Synonyms of the word

start

• n. The beginning of an activity.
• n. A sudden involuntary movement.
• n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
• n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.
• n. A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
• v. (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
• v. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
• v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
• v. (transitive, sports) To put into play.
• v. (nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
• v. (euphemistic) To start your periods (menstruation).
• n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
• n. A handle, especially that of a plough.
• n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
• n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

act

• n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
• n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
• n. The process of doing something.
• n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
• n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
• n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
• n. (countable) Any organized activity.
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
• n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To do something.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
• v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
• v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
• v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
• v. (transitive) To play (a role).
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

advantage

• n. (countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to…
• n. (obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other…
• n. (countable, uncountable) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit.
• n. (tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
• n. (soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team…
• n. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
• v. (transitive) To provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to.
• v. (reflexive) To do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of.

be

• v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
• v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
• v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
• v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
• v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
• v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
• v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
• v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
• v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
• v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
• v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
• v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
• v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

begin

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
• v. (intransitive) To be in the first stage of some situation.
• v. (intransitive) To come into existence.
• n. (nonstandard) Beginning; start.

beginning

• n. (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space…
• n. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
• n. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
• n. The initial portion of some extended thing.
• v. present participle of begin.
• adj. (informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.

bulge

• n. Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when…
• n. The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
• n. (nautical) The bilge of a vessel.
• n. (colloquial) The outline of penis and testicles visible through clothing; manbulge.
• v. (intransitive) To stick out from (a surface).
• v. (intransitive) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.

commence

• v. (intransitive) To begin, start.
• v. (transitive) To begin to be, or to act as.
• v. (Britain, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.

commencement

• n. The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
• n. The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
• n. A graduation ceremony, from a school, college or university.

create

• v. (transitive) To bring into existence.
• v. (transitive) To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To be creative, imaginative.
• v. (transitive) To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
• v. (transitive) To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or…
• v. (transitive) To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
• adj. (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.

deform

• v. (transitive) To change the form of, negatively.
• v. (transitive) To change the looks of, negatively; to disfigure.
• v. (transitive) To mar the character of.
• v. (transitive) To alter the shape of by stress.
• v. (intransitive) To become misshapen or changed in shape.
• adj. (obsolete) Deformed, misshapen.

depart

• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. (intransitive) To set out on a journey.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To deviate (from).
• v. (transitive, now rare) To go away from; to leave.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To divide up; to distribute, share.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To separate, part.
• n. (obsolete) division; separation, as of compound substances.
• n. (obsolete) A going away; departure.

first

• adj. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
• adj. Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
• adv. Before anything else; firstly.
• n. (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
• n. (uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
• n. (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
• n. (countable, baseball) first base.
• n. (countable, Britain, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
• n. (countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
• n. A fraction of an integer ending in one.
• n. (obsolete) Time; time granted; respite.

get

• v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To receive.
• v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
• v. (copulative) To become.
• v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
• v. (transitive) To cause to do.
• v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
• v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
• v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
• v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
• v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
• v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
• v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
• v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
• v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
• v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
• v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
• v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
• v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
• v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
• v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
• v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
• v. (transitive) To getter.
• v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
• v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
• v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
• v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
• v. (euphemistic) To kill.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
• n. Offspring.
• n. Lineage.
• n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
• n. Something gained.
• n. (Britain, regional) A git.
• n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

get-go

• n. (colloquial) The beginning.

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

initiate

• adj. (obsolete) Unpractised; untried; new.
• adj. (obsolete) Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.
• n. A new member of an organization.
• n. One who has been through a ceremony of initiation.
• v. (transitive) To begin; to start.
• v. To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
• v. To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
• v. (intransitive) To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.

jump

• v. (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that…
• v. (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
• v. (transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
• v. (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
• v. (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound)…
• v. (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position…
• v. (transitive) To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.
• v. (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
• v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse.
• v. (transitive) To cause to jump.
• v. (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
• v. (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and…
• v. (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
• v. (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
• v. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
• v. (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
• v. (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the…
• n. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
• n. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
• n. (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
• n. (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
• n. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
• n. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
• n. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
• n. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
• n. A jumping move in a board game.
• n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself…
• n. (sports, horses) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over…
• n. (with on) An early start or an advantage.
• n. (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured…
• n. (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
• n. (computing) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
• adv. (obsolete) exactly; precisely.
• adj. (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
• n. A kind of loose jacket for men.

kickoff

• n. Alternative spelling of kick-off.

leave

• v. (heading, transitive) To have a consequence or remnant.
• v. (heading) To depart; to separate from.
• v. (heading) To transfer something.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
• n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
• n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether…
• n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
• n. (dated or law) Permission.
• n. (dated) Farewell, departure.
• v. (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
• v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

make

• v. (transitive, heading) To create.
• v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
• v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
• v. To constitute.
• v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
• v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
• v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
• v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
• v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
• v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
• v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
• v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
• v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
• v. To appoint; to name.
• v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
• v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
• v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
• v. To enact; to establish.
• v. To develop into; to prove to be.
• v. To form or formulate in the mind.
• v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
• v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
• v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
• v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
• n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
• n. How a thing is made; construction.
• n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
• n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
• n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
• n. A person's character or disposition.
• n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
• n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
• n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
• n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
• n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
• n. (slang, military) A promotion.
• n. A home-made project.
• n. (basketball) A made basket.
• n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

offset

• n. Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
• n. (international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within…
• n. (obsolete, c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
• n. A printing method, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the…
• n. (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
• n. (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base…
• n. The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
• n. (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular…
• n. An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly…
• n. (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
• n. A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
• n. (architecture) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by…
• v. To compensate for something.
• v. To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).

originate

• v. (transitive) To cause to be, to bring into existence; to produce, initiate.
• v. (intransitive) To come into existence; to have origin or beginning; to spring, be derived (from, with).

outset

• n. the beginning or initial stage of something.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

play

• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
• v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
• v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
• v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
• v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
• v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
• v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
• v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
• v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
• n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
• n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
• n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
• n. The conduct, or course of a game.
• n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
• n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
• n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
• n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
• n. (countable) A major move by a business.
• n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
• n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
• n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

point

• n. A discrete division of something.
• n. A sharp extremity.
• n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
• n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
• n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
• n. Lace worked by the needle.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
• n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
• n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
• n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
• n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
• n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
• v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
• v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
• v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
• v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
• v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
• v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
• v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
• v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
• v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
• v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
• v. (obsolete) To appoint.
• v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

pop

• n. (countable) A loud, sharp sound as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
• n. (uncountable, regional, Midwestern US, Canada, dated British) An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently…
• n. (countable, regional, Midwestern US, Canada) A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink,…
• n. Shortened from pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm. Possibly confusion, by assonance,…
• n. (colloquial, in the phrase "a pop") A portion, a quantity dispensed.
• n. Something that stands out or is distinctive, especially to the senses.
• n. (computing) The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.
• n. A bird, the European redwing.
• n. (physics) The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration,…
• v. (intransitive) To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.
• v. (ergative) To burst (something) with a popping sound.
• v. (intransitive, with in, out, upon, etc.) To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move…
• v. (transitive, Britain) To place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement.
• v. (intransitive, Britain, Canada, often with over, round, along, etc.) To make a short trip or visit.
• v. (intransitive) To stand out; to be distinctive to the senses.
• v. (transitive) To hit (something or someone).
• v. (transitive, slang) To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.
• v. (intransitive, vulgar) To ejaculate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove a data item from the top of (a stack).
• v. (transitive, slang) To pawn (something) (to raise money).
• v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a tablet of a drug).
• v. (transitive, informal) To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.
• v. (intransitive, of the ears) To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.
• interj. Used to represent a loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
• n. (colloquial) Affectionate form of father.
• adj. (used attributively in set phrases) Popular.
• n. Pop music.
• n. (Russian Orthodoxy, uncommon) A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson.

protrude

• v. To extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.
• v. To thrust forward; to drive or force along.
• v. To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.

reflex

• n. An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
• n. (linguistics) the descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter…
• n. (obsolete) Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
• adj. Bent, turned back or reflected.
• adj. Produced automatically by a stimulus.
• adj. (geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
• adj. (photography) Of a camera or camera mechanism, using a mirror to reflect the image onto a ground-glass…
• v. to bend, turn back or reflect.
• v. to respond to a stimulus.

showtime

• n. The time at which an entertainment event is set to begin.
• n. (figuratively) The time for action.
• interj. A declaration that something is about to happen, particularly that the person speaking is about to act.

sign

• n. (sometimes also used uncountably) A visible indication.
• n. A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures.
• n. (astrology) An astrological sign.
• n. (mathematics) Positive or negative polarity. (Note: it is improper to place a sign on the number zero).
• n. A specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically,…
• n. (uncountable) Sign language in general.
• n. An omen.
• n. (medicine) A property of the body that indicates a disease and, unlike a symptom, is unlikely to be noticed…
• n. A military emblem carried on a banner or standard.
• v. To make a mark.
• v. To make the sign of the cross.
• v. To indicate.

signal

• n. A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted…
• n. An on-off light, semaphore, or other device used to give an indication to another person.
• n. (of a radio, TV, telephone, internet, etc.) An electrical or electromagnetic action, normally a voltage…
• n. A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
• n. Useful information, as opposed to noise.
• n. (computing, Unix) A simple interprocess communication used to notify a process or thread of an occurrence.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To indicate.
• adj. Standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement.

signaling

• v. present participle of signal.
• n. (usually biochemistry) The sending of a biochemical or other type of signal.

start

• n. The beginning of an activity.
• n. A sudden involuntary movement.
• n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
• n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.
• n. A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
• v. (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
• v. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
• v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
• v. (transitive, sports) To put into play.
• v. (nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
• v. (euphemistic) To start your periods (menstruation).
• n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
• n. A handle, especially that of a plough.
• n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
• n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

starting

• v. present participle of start.
• n. The act of something that starts.

startle

• v. (intransitive) To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
• v. (transitive) To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously;…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deter; to cause to deviate.
• n. A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

vantage

• n. An advantage.
• n. A place or position affording a good view; a vantage point.
• n. A superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
• n. (dated, tennis) Alternative form of advantage (score after deuce).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To profit; to aid.