Another word for begin
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Verb
To go about the initial step in doing (something)
- To deliberately begin to do (something):
- To pledge or commit oneself (to do something):
- To promise or guarantee:
- The act of taking or tightening up.
- A device for reducing slack or taking up lost motion, as one in a loom.
- To begin a movement, activity, or undertaking:
- To move on the initial part of a journey:
- To have a beginning; commence:
- A brief, usually heated conflict or argument.
- Affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed.
- Affording unobstructed passage or view:
- Having no protecting or concealing cover:
- To throw or propel with force; hurl:
- To set or thrust (a self-propelled craft or projectile) in motion:
- To put (a boat) into the water in readiness for use.
- To establish, organize, or introduce:
- To initiate; begin:
- To establish or invest (someone) in an office or position.
- To set going by taking the first step; begin:
- To introduce to a new field, interest, skill, or activity:
- To admit (someone) into membership, as with a ritual or ceremony.
- To induct into office by a formal ceremony.
- To cause to begin, especially officially or formally:
- To open or begin use of formally with a ceremony; dedicate:
- To come or go into:
- To penetrate; pierce:
- To introduce; insert:
- To cause to board a vessel or aircraft:
- To enlist (a person or persons) or invest (capital) in an enterprise.
- To go aboard a vessel or aircraft, as at the start of a journey.
- To begin; start.
- To enter upon or have a beginning; start.
- To come near or nearer, as in space or time:
- To make an approach, as in golf.
- To come or go near or nearer to:
See also:To come into being
- To begin a movement, activity, or undertaking:
- To move on the initial part of a journey:
- To have a beginning; commence:
- To bring into being; create or start:
- To come into being; start:
- To begin; start.
- To enter upon or have a beginning; start.
- To get up, as from a sitting or prone position; rise.
- To awaken and get up:
- To move upward; ascend.
See also:
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Another word for begin
Verb
To get under way
- (idiomatic) To begin gaining experience; To take a risk and try something new.
- (idiomatic) To get engaged
- (idiomatic) To start a new endeavor enthusiastically and wholeheartedly.
- (idiomatic) To start anything tumultuous.
- (idiomatic) To work together; to cooperate.
- (baseball, softball) An expression used at the beginning of a game of baseball.
- Alternative form of get the ball rolling.
- The commencement of a race or of a planned military attack.
- A jumping contest at a horse show, especially a final or tie-breaking round.
- (idiomatic)To start something with somebody else. Usually a conversation or relationship.
- (intransitive, idiomatic)To start something, usually playing live music.
- (figuratively) To strongly criticize or make a verbal attack, particularly as a response to previous criticism or provocation.
- To draw a line through some text such as a printed or written sentence, with the purpose of deleting that text from the rest of the document. The text so deleted may be completely obscured, or it may be deliberately left legible with the line through it so that readers can see that it was deliberately deleted.
- (intransitive, colloquial, figuratively) To fail; to be refused a request or to have a proposal not be accepted, in particular a request for a (hopefully romantic) date.
- (idiomatic) To start to get to know people, by avoiding awkwardness.
- (idiomatic) To introduce conversation.
- (idiomatic) To start hurrying to undertake a task.
- The equipment used in a particular activity, especially in fishing; gear.
- A system of ropes and blocks for raising and lowering weights of rigging and pulleys for applying tension.
- A rope and its pulley.
- (intransitive) To open.
- (intransitive) To reveal oneself; to become communicative.
- (intransitive) To commence firing weapons.
- One who ventures into unknown or unclaimed territory to settle.
- One who opens up new areas of thought, research, or development:
- A soldier who performs construction and demolition work in the field to facilitate troop movements.
- (idiomatic) To become the leader, to advance into first place.
- (idiomatic) To assume leadership over a group.
- To make necessary or unavoidable.
- To require or compel.
- Physical or mental effort or activity directed toward the production or accomplishment of something:
- Such effort or activity by which one makes a living; employment:
- A trade, profession, or other means of livelihood:
- To produce (offspring); give birth to or hatch.
- To bring about; engender:
- To cause to reproduce, especially by controlled mating and selection:
- To move to a higher position; elevate:
- To set in an upright or erect position:
- To erect or build:
- One thrown off from a burning substance.
- One resulting from friction.
- One remaining in an otherwise extinguished fire; an ember.
- The lever pressed by the finger to discharge a firearm.
- A similar device used to release or activate a mechanism.
- An event that precipitates other events.
- To ready something for use.
- Logically order.
- To cause to happen
- To cause (an institution, for example) to come into existence or begin operating; found; set up.
- To bring about; generate or effect:
- To place or settle in a secure position or condition:
- To establish or set up, especially with provision for continuing existence:
- To establish the foundation or basis of; base:
- To bring into being; create or start:
- To come into being; start:
- To present (someone) by name to another in order to establish an acquaintance.
- To present (a performer, for example) to the public for the first time.
- To make preliminary remarks about; preface:
- To result ultimately:
- To realize in action or make real:
- To describe or portray realistically.
- To become actual.
- To push, propel, or press onward forcibly; urge forward:
- To repulse or put to flight by force or influence:
- To guide, control, or direct (a vehicle).
- To bring into being; give rise to:
- To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process:
- To engender (offspring); procreate.
- To set in motion; make active or more active.
- To organize or create (a military unit, for example):
- To treat (sewage) with aeration and bacteria to aid decomposition.
- Permission to proceed:
- Energetic assertiveness.
- Characterized by energy and assertiveness:
- To provide with an incentive or a reason for doing something; impel:
- To cause to be enthusiastic:
- To give life to; fill with life:
- To impart interest or zest to; enliven:
- To fill with spirit, courage, or resolution:
- Affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed.
- Affording unobstructed passage or view:
- Having no protecting or concealing cover:
- Used other than as an idiom: see get,"Ž to.
- To affect adversely; to upset or annoy.
- To track down and intimidate.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To begin working.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, with gerund) To begin working at.
- To cause to begin working.
- A brief, usually heated conflict or argument.
- To deliberately begin to do (something):
- To pledge or commit oneself (to do something):
- To promise or guarantee:
- To establish, organize, or introduce:
- To initiate; begin:
- To establish or invest (someone) in an office or position.
- To cause to take place.
- To accomplish, achieve.
- To cause to exist; bring into being:
- To give rise to; produce:
- To produce through artistic or imaginative effort:
- To lead or move, as to a course of action, by influence or persuasion.
- To bring about or stimulate the occurrence of; cause:
- To infer by inductive reasoning.
- The act of taking or tightening up.
- A device for reducing slack or taking up lost motion, as one in a loom.
- To begin.
- To set out on a trip.
- a starting or starting up
- a new business venture
- of or for a new business venture
- To climb or ascend:
- To place oneself upon; get up on:
- To climb onto (a female) for copulation. Used of male animals.
- To throw or propel with force; hurl:
- To set or thrust (a self-propelled craft or projectile) in motion:
- To put (a boat) into the water in readiness for use.
- (idiomatic) to trigger movement, to get going
- Something brought about by a cause or agent; a result.
- The power to produce an outcome or achieve a result:
- Advantage; avail:
- To bring forth; yield:
- To create by physical or mental effort:
- To manufacture:
- To urge to action through moral pressure; drive:
- To drive forward; propel.
- An event or happening, or the time of an event or happening:
- A significant event, especially a large or important social gathering:
- A favorable or appropriate time or juncture:
- To begin; start.
- To enter upon or have a beginning; start.
- To induct into office by a formal ceremony.
- To cause to begin, especially officially or formally:
- To open or begin use of formally with a ceremony; dedicate:
- To set going by taking the first step; begin:
- To introduce to a new field, interest, skill, or activity:
- To admit (someone) into membership, as with a ritual or ceremony.
- The producer of an effect, result, or consequence.
- The one, such as a person, event, or condition, that is responsible for an action or result.
- A basis for an action or response; a reason:
- To begin a movement, activity, or undertaking:
- To move on the initial part of a journey:
- To have a beginning; commence:
To come into being
- A program, as on television, scheduled to follow another:
- a starting or starting up
- a new business venture
- of or for a new business venture
- A flower or cluster of flowers.
- The condition or time of flowering:
- A condition or period of maximum development.
- The reproductive structure of angiosperms, characteristically having either specialized male or female organs or both male and female organs, such as stamens and a pistil, enclosed in an outer envelope of petals and sepals.
- Such a structure having showy or colorful parts; a blossom.
- A flower head.
- To have as one's birthplace or nationality.
- To be derived from.
- A small protuberance on a stem or branch, sometimes enclosed in protective scales and containing an undeveloped leaf, flower, or leafy shoot.
- The stage or condition of having buds:
- An asexual reproductive structure, as in yeast or a hydra, that consists of an outgrowth capable of developing into a new individual.
- To take place; come about.
- To be found to exist or appear:
- To come to mind:
- To come or send forth, as from a source:
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To occur, especially suddenly or unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To appear suddenly.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To come rapidly into existence.