Definition/Meaning of start

• English - Noun: start (plural starts) The beginning of an activity. The movie was entertaining from start to finish. 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]: I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, /…
• English - Verb: start (third-person singular simple present starts, present participle starting, simple past and past participle started) (ergative) To begin , commence , initiate .: To set in motion . to start a stream of water; to start a rumour; to start a business April 2, 1716, Joseph Addison, Freeholder No. 30 I was some years ago engaged in conversation with a fashionable French Abbe, upon a subject…
• English - Adverb: start (comparative more start, superlative most start) (archaic, dialectal) Completely , utterly . 1828 August 22, “Militia System”, in The New England Farmer, volume VII, Boston, M.A.: John B. Russell, published 1829, page 40, column 1: 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…
• English - Anagrams: tarts
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English stert , from the verb sterten (“to start, startle”). See below. Etymology 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,…