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Starting Post

Definition: Starting Post

Starting Post

Noun

1. A post marking the starting point of a race (especially a horse race).

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


Synonyms within Context: Starting Post

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Departure

Starting point, starting post; point of departure, point of embarkation, place of departure, place of embarkation; port of embarkation; airport, take-off point, taxiing runway, runway, launching pad, spaceport.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: Starting Post

Language Translations for "starting post"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shtyllë nisjes. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

стълб на старт. (various references)

   

Czech

  

start (blastoff, start, take off, takeoff). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

lähtöviiva. (various references)

   

German

  

start (activation, blastoff, boot, departure, kickoff, launch, lift off, liftoff, opening, runway, shot, start, starting, starting grid, starting line, take off, takeoff). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αφετηρία (starting point). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rajtzóna. (various references)

   

Manx

  

post toshee (advanced post). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

artingstay ostpay

   

Romanian

  

punct de plecare (go off, jumping-off place, starting point). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

стартовый столб (starting-post). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

polazni stub. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Starting Post

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-o-p-r-s-s-t-t-t"

-2 letters: protistans.

-3 letters: assorting, organists, pastoring, protistan, strontias.

-4 letters: agonists, airposts, arsonist, assignor, atropins, gastrins, organist, partings, patriots, pingrass, postings, prosaist, protasis, protists, ringtoss, roasting, rotating, signoras, signpost, soarings, spatting, spirants, sporting, spotting, starting, stations, strontia, tattings, titrants, toasting, transits, trotting.

-5 letters: agonist, airpost, antipot, aorists, aristos, aroints, artists, atropin, attorns, gaposis, gastrin, gitanos, gratins.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-o-p-r-s-s-t-t-t"
 

+5 letters: prestidigitations.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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