start

名词 n. 动词 v. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /stɑːt/    美 /stɑɹt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An instance of starting.
  2. A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
  3. The beginning of an activity.
    — The movie was entertaining from start to finish.
  4. A sudden involuntary movement.
    — He woke with a start.
  5. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
    — The fall of water is 6 feet, and the radius of the curve is 8 feet, from the centre of the water-wheel to the extreme point of the start.
  6. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
    — ... horses, a number of men who seemed to acquire strength as the necessity for it increased, applied their shoulders to the starts, or shafts of the gin, and worked it with extraordinary speed. By twelve o'clock, thirty-two[…]
  7. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
    — Captured pieces are returned to the start of the board.
  8. An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
    — Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.
  9. A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
    — You generally see nursery starts at garden centres in mid to late spring. Small annual plants are generally sold in four-packs or larger packs, with each cell holding a single young plant.
  10. An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
    — to get, or have, the start
  11. A happening or proceeding. UK,archaic,slang
    — “It's a rum start, old John Madingley's coming down to Tunnleton,” said Grafton, one evening in the smoking-room; […]
  12. Alternative letter-case form of Start (“a typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option”) alt-of
动词 v.
  1. To begin, commence, initiate.; To set in motion. ergative
    — to start a stream of water; to start a rumour; to start a business
  2. To begin, commence, initiate.; To begin. ergative
    — The President fired the gun to start the footrace.
  3. To begin, commence, initiate.; To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine. ergative
    — to start the engine
  4. To begin, commence, initiate.; To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion). ergative
  5. To begin, commence, initiate.; To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent. ergative
    — Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start.
  6. To have its origin (at), begin. intransitive
    — The speed limit is 50 km/h, starting at the edge of town.
  7. To move suddenly, from a previous state of rest; to startle.; To jerk, jump up, flinch, or draw back in surprise. intransitive
    — But if he start, It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.
  8. To move suddenly, from a previous state of rest; to startle.; To awaken suddenly. intransitive
    — I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed; [...]
  9. To move suddenly, from a previous state of rest; to startle.; To disturb and set in motion; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee. transitive
    — The hounds started a fox.
  10. To move suddenly, from a previous state of rest; to startle.; To come loose, to break free of a firmly set position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate. ergative
    — the storm started the bolts in the vessel
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  11. To put into play. transitive
    — The charge against Zagallo then is not so much that he started Ronaldo, but that when it should surely have been clear that the player was in no fit state to take part he kept him on.
  12. To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from. transitive
    — to start a water cask
  13. To begin one's menstrual cycle. euphemistic,intransitive
    — Have you started yet?
副词 adv.
  1. Completely, utterly. archaic,dialectal
    — Col.—The age has no sense—the people are start mad—as mad as a March mare. We should have fine times, indeed if our laws did'nt compel the poor people to protect the property of the rich.

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
begin
反义词
stop end cease finish conclude complete
衍生词
alpine start black start blackstart by fits and starts by starts and leaps cold start Delaware start down start false start flying start for a start forestart fresh start a standing start start to finish the start headstart hill start jackrabbit start jumpstart kickstart mass start multi-start night start one-start prestart pull start quality start quickstart recoil start rolling start running start shotgun start sleep start standing start startbox start codon startful startish start key startline startness start page startscum start time startup startword stop-start tostart two-start unstart upstart warm start whitestart autostart bump-start deadstart kick start outstart push-start restart astart get in the boat and start rowing misstart never start a land war in Asia self-starting startable start a family start afresh start a fresh hare start a hare start a hare running start and park start back start back in start back on starter start from where you are start in starting post start in on start into start on at start over start the ball rolling start-up start up on start with a clean sheet start with a clean sheet of paper start with a clean slate to start with unstarted when the looting starts, the shooting starts clubstart redstart

词源

词源 1
From Middle English stert, from the verb sterten (“to start, startle”). See below.
词源 2
From Middle English sterten (“to leap up suddenly, rush out”), from Old English styrtan (“to leap up, start”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturtijan (“to startle, move, set in motion”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter- (“to be stiff”). Cognate with Old Frisian stirta (“to fall down, tumble”), Middle Dutch sterten (“to rush, fall, collapse”) (Dutch storten), Old High German sturzen (“to hurl, plunge, turn upside down”) (German stürzen), Old High German sterzan (“to be stiff, protrude”). More at stare.
词源 3
From Middle English stert, start (“tail, handle, projection”), from Old English steort (“tail”), from Proto-West Germanic *stert, from Proto-Germanic *stertaz (“tail”). Cognate with Scots start, stairt (“side post, shaft, upright post”), Dutch staart (“tail”), German Sterz (“tail, handle”), Danish stjert (“tail of a bird”), Faroese stertur (“tail”), Icelandic stertur (“short horse tail”), Norn skjårt (“tail”), sterti (“tail of a large fish”), stjårt (“tail of a large fish”), Norwegian stjert (“tail of a bird”), Swedish stjärt (“tail, arse”).
词源 4
Variant of stark.
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