The act or process of bringing or being brought into existence

• kickoff

  1. A place kick in football that starts play at the beginning of a half or after a team has scored.
  2. A kick of a stationary ball from the middle of the field in soccer that starts play at the beginning of a half or after a goal has been scored.
  3. A similar kick in Rugby.

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• start

  1. To begin a movement, activity, or undertaking:
  2. To move on the initial part of a journey:
  3. To have a beginning; commence:

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• origination

  1. (uncountable) The process of bringing something into existence.
  2. (countable) The act of bringing something into existence.

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• opening

  1. The act or an instance of becoming open or being made to open:
  2. A gap, breach, or aperture:
  3. A clearing in the woods.

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• leadoff

  1. An opening play or move.
  2. One that leads off.

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• launch

  1. To throw or propel with force; hurl:
  2. To set or thrust (a self-propelled craft or projectile) in motion:
  3. To put (a boat) into the water in readiness for use.

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• initiation

  1. The act or process of initiating something.
  2. The process of being initiated.
  3. The condition of being initiated.

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• incipiency

  1. A state of nascency; a quality of incipience.

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• incipience

  1. A beginning, or first stage

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• inauguration

  1. Formal induction into office.
  2. A formal beginning or introduction.

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• commencement

  1. A beginning; a start.
  2. A ceremony at which academic degrees or diplomas are conferred.
  3. The day on which such a ceremony occurs.

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• beginning

  1. The act or process of bringing or being brought into being; a start:
  2. The time when something begins or is begun:
  3. The place where something begins or is begun:

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The initial stage of a developmental process

• start

  1. To begin a movement, activity, or undertaking:
  2. To move on the initial part of a journey:
  3. To have a beginning; commence:

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• spring

  1. To move upward or forward in a single quick motion or a series of such motions; leap:
  2. To move suddenly, especially because of being resilient or moved by a spring:
  3. To start doing something suddenly:

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• outset

  1. The initial stage of something; the beginning:

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• origin

  1. The point at which something comes into existence or from which it derives or is derived.
  2. Ancestry:
  3. The fact of originating; rise or derivation:

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• opening

  1. The act or an instance of becoming open or being made to open:
  2. A gap, breach, or aperture:
  3. A clearing in the woods.

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• onset

  1. The beginning or start of something:
  2. The part of a syllable that precedes the nucleus. In the word nucleus (no͝o&STRESS;klē-əs), the onset of the first syllable is (n), the onset of the second syllable is (kl), and the last syllable has no onset.
  3. An attack by military forces; an assault.

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• nascency

  1. A state of incipiency; a quality of nascence.

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• nascence

  1. A coming into being; a beginning:

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• genesis

  1. The coming into being of something; the origin.

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• dawn

  1. The time each morning at which daylight first begins.
  2. A first appearance; a beginning:
  3. To begin to become light in the morning.

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• commencement

  1. A beginning; a start.
  2. A ceremony at which academic degrees or diplomas are conferred.
  3. The day on which such a ceremony occurs.

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• birth

  1. The emergence and separation of offspring from the body of the mother.
  2. The act or process of bearing young; parturition:
  3. The circumstances or conditions relating to this event, as its time or location:

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• beginning

  1. The act or process of bringing or being brought into being; a start:
  2. The time when something begins or is begun:
  3. The place where something begins or is begun:

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