start
- {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} nounADJECTIVE▪ auspicious, bright (esp. BrE), decent, encouraging, excellent, fine, flying, good, great, impressive, promising, sound, strong, wonderful▪
Despite a promising start, we lost the game.
▪ bad, disappointing, disastrous, poor, rocky, shaky, slow, sluggish, uncertain▪ running (esp. AmE), standing (both often figurative)▪The space project went from a standing start to the moon in ten years.
▪ false▪After a couple of false starts, she found the job that suited her.
▪ head (usually figurative)▪All parents want to give their kids a head start in life.
▪ fresh, new▪ early, late▪ very▪right from the very start
VERB + START▪ make▪I think it's time we made a start.
▪ get off to▪The company got off to an impressive start this year.
▪ herald (esp. BrE), mark, signalSTART + NOUN▪ date, time▪ button, menu (computing), signal▪I clicked the icon in the start menu.
▪ line, point, position▪The runners walked up to the start line.
▪Push through your heels to return to the start position.
PREPOSITION▪ at the start (of)▪Everyone was in a conciliatory mood at the start of the meeting.
▪ from the start▪She felt at home in her new job right from the start.
▪ prior to the start▪He joined the team prior to the start of the season.
▪ start to▪The fine winter weather heralded a good start to the year.
▪ start in▪Moving to a good school gave Sally a fresh start in life.
PHRASES▪ be doomed from the start▪The project was doomed from the start.
▪ from start to finish▪{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}}This is a thoroughly good book from start to finish.
verbADVERB▪ suddenly▪Her heart suddenly started to race.
▪ immediately▪ just▪He has just started at school.
▪At that point I just started to hate the man.
▪ already▪ off, out▪We'll start off by doing some warm-up exercises.
▪ up▪She started up a conversation with the woman sitting next to her.
▪ again, all over again, over (AmE)▪We'll just have to start all over again.
VERB + START▪ decide to, expect to, hope to, intend to, plan to, want to▪ be due to, be expected to, be scheduled to, be supposed to▪Work is due to start this weekend.
▪ be ready to▪By early evening he was ready to start work.
▪ be about to, be going to▪A new term was about to start.
▪ had better, have to, need to▪You'd better start packing if you're to leave early tomorrow morning.
PREPOSITION▪ as▪It started as a hobby and grew from there.
▪ by▪Let's start by reviewing what we did last week.
▪ from▪Start from the beginning and tell me exactly what happened.
▪ on▪I've finished decorating the bathroom, so now I can start on the bedroom.
▪ with▪Let's start with this first piece of music.
PHRASES▪ get (sb/sth) started▪It's already late, so I think we should get started.
▪ a good, great, etc. place to start▪If you want to learn about frogs, this book is an excellent place to start.
▪ let's start▪ start from scratch▪I'll have to start again from scratch.
▪ time to start sth▪It's time to start thinking about next year.
Start is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ban, ↑bombardment, ↑campaign, ↑car, ↑career, ↑decade, ↑engine, ↑enquiry, ↑exam, ↑expedition, ↑festival, ↑fight, ↑fighting, ↑fire, ↑friendship, ↑idea, ↑letter, ↑meeting, ↑movie, ↑negotiation, ↑pain, ↑period, ↑plague, ↑process, ↑rain, ↑recession, ↑riot, ↑season, ↑semester, ↑shift, ↑siren, ↑story, ↑strike, ↑talk, ↑tear, ↑trail, ↑train, ↑trouble, ↑war, ↑work, ↑yearStart is used with these nouns as the object: ↑argument, ↑ascent, ↑band, ↑blaze, ↑blog, ↑bonfire, ↑brawl, ↑business, ↑campaign, ↑car, ↑career, ↑club, ↑collection, ↑college, ↑company, ↑construction, ↑conversation, ↑council, ↑craze, ↑crusade, ↑cycle, ↑day, ↑debate, ↑deliberation, ↑descent, ↑dialogue, ↑diet, ↑discussion, ↑engine, ↑enquiry, ↑enterprise, ↑evening, ↑family, ↑farm, ↑fashion, ↑feud, ↑fight, ↑fire, ↑firm, ↑foundation, ↑fund, ↑grade, ↑group, ↑high school, ↑hobby, ↑ignition, ↑industrial action, ↑initiative, ↑job, ↑kindergarten, ↑league, ↑lesson, ↑life, ↑machine, ↑magazine, ↑meeting, ↑mess, ↑motor, ↑movement, ↑negotiation, ↑paragraph, ↑period, ↑petition, ↑phase, ↑playgroup, ↑practice, ↑preparation, ↑proceedings, ↑process, ↑production, ↑programme, ↑project, ↑reaction, ↑rebellion, ↑regime, ↑regimen, ↑restaurant, ↑revolution, ↑riot, ↑romance, ↑round, ↑rout, ↑routine, ↑rumour, ↑scheme, ↑school, ↑search, ↑season, ↑session, ↑smoking, ↑society, ↑stint, ↑strike, ↑talk, ↑tape, ↑task, ↑thread, ↑tradition, ↑trend, ↑trouble, ↑venture, ↑war, ↑work
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