start
/stɑɹt/ noun C2- An instance of starting.
Plural starts
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- start back To begin a return trip to a starting point.
- start in To begin (to do something); to get started.
- start into To begin to eat.
- start off To begin.
- start on To criticize.
- start out To emerge suddenly; to jump out.
- start over to begin again; to return to the beginning
- start up To rise suddenly.
From the library
“When shall we start?” asked the Scarecrow.
Barry wished to go and return the same day, it was necessary to make a very early start.
Couldn’t we start out and scout the country before the fellow gets away?”
Morrel, all the forms were got over; in a word I was, as I told you, at my marriage feast; and I should have been married in an hour, and tomorrow I intended to start for Paris, had I not been arrested on this charge which you as well as I now see to be unjust.”
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