First Step

Definition: First Step

First Step

Noun

1. The first of a series of actions; "he memorized all the important chess openings".

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

Synonyms: First Step

Beginning

Handsel; take the first step, lay the first stone, cut the first turf; break ground, break the ice, break cover; pass the Rubicon, cross the Rubicon; open fire, open the ball; ventilate, air; undertake.

Crosswords: First Step

Oh Lisa, trying is just the first step toward failure. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Knowing there's a trap is the first step in evading itthe first step along the Golden Path. (Children of Dune; writing credit: Frank Herbert; John Harrison)

For a critic that first step is the first printed joke. (Please Don't Eat the Daisies; writing credit: Jean Kerr; Isobel Lennart)

The first step to being noticed is being mentioned. (Phone Booth; writing credit: Larry Cohen)

Somehow, somewhere a door had opened and I had taken the first step into what I can only call a state of grace. (State of Grace; writing credit: Nelu Ghiran; Julian Fikus)

Hollywood Extra: The First Step (1936)

Admiral Dewey's First Step on American Shore (1899)

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Books

• Koi Appreciation: The First Step (reference)

• Edgar Cayce's Guide to Colon Care: The First Step to Vibrant Health (reference)

• Euthenics: The Science of Controllable Environment: A Plea for Better Conditions As a First Step Toward Higher Human Efficiency (reference)

• The Girlfriends' Guide to Toddlers: A Survival Manual to the 'Terrible Twos' (And Ones and Threes) from the First Step, the First Potty and the First (reference)

• The Business Plan: First Step to Success: A Step-By-Step Approach to Preparing a Business Plan for the Small Manufacturer or Retailer (reference)

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Laboratory research is often the first step in finding ways to prevent and treat eye disease.Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health.

How U.S. movies are made. First step in set construction is artist's sketch.Credit: Library of Congress.

First step in packing carrots is to move them from truck to washing conveyor. Elsa, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress.

The first step in the making of Kenyon's johnnycake flour. Removing the corn from the cob. Usquepaugh, Rhode Island.Credit: Library of Congress.

A granite millstone crushes the olives which have first been washed and warmed. This is the first step in making olive oil. Lindsay, California.Credit: Library of Congress.

A first step in the fight against hunger and injustice : fast for a world harvest, Nov. 17.Credit: Library of Congress.

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We have seen above, that the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling as to win the battle of democracy. (reference)

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As a first step, the whole system of society is to be torn down, and built up anew.

This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven.

The first step in the direction of truth is to understand the frame and scope of the intellect itself, to comprehend the act itself of intellection.

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Health

Relieving pain is the first step in treating chronic pancreatitis. (references)

The new classification scheme is an important first step in the standardization process. (references)

Prompt and proper diagnosis of sleep apnea is an important first step to treating the disorder. (references)

Business

Under NAFTA, the first step in dispute settlement is consultations. (references)

The move is the first step in a wide-ranging series to foster software development and exports. (references)

The first step along this path was taken with the opening of pipelines to Chile and has been followed with export pipelines to Uruguay and Brazil. (references)

Children

Angola

The Government considers its registration program to be a first step in addressing the number of homeless children. (references)

Civil Liberties

Spain

This assistance is available from the first step in the process through any appeals of unfavorable decisions. (references)

Economic History

Czech Rep

The most important first step is finding a local partner. (references)

Human Rights

Japan

Confession is regarded as the first step in the rehabilitative process. (references)

Haiti

On June 11, in a first step towards public accountability of the judicial system, the Ministry of Justice opened an officer where persons could file complaints against judges. (references)

Chile

On October 8, a Chilean judge ordered the preventive arrest of four retired generals and a civilian as a first step in processing their extradition for their role in the 1974 car bombing in Buenos Aires that killed former Chilean army chief Carlos Prats and his wife Sofia Cuthbert. (references)

Indigenous People

Guatemala

Some observers criticized the event as a farce, while others described it as an important first step toward reconciliation. (references)

Political Economy

EGYPT

Official valuations of the four large state-owned insurance companies as a first step to privatization were completed in mid-2001. (references)

TAIWAN

This law marks an important first step towards open, fair competition in Taiwan's multi-billion dollar market for public procurement projects. (references)

Trade

Italy

As an overview, the first step in the export licensing process is to determine whether a product requires a general or validated license. (references)

Armenia

Four initial commercial loans mark the first step in Lincy's program to foster the development of small and medium size enterprises in Armenia. (references)

Peru

On April 16, 1998, the Andean Community signed a framework agreement with Mercosur as the first step toward building a South American free trade zone. (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.

Chinese 

第一步 (step one). (various references)

French

premier pas. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

第一歩 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

� いいっぽ. (various references)

Pig Latin

irstfay epstay

Turkish

ilk adım (approach, initiative, toe-hold). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: presifts, spitters, tipsters.

-2 letters: esprits, fitters, persist, presift, priests, resifts, sifters, sitters, spitter, spriest, sprites, stirpes, strifes, stripes, tipster, titfers.

-3 letters: esprit, feists, firsts, fitter, frises, fritts, pisser, pistes, prests, priest, prises, refits, resift, resist, rifest, ripest, serifs, sifter, sister, sitter, speirs, spiers, spires, spirts, spites, sprite, sprits, stipes, stirps, streps, strife, stripe.

+2 letters: shipfitters.

+3 letters: spendthrifts.

+5 letters: perfectionists, superfetations.

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