset, post, start), Czech (blastoff, start, starting post, take off, takeoff), German (activation, blastoff, boot, departure, kickoff, launch, lift off, liftoff, opening, runway, shot, start, starting, starting grid, starting line, starting post, take off, takeoff), Hungarian (start), Portuguese (START), Romanian (start), Serbo-Croatian (scratch, start), Swedish (get away, get-away, inception, launch, lift off, post, start, takeoff), Turkish (sendoff, start, take off).

Everything dead on earth, except us. A chance for Mother Nature to start again (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start. All that we're asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known terrorist to justice (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.)

Please, don't start that again (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

I could never go through with it. I'd start laughing or something (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.)

Talking pictures, that means I'm out of a job. At last I can start suffering and write that symphony (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

If you start me up I'll never stop (START ME UP; performing artist: Rolling Stones)

Then I start feeling a little peculiar (What's up; performing artist: 4 Non Blondes)

Can we start again (I Don't Wanna; performing artist: Aaliyah)

To start again, take another breath (Fly Away From Here; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Cause now you've made a fire start (Even The Nights Are Better; performing artist: Air Supply)

Do not start with me. You will not win. (references; author: unknown)

Ever stop to think and forget to start again? (references; author: unknown)

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. (references; author: unknown)

If you want breakfast in bed, then start sleeping in the kitchen. (references; author: unknown)

You could better start giving me mouth to mouth, because you just took my breath away! (references; author: unknown)

The Numbers Start with the River (1971)

I Start Counting (1969)

Start (1966)

Pierwszy start (1951)

Ved fjernsynets start (1951)

Start Off Each Day With A Song (performing artist: Jimmy Durante)

Start Me Up (performing artist: Rolling Stones)

Start The Commotion (performing artist: The Wiseguys)

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

Books

• Smart Start! Grade 3: Comprehensive Strategies and Applications for English Language Ares (reference)

• Easy Start in Arithmetic: Grades K-3 (reference)

• Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) (reference)

• Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know (reference)

• 8 Minutes in the Morning: A Simple Way to Start Your Day That Burns Fat and Sheds the Pounds (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• New Start (reference)

• Start (reference)

• Start Up: Windhovers Review Of Emerging Medical Ventures (reference)

• Start Vision (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Tenchi in Tokyo, Vol. 1: A New Start (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Start Breaking My Heart (reference)

• Start Static (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Stanton SMX-211 DJ Mixer with Fader Start (reference)

• Head Start, Britannica (reference)

• Let's Start Learning (Jewel Case) (reference)

• DB2 Data Replication Start Kit (reference)

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

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

Consumer Goods

• Tupperware Fresh Start 4-Piece Salad Set (reference)

• Fein MSX-636-2START Multimaster Start (reference)

• YardMachines 8HP/ 26-inch Deluxe Two-Stage Wheel Snow Thrower with Electric Start (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

PET scans at the level of the basal ganglia of a normal control (1) case 1 at the start (2) and after treatment with AZT (3). In (1) there is a homogeneous pattern of glucose metabolism in the frontal, temporal and occipital cortex and in the subcortical grey matter. At the onset of treatment with AZT (2) there is a heterogeneous pattern of glucose metabolism with a relative reduction in the posterior temporal and occipital regions and the thalamus. Thirteen weeks after treatment with AZT, the abnormal pattern has partly resolved (3). All images are scaled from zero to 100% of the maximum activity within the slice (scale shown on right of figure). Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Six-step sequence of the death of a cancer cell. A cancer cell has migrated through the holes of a matrix coated membrane from the top to the bottom, simulating natural migration of a invading cancer cell between, and sometimes through, the vascular endothelium. Notice the spikes or pseudopodia that are characteristic of an invading cancer cell (1). A buffy coat containing red blood cells, lymphocytes and macrophages is added to the bottom of the membrane. A group of macrophages identify the cancer cell as foreign matter and start to stick to the cancer cell, which still has its spikes (2). Macrophages begin to fuse with, and inject its toxins into, the cancer cell. The cell starts rounding up and loses its spikes (3). As the macrophage cell becomes smooth (4). The cancer cell appears lumpy in the last stage before it dies. These lumps are actually the macrophages fused within the cancer cell (5). The cancer cell then loses its morphology, shrinks up and dies (6). Photo magnification: 1: x12,000; 2: x4,000; 3: x8,000; 4: x26,000; 5: x56,000; 6: x14,000. Credit: Susan Arnold (photographer).

The start of a mapping flight Cooperative use of a Navy Air Service float plane for photographic duty. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Start of the trail at the end of the road Heading into the Salmon River Canyon Reconnaissance party of Oscar Risvold. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Heading out to the Survey Launch #15 to start the day's work. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Time to start digging out the equipment covered by snow over the winter. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The floating cross at the mouth of the trap. Excluding the statuette of St. Peter, the patron saint of fishermen, which is traditionally always the same, each Rais places his own images of saints. The cross serves the functional purpose of helping the fishermen read the currents. Slack water is the most desirable time to start the fishing operation. Credit: Fisheries.

Woodstreet Bridge, Achushnet, MA. This shows the upper estuary and the start of the freshwater river. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

High school volunteers take donor plants to start a wetland nursery. Wetland nurseries are designed to create a source of native plants to be used in the Tampa Bay estuary. Native species are taken from a donor site, transplanted to nurseries established by local schools and are used in wetland restoration projects. Some nursery plants then become the donor stock for upcoming projects. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Estuaries are important areas for commercial and recreational boating activities . This fleet of sportfishing boats is heading out at the start of a fishing tournament. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To Mr. John Knightley was she indebted for her first idea on the subject, for the first start of its possibility

We will start as we did before, but not begin counting till our trains meet

This name, thus pronounced, at this dark hour, in this unknown place, by this unknown man, made Jean Valjean start back

It got so bad that they had only to look at each other to start over again

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

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

Sometimes, cysts become infected or suddenly start to bleed. (references)

Children and young teens start using marijuana for many reasons. (references)

Business

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

CS Osaka would like to suggest foreign suppliers start with small orders. (references)

While books are struggling in finding the way, music is off to a smoother start. (references)

Children

Swaziland

The public school system ends at grade 12. Children are required to start attending school at the age of 6 years. (references)

Djibouti

The number of classrooms for secondary students is inadequate, and only approximately 20 percent of children who start secondary school complete their education. (references)

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)

Civil Liberties

Equatorial Guinea

Nolasco Ndong discussed these incidents openly and filed an application to start another print publication. (references)

Kyrgyz Republic

In March after a year of government harassment, several editors and journalists left Vecherny Bishkek to start a new newspaper. (references)

Turkmenistan

After the start of international military operations in Afghanistan, the Government agreed to increase its cooperation with the UNHCR, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and other international refugee and relief agencies to assist refugees from Afghanistan. (references)

Economic History

Uzbekistan

Peace Corps also plans to start a program in health care. (references)

The Netherlands

The Netherlands proclaimed neutrality at the start of both world wars. (references)

The Bahamas

A good start has been made to mitigate crime and provide for social needs. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

Cases start over when an attorney changes. (references)

Pakistan

However, in many cases, trials do not start until 6 months after the filing of charges. (references)

Guatemala

In November press reports accused Dr. Julio Arango Escobar, the Ombudsman, of using official funds to start a political party. (references)

Indigenous People

Indonesia

Presidium vice chairman Tom Beanal recounted the Presidium's efforts since the Papuan Congress to start a dialog with Jakarta, and appealed for calm. (references)

Minorities

Bhutan

By December all the residents of the first camp had been interviewed, and the Bhutanese verification team went back to Thimpu pending the start of verification at the next camp. (references)

China

In April, immediately after the start of the "strike hard" campaign, 25 political activists in Kashgar prefecture were arrested for allegedly conspiring to set up an "Eastern Turkestan Republic." Charges ranged from "endangering state security" to "illegally setting up an organization," although human rights groups state that no specific act committed by the group was mentioned. (references)

Political Economy

HONG KONG

However, authorities generally resisted pressure for large-scale government expenditures to kick start the economy. (references)

Mexico

Moreover, Mexicans now have the right to observe the electoral process from start to finish with specific legal authority to report irregularities. (references)

ALGERIA

BNP Paribas is set to start operations in 2002. Citibank is growing fast, has opened a branch in Hassi Messaoud in the heart of the oil and gas fields, and will be moving soon to a new office building of its own. (references)

Political Rights

Mongolia

Cultural shows and other entertainment are prohibited during the election campaign period except at its start and end. (references)

Kenya

The new Commission is expected to have a draft constitution ready by October 2002. In July at the start of the CKRC hearings, the President declared that NGO's and churches should not involve themselves with the review process and should not engage in civic education. (references)

Trade

Tanzania

Advance payment of Income tax prior to start business has been abolished. (references)

Travel

Czech Rep

Start slowly by building a few good relationships. (references)

Botswana

Even carefully arranged meetings may sometimes start late. (references)

Ecuador

Meetings normally start somewhat after the appointed time. (references)

Worker Rights

Guinea

Apprentices may start to work at 14 years of age. (references)

Denmark

The law requires at least 11 hours between the end of one work period and the start of the next. (references)

India

It may start with consent and later become a matter of force and deception, or the victim may be kidnaped. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "start": a fresh start ♦ a rum start ♦ aborted start ♦ at a start ♦ at the start ♦ at the start of ♦ building start permit ♦ cast start ♦ catapult start ♦ earliest start ♦ earliest start date ♦ earliest start time ♦ false start ♦ fly start ♦ flying start ♦ for a start ♦ fresh start ♦ from start to finish ♦ from the start ♦ fron the start ♦ gain the start ♦ gain the start of ♦ get a start ♦ get off to a flying start ♦ get off to a good start ♦ get the start of smb. ♦ give a start ♦ give smb. a start ♦ have a head start on smb. ♦ have the start ♦ head start ♦ housing start ♦ it isn't your business to start with ♦ kick start ♦ make a fresh start ♦ make a start ♦ make an early start ♦ quick start ♦ racing start ♦ ready to start school ♦ running start ♦ since the start ♦ standing start ♦ start a baby ♦ start a business ♦ start a clock ♦ start a conversation ♦ start a fire ♦ start a hare ♦ start a paper ♦ start a rumour ♦ start afresh ♦ start after smb. ♦ start again ♦ start an engine ♦ start another hare ♦ start aside ♦ start at the beginning ♦ start at the wrong end ♦ start back ♦ start bit ♦ start burning ♦ start cell ♦ start college ♦ start column ♦ start dangle ♦ start disk ♦ start doing ♦ start early ♦ start field ♦ start flying ♦ start for ♦ start for school ♦ start forward ♦ start from scratch ♦ start from the scratch ♦ start game ♦ start green ♦ start impulse ♦ start in ♦ start inquiry ♦ start interval ♦ start investigation ♦ start moving ♦ start negotiations ♦ start Of Header ♦ start of heading ♦ start of heading character ♦ start of message ♦ start of play ♦ start Of Text ♦ start of the academic year ♦ start off ♦ start on ♦ start on a book ♦ start on a journey ♦ start on an undertaking ♦ start out ♦ start over ♦ start playing ♦ start point. Additional references.

Beginning with "start": start-aligned, start-border, start-cue, start-cues, Start-dodman, start-entered, start-eyed, start-finish, start-for, start-forward, start-holes, start-ii, start-line, start-mark, start-not, start-off, start-of-message signal, start-point, start-rite, start-shaped, start-stop, start-stop code, start-to-finish, start-to-stop, start-up, Start-up, start-ups, start-work, start-year, start-your-own-business.

Ending with "start": head-start, kick-start, low-start, quick-start, re-start, stop-start.

Afrikaans

instel (begin, commence), begin (begin, beginning, commence, commencement, does start), aanskakel (put, put on, switch, switch on, turn on). (various references)

Albanian

filloj (begin, come, commence, develop, embark, enter, fall into, fall on, fall to, get, get down, initiate, lead off, open, originate, rise, set about, set in, set to, set up, strike up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إستهل عملا, ‏بدأ (begin, begin on smth., commence, fall to, incept, initialize, initiate, institute, launch, lead, lead off, proceed, set, set about, set in, start off, tackle, take, take in, tee), ‏بداية (beginning, commencement, conception, inception, onset, opening, origination, outbreak, outset, starter, starting, threshold), ‏بداية العام الدراسي الجامع, ‏باشر عملا (embark), ‏شرع (begin, commence, fall to, legislate, proceed, set about, set upon, tackle, undertake), ‏شن (make, trigger), ‏أدار المحرك, ‏أنشأ (construct, cradle, evolve, fabricate, father, form, foster, found, founder, germinate, institute, nurture, organize, originate, plant, structure, work up), ‏بدء السباق, ‏إستهل (begin, commence, initialize, institute, launch, lead off, open, preface, set, strike up), ‏مطلع (acquainted, aware of, beginning, informed, introduction, knowing, onset, proem, sunrise), ‏إنخلع من مكانه, ‏إنطلاقة (spring, starter), ‏إنطلق (career, dash, get away, go, lick, pull away, push off, scud, set out, shove off, split, spout, spring, spurt, start off, start out, take out, tee off, waft), ‏إفتتح (inaugurate, initiate, strike up), ‏إفتتاح (inauguration, opening, setting up), ‏طفرة (caper, jump, leap, pounce, prance, rebound), ‏غادر (blow, depart, disloyal, false, feline, get carried away, go, hop, insidious, jump, leave, pop off, quit, ratty, retire, scram, skip, snaky, sneak, snide, traitorous, treacherous), ‏وثبة (dart, gamba, leap, leaping, onrush, pounce, prance, rebound, skip, vault), ‏مدخل (access, door, doorway, entrance, entry, entryway, gate, gateway, hallway, inlet, introduction, opening, preface, vestibule, way in), ‏إستناف الدراسة في بداية العام. (various references)

Aymara

qalltaña (to start). (various references)

Basque

hasten. (various references)

Breton

krogo (will start). (various references)

Bulgarian 

повдигам (boost, bring up, elevate, give a lift, heave, heft, increase, key up, levitate, lift, moot, pick up, prefer, present, pull up, raise, rear, take up, throw up, tip over, underlay, up, uplift, upraise), пускам в действие (bring into play), 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 up, throw in, turn out, uncork, unhand, unleash), преднина (lead, precedence), предимство (advantage, antecedence, asset, leg up, pas, plus, precedence, preference, priority, privilege, pull, right of way, score, vantage), привеждам в движение (actuate, gear, operate, power, propel), появявам се внезапно (break forth, burst, turn up), почване (inception, set out), почвам (begin, dawn, get going, go, go ahead, launch), добивам (acquire, assume, extract, fetch, get, mine, obtain, win), потеглям (drive off, pull off, set forth, set off, start off), запалване (ignition, inflammation, kindling, lighting), понечвам (make, offer), подкарвам (begin, compel, drive, herd on, punch, spur on, urge forward, whip up), подплашвам се (be scared, be startled), изходна точка (departure), изкарам (run off, rush up), излитане (blastoff, lift off, uprise), излитам (blast off, fly out, sweep up), изплашвам (alarm, frighten, rouse, scare, scarring, startle, stun, warn away), потегляне, тръгване (departure, going, outgo, parting), стряскане, стартиране (getaway), стартирам (give a start), старт (jump off, score), ставам причина за (occasion, prompt), скачам (bound, capriole, dance, jump, jump down, leap, prance, skip, spring, up), сменям рязко положението си, сепване (jump), пускане (discharge, issuance, issue, lift off, output, release, runout), слагам начало на (commence, originate, set on foot, start off), запалвам (enthuse, fire, have a smoke, ignite, kick over, kindle, light, light up, start up, turn on, warm), тръгвам (depart, drive off, get along, get going, get off, leave, pull away, pull off, put, put forth, sally, set forth, set off, set on, set out, shove off, wend, wend one's way), трепване (flick, jerk, jump, twitch, wince), трепвам (blench, flinch, jerk, quail, twitch, wince), карам (auto, cart, cause, drive, get along, have, impel, keep, lead, make, move, oar, occasion, pilot, propel, render, roll along, run, sail, serve, set, set off, urge on, wheel), основавам (base, bottom, charter, establish, found, ground, institute, launch, organize, plant, promote, set up), отправям се (beetle, proceed, repair, sally, wend, wend one's way), начало (abc, basis, beginning, dawn, debut, forepart, genesis, inception, incipience, infancy, initiation, kick off, lead off, offset, onset, opening, origin, origination, outset, prime, principle, proem, rise, rudiment, set out, source), залавям се за (attack, attempt, start in), създавам (beget, build up, create, devise, erect, establish, float, form, make, mother, originate, present, raise up, spawn, throw up, work), сепвам се (baulk, flinch). (various references)

Catalan

començar (begin, commence). (various references)

Chinese 

隆 (grand, intense, prosperous, sound of drums), 開辟 (open up), 開辦 (open, set up), 開端 (beginning), 開始 (begin, beginning, initial), 開動 (march, move, set in motion), 開 (open, operate), 开始 (Began, begin, Begun, Commence, Commenced, Commencement, Commencing, inaugurate, Inaugurated, Inaugurating, inception, started, starting, start-off), 創 (a wound, begin, create, cut, inaugurate, initiate, injury, trauma). (various references)

Czech

start (blastoff, starting post, take off, takeoff), vyjet (draw out), náskok, naèít (begin, broach, tap), nastartovat (crank, start up), odstartovat (blast off, lift off, start off), otevřít (begin, inaugurate, open, start up, throw, unbar, unbolt, unclose, uncork, undo, unlock, unseal), polekat (appal, frighten, scare, startle), rozbìh (heat), trhnutí (jerk, jolt, pluck, pull, recoil, wrench, yank), uvést v chod (start up), leknutí (fright, scare, shock), vydat se (give oneself up), založit (base, begin, constitute, establish, file, float, found, ground, institute, launch, mislay, plant, set up, start up, wedge), vyprovokovat, vyrazit (batter, break down, get off, imprint, set off, set out, smash down, smash in, spurt, stamp out, storm), vyskoèit (jump, jump out, jump up, spring up, whip up), vyvolat (bring, bring about, call, call forth, call up, cause, develop, draw, evoke, induce, initiate, invite, raise, stir), zaèátek (beginning, commencement, inception, onset), zaèít (begin, commence, embark on, fall to, give a start, go, go off, inaugurate, initiate, kick off, open, originate, take up), začátek, začít, zahájení (initiation, opening), zahájit (begin, commence, go off, handsel, inaugurate, Initialize, initiate, introduce, launch, lead off, preface), výhoda (advantage, amenity, benefit, boon, convenience, good, use, vantage). (various references)

Danish

begyndelse (beginning, commencement), begynde (begin, commence). (various references)

Dutch

aanzetten (abet, activate, attach, fan, fire, fur, inspire, put on, put onto, sew, sew on, sharpen, stimulate, stir up, switch on, swotch on, turn on, urge), op gang brengen (put on, switch on, turn on), activeren (activate, put on, swotch on, turn on), aanzetten tot (activate, put on, swotch on, turn on). (various references)

Esperanto

startigi, komenco (beginning, commencement), komenciĝo (beginning, commencement), komenciĝi (begin, commence), komenci (begin, commence), iniciati (initiate), ekveturi (depart, leave, sail), eksalti, eko (beginning, commencement, inception, opening, outset), eki (begin, come on, set in), ekfunkciigi (put on, switch on, turn on), aktivigi (put on, switch on, turn on). (various references)

Estonian

asume (let's start). (various references)