startingn.

Brit.

/ˈstɑːtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈstɑrdɪŋ/

Forms: see start v. and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: start v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < start v. + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of start v. (in various senses); an instance of this.In earlier use typically in uses corresponding to senses at start v. I.Earliest in starting about: see Compounds 1a.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [noun] > starting or springing back

startinga1398

recoilment1651

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > leaping or springing suddenly

startinga1398

bouncing1611

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun]

ordeOE

thresholdeOE

frumthc950

anginOE

frumeOE

worthOE

beginninga1225

springc1225

commencementc1250

ginninga1300

comsingc1325

entryc1330

aginning1340

alphac1384

incomea1400

formec1400

ingressc1420

birtha1425

principlea1449

comsementa1450

resultancec1450

inition1463

inceptiona1483

entering1526

originala1529

inchoation1530

opening1531

starting1541

principium1550

entrance1553

onset1561

rise1589

begin1590

ingate1591

overture1595

budding1601

initiationa1607

starting off1616

dawninga1631

dawn1633

impriminga1639

start1644

fall1647

initial1656

outset1664

outsettinga1698

going off1714

offsetting1782

offset1791

commence1794

aurora1806

incipiency1817

set-out1821

set-in1826

throw-off1828

go-off1830

outstart1844

start1857

incipience1864

oncome1865

kick-off1875

off-go1886

off1896

get-go1960

lift-off1967

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > [noun] > desertion of one's party or principles

recreandisea1425

declining1526

declination1533

back-turning1535

defect1540

revoltc1576

falling off1577

apostasy1578

tergiversation1583

declension1597

recreancy1602

starting1602

recreantness1611

recession1614

turncoating1624

recreancea1632

diffidation1640

withdrawment1640

tergiversating1654

turning1665

ratting1789

renegadism1823

turncoatery1841

defection1884

turncoatism1889

society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with rope

rope's enda1475

starting1802

rope's-ending1806

colting1834

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. lix. 1208 He [sc. the hert calf] is..swyft of cours and of rennyng... His fleissh is tendre..for his ofte moeuynge and startyng aboute [L. discursum].

a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) l. 7317 [Generides] stert a-side thoo; In the sterting the knife was nigh.

a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 230 (MED) Ȝif he dye sodeynly as in playingis of balles and of stirtyngis, then he may and oweþ to be beryed in the beryinge place of Cristen men.

1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) iii. i. 52 b Stertynge or saltion [other edd. salcion] of the members.

1602 in T. G. Law Archpriest Controv. (1898) II. 221 Which action, without waveringe or startinge, I did earnestly prosecute.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §713 Starting is both an Apprehension of the Thing feared;..And likewise an Inquisition, in the beginning, what the Matter should be.

1653 Bp. J. Taylor XXV Serm. i. 8 Thy falshod to God and startings from thy holy promises..shall be laid open before all the world.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 63 Before you paste your Paper on the form, first Tallow him, so will the Canvas and Paper slip off without starting or tearing.

1707 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Diverting Wks. 114 Omitting nothing that was necessary to be done, to prevent the starting of any Nullities in my Wedlock.

1726 J. Mitchell & A. Hill Fatal Extravagance iv. iv. 56 Can'st thou sleep, unstung, By guilty Startings, and remorseful Dreams?

1798 R. Jackson Outl. Hist. & Cure Fever 239 Tremors, startings, and the various irregular motions, which often appear in fever, are undoubtedly dangerous.

1802 Ann. Reg. 1801 (Otridge ed.) Chron. 44/2 [He] called to the boatswain to bring a point (a rope doubled with knots at the end), and give the plaintiff a ‘starting’.

1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 200/2 The expense will be abundantly repaid by the safety of the plants, and the earlier starting of the seeds.

1885 W. Pater Marius the Epicurean II. iv. xx. 100 Those noises in the house all supper-time..were they only startings in the old rafters?

1908 J. R. Smith Ocean Carrier ii. iii. 275 The starting of rival shipping lines is deterred by the certainty of fierce competition.

1919 Insurance Law Jrnl. 53 64 The accident occurring on the train was produced by a sudden starting of the train.

1924 Musical Times 1 Apr. 344 The limitations of the weekly article often lead to the mere starting of a hare.

1988 R. Gray in H. Bloom Franz Kafka's The Castle 52 There are no stoppings and startings in The Castle, characters do not appear only to disappear, but are interrelated from the first moment.

2012 C. Grover Flash CS6: Missing Man. v. 768 You can create a shortcut or drag the file to your Windows taskbar for quicker starting.

b. at starting: at the beginning of a race or journey; (more generally) at the outset. Now somewhat rare.

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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > at the beginning [phrase]

at firstc1300

at (also in) the first bruntc1450

at the first chop1528

at hand1558

at the first jump1577

at starting1674

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xxxi. 54 Many Charrets appearing at the first starting with new wheels well greased.]

1674 J. Dryden et al. Notes Empress of Morocco sig. A4^v One would think by the horrid bluster that he made at Starting..that for certain he must be some extraordinary inspired mortal, his Play some very transcendent piece.

1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. xi. 9/1 When a Plate is run for by Heats, every Man that rides must weight just at Starting in great Scales brought into the Field for that purpose.

1748 Whitehall Evening-post 13–15 Sept. The Odds, at starting, were on Babram.

1782 D. Hartley Let. 8 July in B. Franklin Papers (2003) XXXVII. 594 Were I treating with an enemy..for a barrier town..nothing..would be so absurd as to give it up at starting, as a fixed article before the treaty.

1834 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. I. ix. 134 It is given you in order that you may find it easy to obey at starting.

1868 Field 18 July 49/1 The favourite, taking a clear lead at starting, made all the running, and won in a canter by a couple of lengths.

1883 A. Thomas Mod. Housewife 144 At starting let me say that [etc.].

1902 J. S. Fletcher Hist. St. Leger Stakes 114 Quid was exceedingly restless at starting, and ran restive all the way.

1977 N.Z. Jrnl. Exper. Agric. 5 3/2 The mean weight of all calves at starting was 37.8..kg.

†c. starting of the navel n. Obsolete umbilical hernia (protrusion of a portion of bowel from the umbilicus), esp. in an infant; an instance of this.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of abdomen or diaphragm > [noun] > hernia of umbilicus

navel-burst1589

omphalocele1653

starting of the navel1687

navel-rupture1698

exomphalos1754

paromphalocele1857

1687 Chirurgorum Comes iii. vii. xxx. 595/2 Avicen adds ἐξόμϕαλον, that is, the starting of the Navel, or a Rupture there.

1753 J. Wesley Christian Libr. XXVII. 64 But although he had much recovered his Health, without going to the Bath, yet the Starting of his Navel was not fully cured.

1797 M. Underwood Treat. Disorders Childhood II. 129 It has been said, that startings of the navel more commonly happen to such infants, in whom the skin of the belly has extended further than is common upon the navel-string.

1857 R. Barwell Care of Sick (ed. 2) ii. 26 Another form of rupture is that, which is usually called ‘starting of the navel’; it sometimes is present at birth, but comes on more frequently about the time when the navel-string falls off.

1914 R. Howard Pract. Surg. xxi. 748 The symptoms are the presence of a soft swelling at the umbilicus (‘starting of the navel’ or ‘windy navel’), which increases when the child cries.

2. In plural. That with which, or from which, something starts or may be started; the beginnings of something.

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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun] > bringing into action > setting in operation

streeking?a1500

start1680

startings1907

turn-on1962

1907 Ohio Archaeol. & Hist. Q. July 402 Probably no one living has so much knowledge ‘at first hand’ of the startings of our state history.

1912 Outlook 6 Apr. 789/1 Despite his long-continued..contempt for ‘politics’, he actually felt the startings of an ambition to ‘run it’.

1956 J. H. Griffin Nuni xx. 140 I swallow back the startings of nausea.

2012 R. Fernando Homesick (2013) 104 Above his lip grew the startings of a moustache.

Compounds

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a. With following adverb, forming nouns of action corresponding to phrasal verbs at start v.With quot. a1398 cf. start v. 3b.

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1570 T. Tymme tr. J. Brenz Newes from Niniue to Eng. f. 20 Hitherto hath bene described the secure and disobedient fleeing and starting aside of Ionas.

1600 R. G. Famous Hist. Albions Queene sig. K He writeth to her of the starting away of Winchester his chiefe Counseller.

1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 128 She..seemed to stumble (in her starting back) at the foot of the Table, and thereby fell.

1767 J. Bate Critica Hebræa 496/1 It is the starting aside, in their affections, the context speaks of.

1892 A. B. Dodd In & Out of 3 Normandy Inns (1899) xxix. 338 A starting forth was the signal for the village to assemble about the char-a-banc's wheels.

1900 Kulp's Luzerne Legal Reg. Rep. 9 32 Between the times of his starting forward and the accident, a car coming at the ordinary speed would not have arrived.

2008 E. Barnes Walk with me Today, Lord 34 All of us will hit the wall at some point in our starting over.

starting off n. the action of to start off at start v. Phrasal verbs 1; in later use frequently attributive.

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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun]

ordeOE

thresholdeOE

frumthc950

anginOE

frumeOE

worthOE

beginninga1225

springc1225

commencementc1250

ginninga1300

comsingc1325

entryc1330

aginning1340

alphac1384

incomea1400

formec1400

ingressc1420

birtha1425

principlea1449

comsementa1450

resultancec1450

inition1463

inceptiona1483

entering1526

originala1529

inchoation1530

opening1531

starting1541

principium1550

entrance1553

onset1561

rise1589

begin1590

ingate1591

overture1595

budding1601

initiationa1607

starting off1616

dawninga1631

dawn1633

impriminga1639

start1644

fall1647

initial1656

outset1664

outsettinga1698

going off1714

offsetting1782

offset1791

commence1794

aurora1806

incipiency1817

set-out1821

set-in1826

throw-off1828

go-off1830

outstart1844

start1857

incipience1864

oncome1865

kick-off1875

off-go1886

off1896

get-go1960

lift-off1967

1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iv. v, in Wks. I. 582 Why, this is strange starting off, when a man vnder-takes for you!

1821 M. Edgeworth Let. 29 Jan. (1971) 235 I hope this can be arranged as I found it a starting off point and I could not conclude the agreement without it.

1840 M. Howitt Hope On! Hope Ever! xiv. 156 The sound would have been lost..in the clattering starting off of four coaches at one and the same moment.

1895 R. Kipling in Cent. Mag. 51 265/2 There was the same ‘starting-off place’—a pile of brushwood.

1915 V. Thurstan Field Hosp. & Flying Column ix. 146 It was very interesting these startings off into the unknown, with our little fleet of automobiles containing ourselves and our equipment.

1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. ii. 54 Activation, or the starting-off of the egg on development.

1999 G. Cox Dict. Sport v. 174/1 A gymnast will use the same starting-off procedure as for the handstand.

2012 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 10 Dec. 53 The starting off of the ‘Foundation of Hearts’ was more of a bad joke than a serious offer.

starting up n. the action of to start up at start v. Phrasal verbs 1 (in various senses); in later use frequently attributive (in sense to start up 2 at Phrasal verbs 1).

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1567 T. Stapleton Counterblast iii. xxxvii. f. 361^v In the first starting vppe of your Apostle, I shoulde saye Apostata Martin Luther.

a1626 L. Andrewes Certaine Serm. 17 in XCVI Serm. (1629) The Poore..have received greater helpe in this Realme within these forty yeares last past, since (not, the starting up of our Church, as they fondly use to speake, but since) the reforming ours from the error of theirs.

a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) Introd. 30 The ancient Fathers, who lived and flourished..before the starting up of the Pelagian Controversies.

1722 D. Turner Art of Surg. II. vii. 147 Some Bearing or Protuberance happening by the starting up of the Bone.

1782 Universal Mag. Apr. 200/2 Let our success be what it might be for a time, a defeat at sea, a disaster by land, or the starting up of a new enemy, would destroy it.

1802 Med. Repository 5 133 A starting up in bed, with a wildness of countenance, and an absence of all sense of time and place.

1885 Cent. Mag. May 35/2 He [sc. a greyhound] is taken into a field, there to await the starting-up of the hare by beaters employed for that purpose.

1902 Electr. Catech. xi. 164 A small induction motor is mounted on the shaft or arranged to be belted to the synchronous motor shaft during the starting-up period.

1946 Happy Landings July 1/1 The engine was not turned by hand through one cycle before the starting-up operation.

1993 R. K. Loewen Family, Church, & Market vi. 115 Starting-up costs in Manitoba were considerably higher than those in Nebraska and Kansas.

2002 G. Hill Orchards of Syon xliii. 43 Such startings-up, slouchings, of self-hatred; a sullen belch from the ice-maker in the small hours.

C2. attributive in various uses relating to senses of start v. II.

(a) With reference to the starting of a race (esp. in Horse Racing).Earliest in starting post n. at Compounds 4.

starting list n.

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1848 Bell's Life in London 30 Jan. 4/2 It is hardly likely that more than one [horse] from each stable will be comprised in the starting list on the day of the race.

1903 Motor 30 Sept. 182/1 The luck of the draw had assigned us the 70th place on the starting list.

1953 Motor Boating Oct. 35/2 This year's starting list was the smallest to date.

2014 Sligo Champion (Nexis) 1 July 52 Our Grand Prix show last year drew a starting list of over 90 horse/rider combinations for the main class.

starting machine n.

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1847 Era 15 Aug. 3/4 To-day we had the introduction of a newly invented starting machine, produced by Mr. Easthope..who is now in communication with the racing authorities in Southampton.

1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 190/1 [In article Racing] The Starter's duties are at present threatened with supersession by the introduction of the ‘starting machine’, a colonial invention.

1902 Washington Post 29 Oct. 8/3 The feature at the Fair Grounds track to-day was the first official test of a starting machine.

2008 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 31 May 71 There are 63 sheltered and irrigated paddocks, while it even has an eight-horse starting machine and swimming facilities.

starting stalls n.

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1885 E. S. Shuckburgh tr. Cicero in Cicero Laelius Notes 104 That you may, as the saying is, reach the goal with those with whom you set off from what one may call the starting-stalls [L. tamquam a carceribus].

1927 Washington Post 12 Dec. 13/3 Marshall Cassidy's new starting stalls were tried out for the first time on a muddy track yesterday and perfect results followed.

1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 495/1 The starter lines up the competitors in the correct order in their starting stalls (where these are used, otherwise behind the starting ‘gate’).

2004 Racing Ahead June 36/1 The speed she showed on leaving the starting stalls made me fear the worst.

† starting stoop n. [stoop n.¹] Obsolete

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1665 Rules Horse-coursing at Leith (Edinb. Town Council) (single sheet) Each Horse that Runs, is to be led out to the starting-stoup, one hours space before Low-water.

1708 London Gaz. No. 4450/4 The Horses to be enter'd at the Starting-Stoop 10 Days before the Race.

1791 J. Learmont Poems Pastoral 65 The only twa things he ca's guid 'S a startin' stupe—a horse o' bluid.

1876 W. Cudworth Round about Bradford 414 Prior to 1810..horse races were annually held on the moor. The ‘starting post’ was near to a farmstead which is still called the ‘Starting Stoop’.]

(b) Designating a device used to give the signal which marks the start of a race, as starting gun, starting horn, starting pistol, etc. Also figurative.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting signal

startc1612

starting1827

flag1856

red flag1893

gun1900

1827 P. Egan Anecd. Turf 296 At a quarter before two o'clock, the starting gun fired at Blackfriars' Bridge.

1830 Bell's Life in London 31 Jan. The starting-bell rings—oh! the twang of that bell Is worse than ‘King Duncan's’ funeral knell.

1830 Morning Chron. 25 June Precisely at twenty-three minutes to five o'clock the starting pistol was fired.

1903 Amer. Wool & Cotton Reporter 15 Oct. 1275/1 The 15th of October is here and about this time the starting gun for the opening of the clothiers' season is sounded.

1908 Automobile Topics 10 Oct. 22/2 It was 8.46 when the starting horn was blown.

1935 ‘N. Blake’ Question of Proof ii. 30 Get set! Go!! That was the starting-pistol you heard.

1937 Flight 22 July 99/1 Their team was routed out of bed, the Sportleitung was awakened and requested to blow the official starting hooter, and the Falcon got into the air again at 6.30 a.m.

1961 Rotarian May 38/1 The starting pistol cracked. The first runners shot from their starting block.

1995 W. Pasnak Sink or Swim xiii. 78 Now, all of you, set your watches and prepare to cast off. The first starting horn will sound at exactly ten o'clock.

2001 Brit. Bandsman 8 Sept. 13 The British Open Championships are the starting pistol for the contesting season and this year 21 bands are squaring up for battle, including debutantes, Kirkintilloch, which has made it though for the first time in its 112-year history.

2012 J. Link & C. Link Why can't I get my Kids to Behave? i. 4 The race is starting, and he is in position with the other runners, waiting for the starting gun to go off.

b. In more general attributive use, esp. in the sense ‘at or from which to start something’ or ‘at or from which something starts’.Earliest in starting point n. at Compounds 4.

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1782 Hint to Patriot Parl. 13 As a starting point, let it [sc. the price of the stock] be stated at fifty-five, the price it bore when the late Ministry were dismissed.

1831 Edinb. Lit. Jrnl. 8 Jan. 28/2 As the starting note in music regulates and characterises the tune, so the starting number [of a publication] may safely be considered not only as a first, but as a fair specimen of the whole.

1867 Rep. Inspecting Officers upon Certain Accidents occurred on Railways (House of Lords Committee Privy Council for Trade) I. 7/1 Lamkin says that he then put on the starting signal at the east end of the Farringdon Street station to danger.

1899 Theosophist July 612 Taking for granted the year 543 B.C. as the starting date of the Parinirvâna, I noted [etc.].

1908 Westm. Gaz. 30 Mar. 5/2 For starting purposes supplementary power is obtained by means of an electric machine.

1946 Man. Operation Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Harvard Computation Lab.) vi. 299 Operating Instructions..Five cards, labeled ‘starting cards’, must be placed in card feed I.

1990 Midwest Living Feb. 28/2 The inn is a great starting spot for shopping the 22 Victorian-themed shops and boutiques.

2009 Nature 15 Jan. 239/1 The organocatalyst helps the first two starting materials to react.

c. Designating an amount, arrangement, selection, etc., as fixed or obtaining at the beginning of something; as, a price at the start of an auction, the particular choice of a team at the start of a sporting contest, etc.Earliest in starting price n. at Compounds 4.Some instances could alternatively be interpreted as showing starting adj. (cf. starting adj. 3). Cf. opening adj. 2b, 2c.

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1809 Bury & Norwich Post 1 Feb. The few remaining Tickets on sale, after the commencement of the late Lottery, rose from their starting price to 56l and upwards.

1841 New Eng. Farmer 3 Nov. 138/1 The prices heretofore given for the best short-horned Durham, will be no more than a ‘starting bid’ for them.

1853 Boston Daily Atlas 14 Nov. This season the probability is that $4a4,25 will be the starting rates.

1921 Ohio State Univ. Monthly Dec. 9/1 It was the first Conference contest in which Isabel had appeared in the starting line-up.

1950 H. Goldstein Classical Mech. (1951) ix. 288 Since q and p return to their original starting values in one period, the system point retraces its steps every period, and the orbit in phase space is closed.

1963 New Scientist 11 Apr. 113/3 (advt.) Salary starting rate will be assessed according to experience and qualifications.

2011 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 2 Dec. Auckland's starting 11 is unlikely to resemble the one that will take the field in Nagoya in a week's time.

(a) Designating a device, apparatus, etc., used in starting machinery.

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1907 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 3 Aug. 70/2 The starting pistons revolve the motor shaft by means of racks acting on a pinion.

1910 R. Ferris How it Flies vi. 114 The Wright machine..was still dependent upon a starting device to enable it to leave the ground.

1940 N.Y. Times 16 Jan. 43/1 The starting battery must deliver a high current to meet the high torque requirements.

1971 Gloss. Electrotechnical, Power Terms (B.S.I.) ii. iii. 15 Starting winding, a winding, the purpose of which is to produce torque for starting a machine.

2015 Knox (Victoria, Austral.) Leader (Nexis) 17 Mar. 3 Brivis recalled the coolers when they found a defect in some of the starting devices on the supply fan motors.

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starting-bar n.

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1833 Mechanics' Mag. 6 Apr. 8/2 The starting-bar c works on a centre d in the wiper-shaft.

1963 J. T. Rowland North to Adventure x. 147 Bob returned to his post, beside the engine, starting-bar in hand.

2012 N. Robins Coming of Comet iii. 38 To start the engine, to coax it into motion, the engineer had a starting bar.

starting cord n.

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1866 U.S. Patent 53,904 3/1 The combination, with the stopping and starting cord or rod of a hoisting apparatus, of the valves of a liquid-stop apparatus and the steam-valve or movable seat of the steam-engine motor operating substantially as described.

1929 Forest & Stream Feb. 118/2 He wound the starting cord into the groove on the flywheel and then gave it a mighty heave.

2007 Yachting Mar. 122/3 You..yanked for all you were worth, hopeful that the engine would start and that the end of the starting cord would not injure anyone else in the boat.

starting gear n.

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1842 S. Clegg Archit. Machinery 37 Smaller pedestals..support the bearings of the starting gear of marine engines.

1910 Manch. Guardian 9 Nov. 12/2 The S.C.A.T. cars..enjoy the distinction of being among the very few cars having automatic starting gear.

2008 J. Pilbeam et al. Electr. Workmanship Level 3 v. 219 Single-phase AC motors need some kind of starting gear or control gear to help them start up.

starting panel n.

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1898 Amer. Electrician 10 492/3 A starting panel..of polished black slate, located close to the motors, so that the attendant could control both the brake and the starting levers and switches.

1913 J. B. Bishop Panama Gateway v. v. 376 A starting panel containing contractors by which current is applied to the motor.

2003 T. L. Koglin Movable Bridge Engin. xviii. 291 It may also require groping in the dark to locate the starting panel and get the generator running.

starting switch n.

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1892 L. Bell in T. C. Martin & J. Wetzler Electric Motor (new ed.) 305/1 On its pole piece will be noticed a starting switch, which is supplied to all the small motors for starting and stopping, and in some cases for regulating.

1925 Morris Owner's Man. 9 The engine starting switch is controlled by a round black knob on the left-hand side of the dashboard.

2007 T. D. Thornton Not by Long Shot vii. 324 Tom Schwigen instantly flicks his starting switch, releasing the electromagnetic lock holding closed the massive front doors of the barrier.

starting valve n.

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1840 P. R. Hodge Steam Engine vi. 229 The steam enters through the starting-valve, the handle of which is seen in plan and elevation.

1912 Times of India 12 Jan. 15/3 Reversing in this engine is accomplished..by turning a subsidiary shaft through the required angle, a motion which by means of levers and eccentrics alters the position of the cam operating the fuel and starting valve levers.

2004 D. Woodyard Pounder's Marine Diesel Engines & Gas Turbines (ed. 8) xiii. 464 The starting air system contains a main starting valve (two ball valves with actuators), a non-return valve, a starting air distributor and starting valves.

starting wheel n.

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1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 210/1 By this judicious and elegant expedient the starting wheel can never be driven by the engine.

1929 Jrnl. Royal United Service Inst. Feb. 122 A skilled Engine-room Artificer was sent on to the forecastle to manipulate the starting wheel.

2007 W. Sargent Just Seconds from Ocean 1 The barge owner wraps a piece of old frayed cord around the starting wheel and pulls—nothing.

†C3. Used attributively with reference to the discharging of beer, water, etc., from one container into another (cf. start v. 14b, 14c). Cf. starting beer n. at Compounds 4. Obsolete.

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1738 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer III. vi. 20 Where it [sc. beer] can be carried by the Leather-pipe from the Tun, Cooler, or Starting-tub into the Cask.

1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) II. 159 Though he thus sold by the false Cask, he bought by the true gaged starting Barrel.

1800 P. Boyle Publican & Spirit Dealers' Daily Compan. (ed. 6) 96 For removing of a butt of beer from a starting cellar abroad into the home cellar.

1832 B. Hall Fragm. Voy. & Trav. 2nd Ser. I. viii. 229 It [sc. water] was poured into a starting-tub at the hatchway, and so conveyed by a pipe to the casks in the hold.

1853 Southern Lit. Messenger May 281/1 Placing a starting-tub, (that is, a large tub having a hole in its bottom communicating with a leather tube or hose,) about twelve feet above the surface of the bay.

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† starting back n. [ < starting n. + back n.²] Whaling Obsolete a cistern in which blubber is placed before it is discharged into a boiler.

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society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > cutting up whale or seal > [noun] > container for blubber

fenk(s)-back1820

starting back1820

1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 398 An oblong wooden cistern, called the ‘starting-back’, is usually erected, for containing blubber.

a1823 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XV. 207/1 The casks being raised to the starting back are emptied of their contents, from which the blubber passes into the copper boiler.

starting beer n. now historical and rare (apparently) a kind of weak or medium-strength beer.The semantic motivation is unclear, as is the precise meaning; perhaps cf. slightly later Compounds 3 for starting n. Perhaps cf. keeping-beer at keeping n. Compounds.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [noun] > other kinds of beer

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October1705

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treacle beer1806

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Iceland beer1828

East India pale ale1835

India pale ale1837

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she-oak1848

Bass1849

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treble X1856

Burton1861

nettle beer1864

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Lambic1889

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Kriek1936

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1735 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer I. viii. 40 (heading) For brewing common brown Ale and Starting beer.

1756 T. Hale et al. Compl. Body Husbandry xi. vi. 602/2 The common brown Ale, or as they call it starting Beer, is made in the same Manner as the Stout; but a larger Quantity is brewed from the same Portion of Malt.

2012 Brewery Hist. No. 145. 21/2 She..set about collecting enough cash to save the brewery, which was now desperate even for money to buy starting beer.

starting bolt n. Nautical A long bolt or pin, usually made of steel, used to drive another bolt out of its hole.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > punch or drift for extracting bolts

drive bolt1627

set-bolt1627

starting bolt1780

1780 Boyer's Dictionnaire Royal (rev. ed.) I. 493/3 Rebouse,..a starting bolt.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Starting-Bolt, or Drift-bolt, a bolt used to drive out another; it is usually a trifle smaller.

1909 Jrnl. Amer. Soc. Naval Engineers Nov. 1187 Starting bolts are provided for the main joints of all turbines, but none are provided for the astern turbines.

2002 J. Stockwin Artemis vii. 160 An' the carpenter, when he wants t' move a contrary bolt, he starts it with a starting bolt.

starting box n. a rheostat used to control the current when starting an electric motor.

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1890 Science 1 Aug. 58/1 A perspective view of a motor, with sliding base and starting-box complete.

1930 Sel. Gloss. Motion Picture Techncian (Acad. Motion Pictures, Hollywood) Starting box, rheostat used to control current supplied to a motor during starting, to prevent damage to the motor winding.

2012 S. L. Herman Direct Current Fund. (ed. 8) xxii. 407 The three-terminal starting box is not suited for use where a field rheostat is used to obtain above-normal speeds.

starting gate n. Sport (originally Australian) a restraining structure incorporating a barrier that is raised or pushed aside at the start of a race, esp. in horse racing and skiing, to ensure a simultaneous start for all competitors or to ensure consistent timing of each competitor; also figurative and in extended use.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting or finishing mark > point from which individuals timed

starting gate1893

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > racecourse > [noun] > starting-point

starting gate1893

tape1957

1893 Argus (Melbourne) 16 Aug. 10/5 It is the intention of the Oakleigh Racing Club to use the starting-gate publicly for the first time at their meeting on Friday next.

1896 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 26 Feb. 4/7 The Australian starting gate will be used on the courses.

1930 Times 24 Mar. 4/2 Numbered saddle cloths, the starting-gate, and the totalisator are among the reforms which came from them.

1940 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Georgics i. 31 When racing chariots have rushed from the starting-gate.

1954 N.Y. Times 21 Mar. (Sports section) 3/8 Despite a fall at the starting gate, Reddish covered the 1.7 mile course with a 2,800 drop in 2:46:4.

1971 Language 47 5 Acceptance of this very general position..does little more than put one in the proper starting gate.

1976 New Yorker 8 Mar. 105/1 Mount Sterling stumbled coming out of the starting gate, unseating his rider, Maple.

2006 D. G. Schwartz Roll Bones xvi. 371 They..used technology, including improved starting gates and photo-finish cameras, to make races fairer.

starting grid n. a pattern of lines marked at the starting point of a motor race, indicating the positions in which the competitors are to line up; also in extended use.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] > course or track > starting grid

starting grid1935

grid1951

1935 Irish Times 1 July 4/4 In view of the advantage of having a front place on the starting grid, riders may be expected to take the practising seriously.

1937 Telegraph (Brisbane) 18 Mar. The entries [in the Australian Grand Prix for motorcyclists] in the order in which they will line up on the starting grid are: [etc.].

1957 S. Moss In Track of Speed xiii. 161 On the first line of the starting grid were Fangio and myself on Mercedes and Ascari on a Lancia.

2006 Australian (Nexis) 29 June 33 Not even the prospect of carrying two metal pins in his shoulders was going to stop Victoria's irrepressible Simon Gerrans from getting to the starting grid of this year's Tour de France.

2014 A. Pritchard Grand Prix Ferrari 24/2 In practice, Ascari was fastest, and alongside him on the front row of the starting grid were Villoresi, Farina and Sommer.

starting ground n. (a) a basis from which something (e.g. a sequence of events or an argument) starts; (b) the place where those taking part in a race, hunt, etc., gather before starting.

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the world > existence and causation > causation > basis or foundation > [noun]

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foundationc1400

groundment?a1412

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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > starting-point

terminus a quo1549

starting place1570

terma1628

salient motion1664

salient pointa1682

punctum saliens1695

starting point1782

Adam and Eve1793

starting ground1802

point of departure1804

baseline1836

point de départ1848

zero1849

start point1860

jumping-board1878

jumping-off board1914

jumping-off point1927

starting block1932

square one1952

1802 A. Bishop Proofs Conspiracy against Christianity i. iv. 16 Church and state was their starting ground, and human glory the end of their career.

1803 tr. Sophocles in B. Boothby tr. J. Racine Britannicus Pref. 27 Orestes..Leaps the high barrier at a single bound, And lights a-tiptoe on the starting ground.

1824 Kent & Essex Mercury 27 Apr. By one o'clock the whole of the starting-ground was covered with barouches, carriages, gigs, chaises, &c.

1869 Duke of Argyll Primeval Man iv. 145 Man..must always have had instincts which afford all that is required as a starting-ground for advance in the mechanical arts.

1901 Scotsman 24 Dec. 7/3 The old villa of Kirklands if gutted out would make an excellent club house close to the proposed new starting ground.

1961 Flight Mar. 82/2 The big propeller would have to run at full horsepower in order to raise the plane from so small a starting ground.

2011 S. G. Feinstein & R. W. Kiner Brain & Strengths Based School Leadership ii. 43 These [indicators] represent the starting ground for building and maintaining a positive school climate.

starting handle n. a handle used to start a machine; spec. a detachable one that is turned to start the engine of a motor vehicle.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > starting handle

starting handle1836

starter pack1955

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > parts of > starters

fire syringe1822

starting handle1836

magneto1882

self-starter1884

plug1886

gas starter1898

ignition plug1900

sparking plug1902

spark plug1903

dual ignition1909

impulse coupling1916

impulse starter1916

kick-starter1916

mag1918

cut-in1921

cartridge starter1922

recoil starter1931

glow plug1947

ignition1961

1836 6th Rep. Comm. Managem. Post-office Dept. App. 168 (table) in Parl. Papers XXVIII. 145 Engine..starting handle.

1886 D. Clerk Gas Engine ix. 242 The starting handle is then let go, and the motor piston runs over its ports.

1932 D. L. Sayers Have his Carcase xii. 145 After..exercise on the starting-handle, they had diagnosed trouble with the ignition.

1973 P. Audemars Delicate Dust of Death x. 136 They left the bus... Perhaps they could not start it... I tried the starting handle myself. It was jammed.

2001 Automobile June 90/1 I suppose it's inevitable to get bitten by a starting handle once in a while, but after 43 years' experience of cranking ancient cars I'd hoped to have avoided serious harm at this stage.

starting line n. a real or imaginary line used to mark the place from which a race starts; also figurative and in extended use.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting or finishing mark > starting mark

score1513

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goal1589

barrier1600

lists1601

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gate1928

mobile1969

1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair iv. xxxvii. 87 By Jove, they both have reach'd the base together, Gain'd is the starting-line, yet gain'd the race hath neither!

1880 G. C. Davies Pract. Boat Sailing 136 The yachts have all sail set and are under weigh, but have to keep behind the starting line.

1898 Morning Post 8 Sept. 6/1 When at nine o'clock the Southern Army began to move across its starting line it offered a splendid spectacle.

1905 Times of India 6 Feb. 7/2 General Stackelberg..had the Hun River valley..for his starting line.

1920 Isis 13 Oct. 2/2 Ten yards is allotted each side of the starting line in which to pass the baton to the next competitor.

1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio x. 173 Anything but sheer surrealism was doomed to remain stickily on the starting-line.

1974 Howard Jrnl. 14 84 In a meritocratic society those whose powers of oral and written expression are extremely limited are left at the starting line in the race for social status.

2002 L. Callahan Fitness Factor ii. 13 Joanne was making two common mistakes that had to be corrected before she could even get to the starting line of a successful exercise program.

2012 S. Large Crazy Enough vii. 81 Ten two-man boats lined up at the starting line.

starting note n. the note from which a melody starts; also figurative and in extended use.Earliest used with reference to Scottish traditional music, to denote a note that precedes the first accented note of a melody.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > anacrusis

starting note1793

1793 R. Burns Let. Apr. (1985) II. 196 That business of many of our tunes wanting at the begin^g what Fiddlers call, a starting-note, is often a rub to us poor Rhymers.

1793 R. Burns Let. Sept. (2003) II. 245 The old way, & the way to give most effect, is to have no starting note, as the Fiddlers call it, but to burst at once into the pathos.

1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 170/2 He adorned his discourses with that melodious tone which some call the Cameronian drawl... Each sentence has a kind of starting note.

1838 W. Dauney Anc. Scotish Melodies App. 326 Taking any of the sounds, d, e, &c. as the starting note, and running through the diatonic scale up to the octave.

1901 Internat. Monthly 4 175 When the organist gives the starting-note, for the subsequent stanza [of a hymn], after a bold progress through several foreign keys, he will find his entire congregation..entering timidly and without vigor.

1967 Crescendo Feb. 12/2 Buy Professor Jacko's ‘Gig-Book For All Occasions’. Gives melody line, chords and starting note for complete evening's gigging.

2011 V. VanSickle Love is Four-letter Word 15 ‘I really like the song.’ Brian winks at me. ‘Me, too... Do you need Nelu to give you a starting note?’

starting place n. the place in or from which a person or thing starts (in various senses); a starting point; (in later use sometimes spec.) the place occupied by a competitor at the beginning of a race.In quot. 1570: a refuge or loophole (cf. start v. 5b, starting-hole n. 2).

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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > starting-point

terminus a quo1549

starting place1570

terma1628

salient motion1664

salient pointa1682

punctum saliens1695

starting point1782

Adam and Eve1793

starting ground1802

point of departure1804

baseline1836

point de départ1848

zero1849

start point1860

jumping-board1878

jumping-off board1914

jumping-off point1927

starting block1932

square one1952

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting or finishing mark > starting mark

score1513

starting place1570

goal1589

barrier1600

lists1601

starting post1631

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start line1908

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mobile1969

1570 T. Tymme tr. A. Marlorat Catholike & Eccles. Expos. Mathewe (xxvi. 37) 650/1 Because this seemeth reprochfull to the glorye of Christe..manye interpreters haue carefully trauayled in seekinge startinge places [L. effugiis].

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxviii. 171 The Lorde of nature..by his direction in his word may bring them both from his appointment to their perfourmance, from the first starting place, to the outmost gole.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vi. 41 Your aduersarie at the start standes a iust quarter of a mile before you, and the signe beeing giuen, you both start, you haue then a quarter of a mile to runne before you come to his starting place.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) i. xxxi. 36 Injustice was used in the inequality of the starting-places.

1788 F. de la Concha Diary 16 Sept. in New Mexico Hist. Rev. 34 (1959) 299 About three leagues from the starting place, we found a small river with permanent water.

1804 Sporting Mag. Sept. 314/1 He started from Whitechapel turnpike, walked 30 miles, and back again to the starting place.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 510 Runners, who run well from the starting-place to the goal.

1927 S. Child Landscape Archit. 186 The ‘bird-men’ and ‘Zeppelinists’ who..are now demanding landing- and starting-places.

1990 A. Burton Cityscapes v. 59/1 The obvious starting place for exploration of the industrial past has to be the water, for rivers were the main transport routes and the source of power through the waterwheel.

2013 Timaru (N.Z.) Herald (Nexis) 22 Feb. 1 (caption) Handler Jacob Mayo heads to his station at the starting place for the first race of the day.

starting platform n. (a) a platform from which an operator controls the starting of machinery; (b) a raised platform mounted at the end of a pool from which a swimmer or swimmers begin a race; a starting block.

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1853 Pract. Mechanic's Jrnl. 5 100/2 The condenser fitted with an injection cock, and copper pipe ¹/ ₈ of an inch thick, and an index at the starting platform.

1920 Times of India 1 Oct. (Indian Engin. Suppl.) 1/3 This operation is effected by a small lever from the starting platform of the engine.

1922 Connersville (Indiana) News Examiner 4 Aug. 6/4 A special starting platform has been erected to give him and the other swimmers the best take off possible.

2004 B. Taylor Battlecruiser HMS Hood (2006) ii. 40/1 The critical level from an operational point of view was the control or starting platform lying against the forward bulkhead of each engine room.

2015 D. Davis Waterman xi. 87 Duke had developed a bad habit of diving into the water too close to the starting platform.

starting point n. the point from which a person or thing starts; a point of departure in a journey, argument, narration, development, etc.

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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > starting-point

terminus a quo1549

starting place1570

terma1628

salient motion1664

salient pointa1682

punctum saliens1695

starting point1782

Adam and Eve1793

starting ground1802

point of departure1804

baseline1836

point de départ1848

zero1849

start point1860

jumping-board1878

jumping-off board1914

jumping-off point1927

starting block1932

square one1952

1782 Hint to Patriot Parl. 13 As a starting point, let it [sc. the price of the stock] be stated at fifty-five, the price it bore when the late Ministry were dismissed.

1840 J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. Mar. 264 Every consistent scheme of philosophy requires as its starting-point, a theory respecting the sources of human knowledge.

1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xvii. 266 Here we met in the wilderness at about half way from our respective starting points.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §1. 60 The countries of Scandinavia which had so long been the mere starting-points of the pirate-bands.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 502 A neuro-paralytic hyperæmia..is sometimes the starting-point of eczema.

1902 Garden 10 May 302/3 To get into the heart of the Cherry country one can make Maidstone, Sittingbourne, or Faversham the starting point, and work through miles of orchards.

1961 H. D. Leeds & G. M. Weinberg Computer Programming Fund. iii. 75 The initialization would probably correspond to rewinding a magnetic tape to its starting point.

2014 Daily Tel. 1 Oct. (Business section) 4/7 Four years ago, Tunisia was the starting point for the political upheavals in the region.

starting post n. a post which marks the place from which the competitors in a race are to start; frequently figurative.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting or finishing mark > starting mark

score1513

starting place1570

goal1589

barrier1600

lists1601

starting post1631

scratch1772

starting line1812

mark1887

start line1908

gate1928

mobile1969

1631 W. Saltonstall Picturæ Loquentes xxiii. sig. E12^v The horses are brought hither in their night clothes, and from thence walke downe to the starting post.

1758 S. Johnson Idler 20 May 49 Let an Equestrian Statue of this Heroine be erected near the starting post on the heath of New Market.

1782 G. Selwyn Let. 13 Mar. in 15th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. Manuscripts (1897) App. vi. 593 He [sc. young Pitt] is at the head of a dozen young people, and it is a corps separate from that of Charles's; so there is another premier at the starting post, who, as yet, has never been shaved.

1852 J. F. Bateman Aquatic Notes 41 The starting-posts were 140 feet apart.

1892 B. F. Westcott Gospel of Life 46 It is as true in metaphysics as it is in physics that the goal of yesterday is the starting-post of to-day.

1903 Times of India 8 Aug. 7/1 The victory of Titus II. in the closed race was most easily gained after a most unconscionable delay at the starting post.

1944 Musical Times Apr. 109/1 Community singing had been in existence in many clubs and associations for some years; so this has been made the starting post for much wider musical experience.

2015 Uttoxeter Advertiser (Nexis) 21 Jan. 10 Uttoxeter Racecourse will be opening its gates for the event at 11am on Saturday... The first race will leave the starting post at 12.30pm.

starting powder n. †(a) a combustible powder whose ignition begins a firework's display, before any explosion, emission of stars, etc. (obsolete); (b) Materials Science a powder used as the starting material in the synthesis of products (esp. ceramics) by sintering.

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the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > parts of

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1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 135/2 Such are the starting-powder, which first catches the fire, the bursting-powder, which causes the final explosion, and the quick-match (cotton-wick, dried after being saturated with a paste of gunpowder and starch).

1956 Vacuum 6 232 Deoxidation is preferably effected by adding fixed amounts of carbon to the starting powder.

1991 Sci. News 21 Dec. 414/1 The finer the starting powder, the finer the grain in the finished ceramic.

2009 Ceramic Engin. & Sci. Proc. 30 1 The starting powder is a mixture of commercially available alumina, yttria, and neodymia powders.

starting price n. (a) the initial price of a commodity; (sometimes) spec. the price at which the bidding at an auction is started; (b) the final betting odds on a horse, dog, etc., at the time that a race starts.

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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > auction prices

sale price1793

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > odds > final odds

starting price1805

1805 Brit. Press 2 Feb. It was very erroneously conceived that the Boydell Lottery would so diminish the sale of Tickets in the present State Lottery, as to reduce them much below their starting price before the drawing.

1846 Sporting Mag. July 64 Within the last ten seasons the Ugly Buck, in 1844, at five to two as the starting price, Coldrenick, in 1842, at eleven to eight.

1854 Poultry Chron. 2 127 A great number of the lots were claimed at the starting price, 5s.

1860 Era 4 Nov. 3/3 The starting price of Defender was 4 to 1.

1888 Baily's Monthly Mag. May 189 General Williams had, we believe, a starting-price commission, but as a rule the followers of the stable did not touch her.

1907 Favourite 16 Nov. 9/2 Elfin Revel was a big starting-price job for the Croxteth Plate.

1990 B. Roche Poor Beast in Rain in Wexford Trilogy (1992) 70 Speaker. The starting price at Kempton... The Loafer eight-to-one. Eighteen ran.

2003 Wall St. Jrnl. 13 Oct. a9/1 IBM said that TotalStorage, with a starting price of $90,000, will be able to keep track of data in many different storage-area-networks.

starting salary n. the initial salary earned by an employee taking up a new post, or offered to a prospective employee.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > of non-manual workers > starting

starting salary1857

1857 Times 23 Sept. 2/6 (advt.) Junior clerk wanted... Starting salary £1 per week.

1892 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 18 June 1339/1 Canavese asks..how appointments as surgeon or medical officer to the Indian railways are obtained, what the starting salary is, and whether there is any restriction as to age.

1969 H. Perkin Key Profession iv. 138 New assistant lecturers and junior lecturers..came in..at starting salaries much lower than those in schoolteaching.

2010 Times Educ. Suppl. 2 Apr. 22 The minimum starting salary is £100,000.

starting torque n. the torque exerted by a motor when it starts from a stationary state.The starting torque is usually less than the torque when the motor is running at full speed.

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1887 Jrnl. Soc. Telegr. Engineers 15 543 This was got by very strongly exciting the fields to get the maximum starting torque as a motor.

1920 Whittaker's Electr. Engineer's Pocket-bk. (ed. 4) 552 Motors with squirrel-cage rotors require special features in the rotor to obtain large starting torque without large losses at normal load.

2011 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 3 Apr. f9/1 The electric motor also produces an impressive starting torque of 118 lb.-ft.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	starting
释义	startingn. Brit. /ˈstɑːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈstɑrdɪŋ/ Forms: see start v. and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: start v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < start v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action of start v. (in various senses); an instance of this.In earlier use typically in uses corresponding to senses at start v. I.Earliest in starting about: see Compounds 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [noun] > starting or springing back startinga1398 recoilment1651 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > leaping or springing suddenly startinga1398 bouncing1611 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] ordeOE thresholdeOE frumthc950 anginOE frumeOE worthOE beginninga1225 springc1225 springc1225 commencementc1250 ginninga1300 comsingc1325 entryc1330 aginning1340 alphac1384 incomea1400 formec1400 ingressc1420 birtha1425 principlea1449 comsementa1450 resultancec1450 inition1463 inceptiona1483 entering1526 originala1529 inchoation1530 opening1531 starting1541 principium1550 entrance1553 onset1561 rise1589 begin1590 ingate1591 overture1595 budding1601 initiationa1607 starting off1616 dawninga1631 dawn1633 impriminga1639 start1644 fall1647 initial1656 outset1664 outsettinga1698 going off1714 offsetting1782 offset1791 commence1794 aurora1806 incipiency1817 set-out1821 set-in1826 throw-off1828 go-off1830 outstart1844 start1857 incipience1864 oncome1865 kick-off1875 off-go1886 off1896 get-go1960 lift-off1967 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > [noun] > desertion of one's party or principles recreandisea1425 declining1526 declination1533 back-turning1535 defect1540 revoltc1576 falling off1577 apostasy1578 tergiversation1583 declension1597 recreancy1602 starting1602 recreantness1611 recession1614 turncoating1624 recreancea1632 diffidation1640 withdrawment1640 tergiversating1654 turning1665 ratting1789 renegadism1823 turncoatery1841 defection1884 turncoatism1889 society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with rope rope's enda1475 starting1802 rope's-ending1806 colting1834 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. lix. 1208 He [sc. the hert calf] is..swyft of cours and of rennyng... His fleissh is tendre..for his ofte moeuynge and startyng aboute [L. discursum]. a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) l. 7317 [Generides] stert a-side thoo; In the sterting the knife was nigh. a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 230 (MED) Ȝif he dye sodeynly as in playingis of balles and of stirtyngis, then he may and oweþ to be beryed in the beryinge place of Cristen men. 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) iii. i. 52 b Stertynge or saltion [other edd. salcion] of the members. 1602 in T. G. Law Archpriest Controv. (1898) II. 221 Which action, without waveringe or startinge, I did earnestly prosecute. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §713 Starting is both an Apprehension of the Thing feared;..And likewise an Inquisition, in the beginning, what the Matter should be. 1653 Bp. J. Taylor XXV Serm. i. 8 Thy falshod to God and startings from thy holy promises..shall be laid open before all the world. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 63 Before you paste your Paper on the form, first Tallow him, so will the Canvas and Paper slip off without starting or tearing. 1707 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Diverting Wks. 114 Omitting nothing that was necessary to be done, to prevent the starting of any Nullities in my Wedlock. 1726 J. Mitchell & A. Hill Fatal Extravagance iv. iv. 56 Can'st thou sleep, unstung, By guilty Startings, and remorseful Dreams? 1798 R. Jackson Outl. Hist. & Cure Fever 239 Tremors, startings, and the various irregular motions, which often appear in fever, are undoubtedly dangerous. 1802 Ann. Reg. 1801 (Otridge ed.) Chron. 44/2 [He] called to the boatswain to bring a point (a rope doubled with knots at the end), and give the plaintiff a ‘starting’. 1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 200/2 The expense will be abundantly repaid by the safety of the plants, and the earlier starting of the seeds. 1885 W. Pater Marius the Epicurean II. iv. xx. 100 Those noises in the house all supper-time..were they only startings in the old rafters? 1908 J. R. Smith Ocean Carrier ii. iii. 275 The starting of rival shipping lines is deterred by the certainty of fierce competition. 1919 Insurance Law Jrnl. 53 64 The accident occurring on the train was produced by a sudden starting of the train. 1924 Musical Times 1 Apr. 344 The limitations of the weekly article often lead to the mere starting of a hare. 1988 R. Gray in H. Bloom Franz Kafka's The Castle 52 There are no stoppings and startings in The Castle, characters do not appear only to disappear, but are interrelated from the first moment. 2012 C. Grover Flash CS6: Missing Man. v. 768 You can create a shortcut or drag the file to your Windows taskbar for quicker starting. b. at starting: at the beginning of a race or journey; (more generally) at the outset. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > at the beginning [phrase] at firstc1300 at (also in) the first bruntc1450 at the first chop1528 at hand1558 at the first jump1577 at starting1674 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xxxi. 54 Many Charrets appearing at the first starting with new wheels well greased.] 1674 J. Dryden et al. Notes Empress of Morocco sig. A4^v One would think by the horrid bluster that he made at Starting..that for certain he must be some extraordinary inspired mortal, his Play some very transcendent piece. 1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. xi. 9/1 When a Plate is run for by Heats, every Man that rides must weight just at Starting in great Scales brought into the Field for that purpose. 1748 Whitehall Evening-post 13–15 Sept. The Odds, at starting, were on Babram. 1782 D. Hartley Let. 8 July in B. Franklin Papers (2003) XXXVII. 594 Were I treating with an enemy..for a barrier town..nothing..would be so absurd as to give it up at starting, as a fixed article before the treaty. 1834 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. I. ix. 134 It is given you in order that you may find it easy to obey at starting. 1868 Field 18 July 49/1 The favourite, taking a clear lead at starting, made all the running, and won in a canter by a couple of lengths. 1883 A. Thomas Mod. Housewife 144 At starting let me say that [etc.]. 1902 J. S. Fletcher Hist. St. Leger Stakes 114 Quid was exceedingly restless at starting, and ran restive all the way. 1977 N.Z. Jrnl. Exper. Agric. 5 3/2 The mean weight of all calves at starting was 37.8..kg. †c. starting of the navel n. Obsolete umbilical hernia (protrusion of a portion of bowel from the umbilicus), esp. in an infant; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of abdomen or diaphragm > [noun] > hernia of umbilicus navel-burst1589 omphalocele1653 starting of the navel1687 navel-rupture1698 exomphalos1754 paromphalocele1857 1687 Chirurgorum Comes iii. vii. xxx. 595/2 Avicen adds ἐξόμϕαλον, that is, the starting of the Navel, or a Rupture there. 1753 J. Wesley Christian Libr. XXVII. 64 But although he had much recovered his Health, without going to the Bath, yet the Starting of his Navel was not fully cured. 1797 M. Underwood Treat. Disorders Childhood II. 129 It has been said, that startings of the navel more commonly happen to such infants, in whom the skin of the belly has extended further than is common upon the navel-string. 1857 R. Barwell Care of Sick (ed. 2) ii. 26 Another form of rupture is that, which is usually called ‘starting of the navel’; it sometimes is present at birth, but comes on more frequently about the time when the navel-string falls off. 1914 R. Howard Pract. Surg. xxi. 748 The symptoms are the presence of a soft swelling at the umbilicus (‘starting of the navel’ or ‘windy navel’), which increases when the child cries. 2. In plural. That with which, or from which, something starts or may be started; the beginnings of something. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun] > bringing into action > setting in operation streeking?a1500 start1680 startings1907 turn-on1962 1907 Ohio Archaeol. & Hist. Q. July 402 Probably no one living has so much knowledge ‘at first hand’ of the startings of our state history. 1912 Outlook 6 Apr. 789/1 Despite his long-continued..contempt for ‘politics’, he actually felt the startings of an ambition to ‘run it’. 1956 J. H. Griffin Nuni xx. 140 I swallow back the startings of nausea. 2012 R. Fernando Homesick (2013) 104 Above his lip grew the startings of a moustache. Compounds C1. a. With following adverb, forming nouns of action corresponding to phrasal verbs at start v.With quot. a1398 cf. start v. 3b. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. lix. 1208 He [sc. the hert calf] is..swyft of cours and of rennyng... His fleissh is tendre..for his ofte moeuynge and startyng aboute [L. discursum]. 1570 T. Tymme tr. J. Brenz Newes from Niniue to Eng. f. 20 Hitherto hath bene described the secure and disobedient fleeing and starting aside of Ionas. 1600 R. G. Famous Hist. Albions Queene sig. K He writeth to her of the starting away of Winchester his chiefe Counseller. 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 128 She..seemed to stumble (in her starting back) at the foot of the Table, and thereby fell. 1767 J. Bate Critica Hebræa 496/1 It is the starting aside, in their affections, the context speaks of. 1892 A. B. Dodd In & Out of 3 Normandy Inns (1899) xxix. 338 A starting forth was the signal for the village to assemble about the char-a-banc's wheels. 1900 Kulp's Luzerne Legal Reg. Rep. 9 32 Between the times of his starting forward and the accident, a car coming at the ordinary speed would not have arrived. 2008 E. Barnes Walk with me Today, Lord 34 All of us will hit the wall at some point in our starting over. b. starting off n. the action of to start off at start v. Phrasal verbs 1; in later use frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] ordeOE thresholdeOE frumthc950 anginOE frumeOE worthOE beginninga1225 springc1225 springc1225 commencementc1250 ginninga1300 comsingc1325 entryc1330 aginning1340 alphac1384 incomea1400 formec1400 ingressc1420 birtha1425 principlea1449 comsementa1450 resultancec1450 inition1463 inceptiona1483 entering1526 originala1529 inchoation1530 opening1531 starting1541 principium1550 entrance1553 onset1561 rise1589 begin1590 ingate1591 overture1595 budding1601 initiationa1607 starting off1616 dawninga1631 dawn1633 impriminga1639 start1644 fall1647 initial1656 outset1664 outsettinga1698 going off1714 offsetting1782 offset1791 commence1794 aurora1806 incipiency1817 set-out1821 set-in1826 throw-off1828 go-off1830 outstart1844 start1857 incipience1864 oncome1865 kick-off1875 off-go1886 off1896 get-go1960 lift-off1967 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iv. v, in Wks. I. 582 Why, this is strange starting off, when a man vnder-takes for you! View more context for this quotation 1821 M. Edgeworth Let. 29 Jan. (1971) 235 I hope this can be arranged as I found it a starting off point and I could not conclude the agreement without it. 1840 M. Howitt Hope On! Hope Ever! xiv. 156 The sound would have been lost..in the clattering starting off of four coaches at one and the same moment. 1895 R. Kipling in Cent. Mag. 51 265/2 There was the same ‘starting-off place’—a pile of brushwood. 1915 V. Thurstan Field Hosp. & Flying Column ix. 146 It was very interesting these startings off into the unknown, with our little fleet of automobiles containing ourselves and our equipment. 1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. ii. 54 Activation, or the starting-off of the egg on development. 1999 G. Cox Dict. Sport v. 174/1 A gymnast will use the same starting-off procedure as for the handstand. 2012 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 10 Dec. 53 The starting off of the ‘Foundation of Hearts’ was more of a bad joke than a serious offer. starting up n. the action of to start up at start v. Phrasal verbs 1 (in various senses); in later use frequently attributive (in sense to start up 2 at Phrasal verbs 1). ΚΠ 1567 T. Stapleton Counterblast iii. xxxvii. f. 361^v In the first starting vppe of your Apostle, I shoulde saye Apostata Martin Luther. a1626 L. Andrewes Certaine Serm. 17 in XCVI Serm. (1629) The Poore..have received greater helpe in this Realme within these forty yeares last past, since (not, the starting up of our Church, as they fondly use to speake, but since) the reforming ours from the error of theirs. a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) Introd. 30 The ancient Fathers, who lived and flourished..before the starting up of the Pelagian Controversies. 1722 D. Turner Art of Surg. II. vii. 147 Some Bearing or Protuberance happening by the starting up of the Bone. 1782 Universal Mag. Apr. 200/2 Let our success be what it might be for a time, a defeat at sea, a disaster by land, or the starting up of a new enemy, would destroy it. 1802 Med. Repository 5 133 A starting up in bed, with a wildness of countenance, and an absence of all sense of time and place. 1885 Cent. Mag. May 35/2 He [sc. a greyhound] is taken into a field, there to await the starting-up of the hare by beaters employed for that purpose. 1902 Electr. Catech. xi. 164 A small induction motor is mounted on the shaft or arranged to be belted to the synchronous motor shaft during the starting-up period. 1946 Happy Landings July 1/1 The engine was not turned by hand through one cycle before the starting-up operation. 1993 R. K. Loewen Family, Church, & Market vi. 115 Starting-up costs in Manitoba were considerably higher than those in Nebraska and Kansas. 2002 G. Hill Orchards of Syon xliii. 43 Such startings-up, slouchings, of self-hatred; a sullen belch from the ice-maker in the small hours. C2. attributive in various uses relating to senses of start v. II. a. (a) With reference to the starting of a race (esp. in Horse Racing).Earliest in starting post n. at Compounds 4. starting list n. ΚΠ 1848 Bell's Life in London 30 Jan. 4/2 It is hardly likely that more than one [horse] from each stable will be comprised in the starting list on the day of the race. 1903 Motor 30 Sept. 182/1 The luck of the draw had assigned us the 70th place on the starting list. 1953 Motor Boating Oct. 35/2 This year's starting list was the smallest to date. 2014 Sligo Champion (Nexis) 1 July 52 Our Grand Prix show last year drew a starting list of over 90 horse/rider combinations for the main class. starting machine n. ΚΠ 1847 Era 15 Aug. 3/4 To-day we had the introduction of a newly invented starting machine, produced by Mr. Easthope..who is now in communication with the racing authorities in Southampton. 1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 190/1 [In article Racing] The Starter's duties are at present threatened with supersession by the introduction of the ‘starting machine’, a colonial invention. 1902 Washington Post 29 Oct. 8/3 The feature at the Fair Grounds track to-day was the first official test of a starting machine. 2008 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 31 May 71 There are 63 sheltered and irrigated paddocks, while it even has an eight-horse starting machine and swimming facilities. starting stalls n. ΚΠ 1885 E. S. Shuckburgh tr. Cicero in Cicero Laelius Notes 104 That you may, as the saying is, reach the goal with those with whom you set off from what one may call the starting-stalls [L. tamquam a carceribus]. 1927 Washington Post 12 Dec. 13/3 Marshall Cassidy's new starting stalls were tried out for the first time on a muddy track yesterday and perfect results followed. 1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 495/1 The starter lines up the competitors in the correct order in their starting stalls (where these are used, otherwise behind the starting ‘gate’). 2004 Racing Ahead June 36/1 The speed she showed on leaving the starting stalls made me fear the worst. † starting stoop n. [stoop n.¹] Obsolete ΚΠ 1665 Rules Horse-coursing at Leith (Edinb. Town Council) (single sheet) Each Horse that Runs, is to be led out to the starting-stoup, one hours space before Low-water. 1708 London Gaz. No. 4450/4 The Horses to be enter'd at the Starting-Stoop 10 Days before the Race. 1791 J. Learmont Poems Pastoral 65 The only twa things he ca's guid 'S a startin' stupe—a horse o' bluid. 1876 W. Cudworth Round about Bradford 414 Prior to 1810..horse races were annually held on the moor. The ‘starting post’ was near to a farmstead which is still called the ‘Starting Stoop’.] (b) Designating a device used to give the signal which marks the start of a race, as starting gun, starting horn, starting pistol, etc. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting signal startc1612 starting1827 flag1856 red flag1893 gun1900 1827 P. Egan Anecd. Turf 296 At a quarter before two o'clock, the starting gun fired at Blackfriars' Bridge. 1830 Bell's Life in London 31 Jan. The starting-bell rings—oh! the twang of that bell Is worse than ‘King Duncan's’ funeral knell. 1830 Morning Chron. 25 June Precisely at twenty-three minutes to five o'clock the starting pistol was fired. 1903 Amer. Wool & Cotton Reporter 15 Oct. 1275/1 The 15th of October is here and about this time the starting gun for the opening of the clothiers' season is sounded. 1908 Automobile Topics 10 Oct. 22/2 It was 8.46 when the starting horn was blown. 1935 ‘N. Blake’ Question of Proof ii. 30 Get set! Go!! That was the starting-pistol you heard. 1937 Flight 22 July 99/1 Their team was routed out of bed, the Sportleitung was awakened and requested to blow the official starting hooter, and the Falcon got into the air again at 6.30 a.m. 1961 Rotarian May 38/1 The starting pistol cracked. The first runners shot from their starting block. 1995 W. Pasnak Sink or Swim xiii. 78 Now, all of you, set your watches and prepare to cast off. The first starting horn will sound at exactly ten o'clock. 2001 Brit. Bandsman 8 Sept. 13 The British Open Championships are the starting pistol for the contesting season and this year 21 bands are squaring up for battle, including debutantes, Kirkintilloch, which has made it though for the first time in its 112-year history. 2012 J. Link & C. Link Why can't I get my Kids to Behave? i. 4 The race is starting, and he is in position with the other runners, waiting for the starting gun to go off. b. In more general attributive use, esp. in the sense ‘at or from which to start something’ or ‘at or from which something starts’.Earliest in starting point n. at Compounds 4. ΚΠ 1782 Hint to Patriot Parl. 13 As a starting point, let it [sc. the price of the stock] be stated at fifty-five, the price it bore when the late Ministry were dismissed. 1831 Edinb. Lit. Jrnl. 8 Jan. 28/2 As the starting note in music regulates and characterises the tune, so the starting number [of a publication] may safely be considered not only as a first, but as a fair specimen of the whole. 1867 Rep. Inspecting Officers upon Certain Accidents occurred on Railways (House of Lords Committee Privy Council for Trade) I. 7/1 Lamkin says that he then put on the starting signal at the east end of the Farringdon Street station to danger. 1899 Theosophist July 612 Taking for granted the year 543 B.C. as the starting date of the Parinirvâna, I noted [etc.]. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 30 Mar. 5/2 For starting purposes supplementary power is obtained by means of an electric machine. 1946 Man. Operation Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Harvard Computation Lab.) vi. 299 Operating Instructions..Five cards, labeled ‘starting cards’, must be placed in card feed I. 1990 Midwest Living Feb. 28/2 The inn is a great starting spot for shopping the 22 Victorian-themed shops and boutiques. 2009 Nature 15 Jan. 239/1 The organocatalyst helps the first two starting materials to react. c. Designating an amount, arrangement, selection, etc., as fixed or obtaining at the beginning of something; as, a price at the start of an auction, the particular choice of a team at the start of a sporting contest, etc.Earliest in starting price n. at Compounds 4.Some instances could alternatively be interpreted as showing starting adj. (cf. starting adj. 3). Cf. opening adj. 2b, 2c. ΚΠ 1809 Bury & Norwich Post 1 Feb. The few remaining Tickets on sale, after the commencement of the late Lottery, rose from their starting price to 56l and upwards. 1841 New Eng. Farmer 3 Nov. 138/1 The prices heretofore given for the best short-horned Durham, will be no more than a ‘starting bid’ for them. 1853 Boston Daily Atlas 14 Nov. This season the probability is that $4a4,25 will be the starting rates. 1921 Ohio State Univ. Monthly Dec. 9/1 It was the first Conference contest in which Isabel had appeared in the starting line-up. 1950 H. Goldstein Classical Mech. (1951) ix. 288 Since q and p return to their original starting values in one period, the system point retraces its steps every period, and the orbit in phase space is closed. 1963 New Scientist 11 Apr. 113/3 (advt.) Salary starting rate will be assessed according to experience and qualifications. 2011 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 2 Dec. Auckland's starting 11 is unlikely to resemble the one that will take the field in Nagoya in a week's time. d. (a) Designating a device, apparatus, etc., used in starting machinery. ΚΠ 1907 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 3 Aug. 70/2 The starting pistons revolve the motor shaft by means of racks acting on a pinion. 1910 R. Ferris How it Flies vi. 114 The Wright machine..was still dependent upon a starting device to enable it to leave the ground. 1940 N.Y. Times 16 Jan. 43/1 The starting battery must deliver a high current to meet the high torque requirements. 1971 Gloss. Electrotechnical, Power Terms (B.S.I.) ii. iii. 15 Starting winding, a winding, the purpose of which is to produce torque for starting a machine. 2015 Knox (Victoria, Austral.) Leader (Nexis) 17 Mar. 3 Brivis recalled the coolers when they found a defect in some of the starting devices on the supply fan motors. (b) starting-bar n. ΚΠ 1833 Mechanics' Mag. 6 Apr. 8/2 The starting-bar c works on a centre d in the wiper-shaft. 1963 J. T. Rowland North to Adventure x. 147 Bob returned to his post, beside the engine, starting-bar in hand. 2012 N. Robins Coming of Comet iii. 38 To start the engine, to coax it into motion, the engineer had a starting bar. starting cord n. ΚΠ 1866 U.S. Patent 53,904 3/1 The combination, with the stopping and starting cord or rod of a hoisting apparatus, of the valves of a liquid-stop apparatus and the steam-valve or movable seat of the steam-engine motor operating substantially as described. 1929 Forest & Stream Feb. 118/2 He wound the starting cord into the groove on the flywheel and then gave it a mighty heave. 2007 Yachting Mar. 122/3 You..yanked for all you were worth, hopeful that the engine would start and that the end of the starting cord would not injure anyone else in the boat. starting gear n. ΚΠ 1842 S. Clegg Archit. Machinery 37 Smaller pedestals..support the bearings of the starting gear of marine engines. 1910 Manch. Guardian 9 Nov. 12/2 The S.C.A.T. cars..enjoy the distinction of being among the very few cars having automatic starting gear. 2008 J. Pilbeam et al. Electr. Workmanship Level 3 v. 219 Single-phase AC motors need some kind of starting gear or control gear to help them start up. starting panel n. ΚΠ 1898 Amer. Electrician 10 492/3 A starting panel..of polished black slate, located close to the motors, so that the attendant could control both the brake and the starting levers and switches. 1913 J. B. Bishop Panama Gateway v. v. 376 A starting panel containing contractors by which current is applied to the motor. 2003 T. L. Koglin Movable Bridge Engin. xviii. 291 It may also require groping in the dark to locate the starting panel and get the generator running. starting switch n. ΚΠ 1892 L. Bell in T. C. Martin & J. Wetzler Electric Motor (new ed.) 305/1 On its pole piece will be noticed a starting switch, which is supplied to all the small motors for starting and stopping, and in some cases for regulating. 1925 Morris Owner's Man. 9 The engine starting switch is controlled by a round black knob on the left-hand side of the dashboard. 2007 T. D. Thornton Not by Long Shot vii. 324 Tom Schwigen instantly flicks his starting switch, releasing the electromagnetic lock holding closed the massive front doors of the barrier. starting valve n. ΚΠ 1840 P. R. Hodge Steam Engine vi. 229 The steam enters through the starting-valve, the handle of which is seen in plan and elevation. 1912 Times of India 12 Jan. 15/3 Reversing in this engine is accomplished..by turning a subsidiary shaft through the required angle, a motion which by means of levers and eccentrics alters the position of the cam operating the fuel and starting valve levers. 2004 D. Woodyard Pounder's Marine Diesel Engines & Gas Turbines (ed. 8) xiii. 464 The starting air system contains a main starting valve (two ball valves with actuators), a non-return valve, a starting air distributor and starting valves. starting wheel n. ΚΠ 1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 210/1 By this judicious and elegant expedient the starting wheel can never be driven by the engine. 1929 Jrnl. Royal United Service Inst. Feb. 122 A skilled Engine-room Artificer was sent on to the forecastle to manipulate the starting wheel. 2007 W. Sargent Just Seconds from Ocean 1 The barge owner wraps a piece of old frayed cord around the starting wheel and pulls—nothing. †C3. Used attributively with reference to the discharging of beer, water, etc., from one container into another (cf. start v. 14b, 14c). Cf. starting beer n. at Compounds 4. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1738 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer III. vi. 20 Where it [sc. beer] can be carried by the Leather-pipe from the Tun, Cooler, or Starting-tub into the Cask. 1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) II. 159 Though he thus sold by the false Cask, he bought by the true gaged starting Barrel. 1800 P. Boyle Publican & Spirit Dealers' Daily Compan. (ed. 6) 96 For removing of a butt of beer from a starting cellar abroad into the home cellar. 1832 B. Hall Fragm. Voy. & Trav. 2nd Ser. I. viii. 229 It [sc. water] was poured into a starting-tub at the hatchway, and so conveyed by a pipe to the casks in the hold. 1853 Southern Lit. Messenger May 281/1 Placing a starting-tub, (that is, a large tub having a hole in its bottom communicating with a leather tube or hose,) about twelve feet above the surface of the bay. C4. † starting back n. [ < starting n. + back n.²] Whaling Obsolete a cistern in which blubber is placed before it is discharged into a boiler. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > cutting up whale or seal > [noun] > container for blubber fenk(s)-back1820 starting back1820 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 398 An oblong wooden cistern, called the ‘starting-back’, is usually erected, for containing blubber. a1823 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XV. 207/1 The casks being raised to the starting back are emptied of their contents, from which the blubber passes into the copper boiler. starting beer n. now historical and rare (apparently) a kind of weak or medium-strength beer.The semantic motivation is unclear, as is the precise meaning; perhaps cf. slightly later Compounds 3 for starting n. Perhaps cf. keeping-beer at keeping n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [noun] > other kinds of beer spruce beerc1500 March beer1535 Lubecks beer1608 zythum1608 household beer1616 bottle1622 mumc1623 old beer1626 six1631 four1633 maize beer1663 mum beer1667 vinegar beer1677 wrest-beer1689 nog1693 October1705 October beer1707 ship-beer1707 butt beer1730 starting beer1735 butt1743 peterman1767 seamen's beer1795 chang1800 treacle beer1806 stock beer1826 Iceland beer1828 East India pale ale1835 India pale ale1837 faro1847 she-oak1848 Bass1849 bitter beer1850 bock1856 treble X1856 Burton1861 nettle beer1864 honey beer1867 pivo1873 Lambic1889 steam beer1898 barley-beer1901 gueuze1926 Kriek1936 best1938 rough1946 keg1949 IPA1953 busaa1967 mbege1972 microbrew1985 microbeer1986 yeast-beer- 1735 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer I. viii. 40 (heading) For brewing common brown Ale and Starting beer. 1756 T. Hale et al. Compl. Body Husbandry xi. vi. 602/2 The common brown Ale, or as they call it starting Beer, is made in the same Manner as the Stout; but a larger Quantity is brewed from the same Portion of Malt. 2012 Brewery Hist. No. 145. 21/2 She..set about collecting enough cash to save the brewery, which was now desperate even for money to buy starting beer. starting bolt n. Nautical A long bolt or pin, usually made of steel, used to drive another bolt out of its hole. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > punch or drift for extracting bolts drive bolt1627 set-bolt1627 starting bolt1780 1780 Boyer's Dictionnaire Royal (rev. ed.) I. 493/3 Rebouse,..a starting bolt. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Starting-Bolt, or Drift-bolt, a bolt used to drive out another; it is usually a trifle smaller. 1909 Jrnl. Amer. Soc. Naval Engineers Nov. 1187 Starting bolts are provided for the main joints of all turbines, but none are provided for the astern turbines. 2002 J. Stockwin Artemis vii. 160 An' the carpenter, when he wants t' move a contrary bolt, he starts it with a starting bolt. starting box n. a rheostat used to control the current when starting an electric motor. ΚΠ 1890 Science 1 Aug. 58/1 A perspective view of a motor, with sliding base and starting-box complete. 1930 Sel. Gloss. Motion Picture Techncian (Acad. Motion Pictures, Hollywood) Starting box, rheostat used to control current supplied to a motor during starting, to prevent damage to the motor winding. 2012 S. L. Herman Direct Current Fund. (ed. 8) xxii. 407 The three-terminal starting box is not suited for use where a field rheostat is used to obtain above-normal speeds. starting gate n. Sport (originally Australian) a restraining structure incorporating a barrier that is raised or pushed aside at the start of a race, esp. in horse racing and skiing, to ensure a simultaneous start for all competitors or to ensure consistent timing of each competitor; also figurative and in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting or finishing mark > point from which individuals timed starting gate1893 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > racecourse > [noun] > starting-point starting gate1893 tape1957 1893 Argus (Melbourne) 16 Aug. 10/5 It is the intention of the Oakleigh Racing Club to use the starting-gate publicly for the first time at their meeting on Friday next. 1896 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 26 Feb. 4/7 The Australian starting gate will be used on the courses. 1930 Times 24 Mar. 4/2 Numbered saddle cloths, the starting-gate, and the totalisator are among the reforms which came from them. 1940 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Georgics i. 31 When racing chariots have rushed from the starting-gate. 1954 N.Y. Times 21 Mar. (Sports section) 3/8 Despite a fall at the starting gate, Reddish covered the 1.7 mile course with a 2,800 drop in 2:46:4. 1971 Language 47 5 Acceptance of this very general position..does little more than put one in the proper starting gate. 1976 New Yorker 8 Mar. 105/1 Mount Sterling stumbled coming out of the starting gate, unseating his rider, Maple. 2006 D. G. Schwartz Roll Bones xvi. 371 They..used technology, including improved starting gates and photo-finish cameras, to make races fairer. starting grid n. a pattern of lines marked at the starting point of a motor race, indicating the positions in which the competitors are to line up; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] > course or track > starting grid starting grid1935 grid1951 1935 Irish Times 1 July 4/4 In view of the advantage of having a front place on the starting grid, riders may be expected to take the practising seriously. 1937 Telegraph (Brisbane) 18 Mar. The entries [in the Australian Grand Prix for motorcyclists] in the order in which they will line up on the starting grid are: [etc.]. 1957 S. Moss In Track of Speed xiii. 161 On the first line of the starting grid were Fangio and myself on Mercedes and Ascari on a Lancia. 2006 Australian (Nexis) 29 June 33 Not even the prospect of carrying two metal pins in his shoulders was going to stop Victoria's irrepressible Simon Gerrans from getting to the starting grid of this year's Tour de France. 2014 A. Pritchard Grand Prix Ferrari 24/2 In practice, Ascari was fastest, and alongside him on the front row of the starting grid were Villoresi, Farina and Sommer. starting ground n. (a) a basis from which something (e.g. a sequence of events or an argument) starts; (b) the place where those taking part in a race, hunt, etc., gather before starting. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > basis or foundation > [noun] ground1340 root1340 substancec1384 fundament1395 foundationc1400 groundment?a1412 footing1440 anvila1450 bottom ground1557 groundwork1557 foot1559 platform1568 subsistence1586 subject matter1600 ground-colour1614 basisa1616 substratum1631 basement1637 bottoma1639 fonda1650 fibre1656 fund1671 fundamen1677 substruction1765 starting ground1802 fundus1839 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > starting-point terminus a quo1549 starting place1570 terma1628 salient motion1664 salient pointa1682 punctum saliens1695 starting point1782 Adam and Eve1793 starting ground1802 point of departure1804 baseline1836 point de départ1848 zero1849 start point1860 jumping-board1878 jumping-off board1914 jumping-off point1927 starting block1932 square one1952 1802 A. Bishop Proofs Conspiracy against Christianity i. iv. 16 Church and state was their starting ground, and human glory the end of their career. 1803 tr. Sophocles in B. Boothby tr. J. Racine Britannicus Pref. 27 Orestes..Leaps the high barrier at a single bound, And lights a-tiptoe on the starting ground. 1824 Kent & Essex Mercury 27 Apr. By one o'clock the whole of the starting-ground was covered with barouches, carriages, gigs, chaises, &c. 1869 Duke of Argyll Primeval Man iv. 145 Man..must always have had instincts which afford all that is required as a starting-ground for advance in the mechanical arts. 1901 Scotsman 24 Dec. 7/3 The old villa of Kirklands if gutted out would make an excellent club house close to the proposed new starting ground. 1961 Flight Mar. 82/2 The big propeller would have to run at full horsepower in order to raise the plane from so small a starting ground. 2011 S. G. Feinstein & R. W. Kiner Brain & Strengths Based School Leadership ii. 43 These [indicators] represent the starting ground for building and maintaining a positive school climate. starting handle n. a handle used to start a machine; spec. a detachable one that is turned to start the engine of a motor vehicle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > starting handle starting handle1836 starter pack1955 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > parts of > starters fire syringe1822 starting handle1836 magneto1882 self-starter1884 plug1886 gas starter1898 ignition plug1900 sparking plug1902 spark plug1903 dual ignition1909 impulse coupling1916 impulse starter1916 kick-starter1916 mag1918 cut-in1921 cartridge starter1922 recoil starter1931 glow plug1947 ignition1961 1836 6th Rep. Comm. Managem. Post-office Dept. App. 168 (table) in Parl. Papers XXVIII. 145 Engine..starting handle. 1886 D. Clerk Gas Engine ix. 242 The starting handle is then let go, and the motor piston runs over its ports. 1932 D. L. Sayers Have his Carcase xii. 145 After..exercise on the starting-handle, they had diagnosed trouble with the ignition. 1973 P. Audemars Delicate Dust of Death x. 136 They left the bus... Perhaps they could not start it... I tried the starting handle myself. It was jammed. 2001 Automobile June 90/1 I suppose it's inevitable to get bitten by a starting handle once in a while, but after 43 years' experience of cranking ancient cars I'd hoped to have avoided serious harm at this stage. starting line n. a real or imaginary line used to mark the place from which a race starts; also figurative and in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting or finishing mark > starting mark score1513 starting place1570 goal1589 barrier1600 lists1601 starting post1631 scratch1772 starting line1812 mark1887 start line1908 gate1928 mobile1969 1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair iv. xxxvii. 87 By Jove, they both have reach'd the base together, Gain'd is the starting-line, yet gain'd the race hath neither! 1880 G. C. Davies Pract. Boat Sailing 136 The yachts have all sail set and are under weigh, but have to keep behind the starting line. 1898 Morning Post 8 Sept. 6/1 When at nine o'clock the Southern Army began to move across its starting line it offered a splendid spectacle. 1905 Times of India 6 Feb. 7/2 General Stackelberg..had the Hun River valley..for his starting line. 1920 Isis 13 Oct. 2/2 Ten yards is allotted each side of the starting line in which to pass the baton to the next competitor. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio x. 173 Anything but sheer surrealism was doomed to remain stickily on the starting-line. 1974 Howard Jrnl. 14 84 In a meritocratic society those whose powers of oral and written expression are extremely limited are left at the starting line in the race for social status. 2002 L. Callahan Fitness Factor ii. 13 Joanne was making two common mistakes that had to be corrected before she could even get to the starting line of a successful exercise program. 2012 S. Large Crazy Enough vii. 81 Ten two-man boats lined up at the starting line. starting note n. the note from which a melody starts; also figurative and in extended use.Earliest used with reference to Scottish traditional music, to denote a note that precedes the first accented note of a melody. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > anacrusis starting note1793 1793 R. Burns Let. Apr. (1985) II. 196 That business of many of our tunes wanting at the begin^g what Fiddlers call, a starting-note, is often a rub to us poor Rhymers. 1793 R. Burns Let. Sept. (2003) II. 245 The old way, & the way to give most effect, is to have no starting note, as the Fiddlers call it, but to burst at once into the pathos. 1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 170/2 He adorned his discourses with that melodious tone which some call the Cameronian drawl... Each sentence has a kind of starting note. 1838 W. Dauney Anc. Scotish Melodies App. 326 Taking any of the sounds, d, e, &c. as the starting note, and running through the diatonic scale up to the octave. 1901 Internat. Monthly 4 175 When the organist gives the starting-note, for the subsequent stanza [of a hymn], after a bold progress through several foreign keys, he will find his entire congregation..entering timidly and without vigor. 1967 Crescendo Feb. 12/2 Buy Professor Jacko's ‘Gig-Book For All Occasions’. Gives melody line, chords and starting note for complete evening's gigging. 2011 V. VanSickle Love is Four-letter Word 15 ‘I really like the song.’ Brian winks at me. ‘Me, too... Do you need Nelu to give you a starting note?’ starting place n. the place in or from which a person or thing starts (in various senses); a starting point; (in later use sometimes spec.) the place occupied by a competitor at the beginning of a race.In quot. 1570: a refuge or loophole (cf. start v. 5b, starting-hole n. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > starting-point terminus a quo1549 starting place1570 terma1628 salient motion1664 salient pointa1682 punctum saliens1695 starting point1782 Adam and Eve1793 starting ground1802 point of departure1804 baseline1836 point de départ1848 zero1849 start point1860 jumping-board1878 jumping-off board1914 jumping-off point1927 starting block1932 square one1952 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting or finishing mark > starting mark score1513 starting place1570 goal1589 barrier1600 lists1601 starting post1631 scratch1772 starting line1812 mark1887 start line1908 gate1928 mobile1969 1570 T. Tymme tr. A. Marlorat Catholike & Eccles. Expos. Mathewe (xxvi. 37) 650/1 Because this seemeth reprochfull to the glorye of Christe..manye interpreters haue carefully trauayled in seekinge startinge places [L. effugiis]. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxviii. 171 The Lorde of nature..by his direction in his word may bring them both from his appointment to their perfourmance, from the first starting place, to the outmost gole. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vi. 41 Your aduersarie at the start standes a iust quarter of a mile before you, and the signe beeing giuen, you both start, you haue then a quarter of a mile to runne before you come to his starting place. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) i. xxxi. 36 Injustice was used in the inequality of the starting-places. 1788 F. de la Concha Diary 16 Sept. in New Mexico Hist. Rev. 34 (1959) 299 About three leagues from the starting place, we found a small river with permanent water. 1804 Sporting Mag. Sept. 314/1 He started from Whitechapel turnpike, walked 30 miles, and back again to the starting place. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 510 Runners, who run well from the starting-place to the goal. 1927 S. Child Landscape Archit. 186 The ‘bird-men’ and ‘Zeppelinists’ who..are now demanding landing- and starting-places. 1990 A. Burton Cityscapes v. 59/1 The obvious starting place for exploration of the industrial past has to be the water, for rivers were the main transport routes and the source of power through the waterwheel. 2013 Timaru (N.Z.) Herald (Nexis) 22 Feb. 1 (caption) Handler Jacob Mayo heads to his station at the starting place for the first race of the day. starting platform n. (a) a platform from which an operator controls the starting of machinery; (b) a raised platform mounted at the end of a pool from which a swimmer or swimmers begin a race; a starting block. ΚΠ 1853 Pract. Mechanic's Jrnl. 5 100/2 The condenser fitted with an injection cock, and copper pipe ¹/ ₈ of an inch thick, and an index at the starting platform. 1920 Times of India 1 Oct. (Indian Engin. Suppl.) 1/3 This operation is effected by a small lever from the starting platform of the engine. 1922 Connersville (Indiana) News Examiner 4 Aug. 6/4 A special starting platform has been erected to give him and the other swimmers the best take off possible. 2004 B. Taylor Battlecruiser HMS Hood (2006) ii. 40/1 The critical level from an operational point of view was the control or starting platform lying against the forward bulkhead of each engine room. 2015 D. Davis Waterman xi. 87 Duke had developed a bad habit of diving into the water too close to the starting platform. starting point n. the point from which a person or thing starts; a point of departure in a journey, argument, narration, development, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > starting-point terminus a quo1549 starting place1570 terma1628 salient motion1664 salient pointa1682 punctum saliens1695 starting point1782 Adam and Eve1793 starting ground1802 point of departure1804 baseline1836 point de départ1848 zero1849 start point1860 jumping-board1878 jumping-off board1914 jumping-off point1927 starting block1932 square one1952 1782 Hint to Patriot Parl. 13 As a starting point, let it [sc. the price of the stock] be stated at fifty-five, the price it bore when the late Ministry were dismissed. 1840 J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. Mar. 264 Every consistent scheme of philosophy requires as its starting-point, a theory respecting the sources of human knowledge. 1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xvii. 266 Here we met in the wilderness at about half way from our respective starting points. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §1. 60 The countries of Scandinavia which had so long been the mere starting-points of the pirate-bands. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 502 A neuro-paralytic hyperæmia..is sometimes the starting-point of eczema. 1902 Garden 10 May 302/3 To get into the heart of the Cherry country one can make Maidstone, Sittingbourne, or Faversham the starting point, and work through miles of orchards. 1961 H. D. Leeds & G. M. Weinberg Computer Programming Fund. iii. 75 The initialization would probably correspond to rewinding a magnetic tape to its starting point. 2014 Daily Tel. 1 Oct. (Business section) 4/7 Four years ago, Tunisia was the starting point for the political upheavals in the region. starting post n. a post which marks the place from which the competitors in a race are to start; frequently figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting or finishing mark > starting mark score1513 starting place1570 goal1589 barrier1600 lists1601 starting post1631 scratch1772 starting line1812 mark1887 start line1908 gate1928 mobile1969 1631 W. Saltonstall Picturæ Loquentes xxiii. sig. E12^v The horses are brought hither in their night clothes, and from thence walke downe to the starting post. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 20 May 49 Let an Equestrian Statue of this Heroine be erected near the starting post on the heath of New Market. 1782 G. Selwyn Let. 13 Mar. in 15th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. Manuscripts (1897) App. vi. 593 He [sc. young Pitt] is at the head of a dozen young people, and it is a corps separate from that of Charles's; so there is another premier at the starting post, who, as yet, has never been shaved. 1852 J. F. Bateman Aquatic Notes 41 The starting-posts were 140 feet apart. 1892 B. F. Westcott Gospel of Life 46 It is as true in metaphysics as it is in physics that the goal of yesterday is the starting-post of to-day. 1903 Times of India 8 Aug. 7/1 The victory of Titus II. in the closed race was most easily gained after a most unconscionable delay at the starting post. 1944 Musical Times Apr. 109/1 Community singing had been in existence in many clubs and associations for some years; so this has been made the starting post for much wider musical experience. 2015 Uttoxeter Advertiser (Nexis) 21 Jan. 10 Uttoxeter Racecourse will be opening its gates for the event at 11am on Saturday... The first race will leave the starting post at 12.30pm. starting powder n. †(a) a combustible powder whose ignition begins a firework's display, before any explosion, emission of stars, etc. (obsolete); (b) Materials Science a powder used as the starting material in the synthesis of products (esp. ceramics) by sintering. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > parts of quill1629 report1653 red fire1680 cartouche1719 blue light1761 sun case1765 choke1786 settle1873 touchpaper1873 wheel-case1875 lance1878 starting powder1886 pastille1890 1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 135/2 Such are the starting-powder, which first catches the fire, the bursting-powder, which causes the final explosion, and the quick-match (cotton-wick, dried after being saturated with a paste of gunpowder and starch). 1956 Vacuum 6 232 Deoxidation is preferably effected by adding fixed amounts of carbon to the starting powder. 1991 Sci. News 21 Dec. 414/1 The finer the starting powder, the finer the grain in the finished ceramic. 2009 Ceramic Engin. & Sci. Proc. 30 1 The starting powder is a mixture of commercially available alumina, yttria, and neodymia powders. starting price n. (a) the initial price of a commodity; (sometimes) spec. the price at which the bidding at an auction is started; (b) the final betting odds on a horse, dog, etc., at the time that a race starts. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > auction prices sale price1793 starting price1805 reserve price1820 put-up price1831 reserve1854 knock-down price1888 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > odds > final odds starting price1805 1805 Brit. Press 2 Feb. It was very erroneously conceived that the Boydell Lottery would so diminish the sale of Tickets in the present State Lottery, as to reduce them much below their starting price before the drawing. 1846 Sporting Mag. July 64 Within the last ten seasons the Ugly Buck, in 1844, at five to two as the starting price, Coldrenick, in 1842, at eleven to eight. 1854 Poultry Chron. 2 127 A great number of the lots were claimed at the starting price, 5s. 1860 Era 4 Nov. 3/3 The starting price of Defender was 4 to 1. 1888 Baily's Monthly Mag. May 189 General Williams had, we believe, a starting-price commission, but as a rule the followers of the stable did not touch her. 1907 Favourite 16 Nov. 9/2 Elfin Revel was a big starting-price job for the Croxteth Plate. 1990 B. Roche Poor Beast in Rain in Wexford Trilogy (1992) 70 Speaker. The starting price at Kempton... The Loafer eight-to-one. Eighteen ran. 2003 Wall St. Jrnl. 13 Oct. a9/1 IBM said that TotalStorage, with a starting price of $90,000, will be able to keep track of data in many different storage-area-networks. starting salary n. the initial salary earned by an employee taking up a new post, or offered to a prospective employee. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > of non-manual workers > starting starting salary1857 1857 Times 23 Sept. 2/6 (advt.) Junior clerk wanted... Starting salary £1 per week. 1892 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 18 June 1339/1 Canavese asks..how appointments as surgeon or medical officer to the Indian railways are obtained, what the starting salary is, and whether there is any restriction as to age. 1969 H. Perkin Key Profession iv. 138 New assistant lecturers and junior lecturers..came in..at starting salaries much lower than those in schoolteaching. 2010 Times Educ. Suppl. 2 Apr. 22 The minimum starting salary is £100,000. starting torque n. the torque exerted by a motor when it starts from a stationary state.The starting torque is usually less than the torque when the motor is running at full speed. ΚΠ 1887 Jrnl. Soc. Telegr. Engineers 15 543 This was got by very strongly exciting the fields to get the maximum starting torque as a motor. 1920 Whittaker's Electr. Engineer's Pocket-bk. (ed. 4) 552 Motors with squirrel-cage rotors require special features in the rotor to obtain large starting torque without large losses at normal load. 2011 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 3 Apr. f9/1 The electric motor also produces an impressive starting torque of 118 lb.-ft. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). startingadj. Brit. /ˈstɑːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈstɑrdɪŋ/ Forms: see start v. and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: start v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < start v. + -ing suffix². 1. That makes a leap or other sudden movement; characterized by such movements; †bounding, full of energy (obsolete); impulsive, nervous; bursting forth. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > brisk or active sprindeOE whata1000 braga1350 prestc1390 yarea1400 stirringc1400 startingc1440 actious1441 actuala1470 activea1522 queemc1540 skeetc1540 lively1567 alive-like1582 pragmatical1590 spruce1590 agilious1599 brisk1599 sprightly?c1599 brisky1600 alives-like1601 alacrious1602 smart1602 eyebright1603 whisking1611 deedy1615 vibrant1616 sprunt1631 perking1653 alert1654 exilient1654 alacrative1657 eveillé1676 budge1691 jaunty1705 spry1746 sprack1747 alive1748 high-geared1795 rash1805 spicy1828 live1830 deedful1834 yary1855 sprucy1858 alacritous1859 sprackish1882 brash1884 up-and-coming1889 up and doing1901 loose1907 bright-eyed and bushy-tailed1936 buzzy1978 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [adjective] > making sudden leaps or springs startingc1440 subsultatory1541 subsultory1638 subsultorious1650 subsultive1750 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > suddenness > [adjective] ferlyc893 sudden1340 subitane?a1425 subite?1483 starting1545 plunging1566 abrupt1576 subitany1603 subitaneous1645 surprising1645 subitous1657 extempore1755 extemporary1761 society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > [adjective] > setting out outsetting1595 starting1608 outstanding1775 forthfaring1876 c1440 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Thornton) l. 511 (MED) One a stirtande stede he strykes one straye. 1528 T. Wyatt tr. Plutarch Quyete of Mynde sig. c.v^v The vneuynnesse of a stertynge or glyttering hert. 1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (vii.) f. 105^v The scole doctors of diuynite..what new strange sterting termes they haue invented. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. i. sig. Bb6^v And laid the blame, not to his carriage, But to his starting steed, that swaru'd asyde. 1608 T. Dekker Dead Tearme sig. D2^v The eyes of euery Straunger, and of euery starting Passenger be cast vp vppon mee. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. vi. 2 With starting courage, Giue with thy trumpet a loude note to Troy. View more context for this quotation 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. x. sig. I5^v What feares and cares affright the starting sleepes of the couetous? 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een schouw paerdt,..a Starting Horse. 1651 Mercurius Elencticus No. 3. 22 Severall moving bodyes keep the Field to prevent the stratagems of Tories and starting enemies. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 398. ⁋6 Your starting Manner of Writing,..has in it something very unaccountable. 1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad iii. 72 Behind his ear the starting weapon shone. 1787 R. Polwhele Eng. Orator ii. 209 When now the starting Tear Of filial Duty trembles. 1811 Reflector 2 229 The walker..who has not to watch the motions of a stumbling or a starting horse. 1867 W. M. Rossetti Fine Art iv. 107 His face is averted, with starting eyes and bristling hair. 1979 J. E. Hitt Tennessee Smith i. 6 From somewhere behind her came the racket of a starting horse with its stammer of thudding hoofs and swishes of brush. 2008 ‘B. Black’ Lemur 24 The lips pursing up, the little blond goatee wobbling, those starting eyes furiously agleam. 2. That has broken loose or become displaced from its habitual or correct position; awry; sticking out. Of the hair: sticking up. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > horripilation > [adjective] staring1578 upstaring1590 upstart1590 upstarted1602 bristling1607 erected1610 starting1680 horrent1744 horripilant1837 stivereda1855 erect1870 the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [adjective] steepc1000 tooting?c1225 strutting1387 prominent?1440 extant1540 eminent?1541 pouting1563 poking1566 out1576 egregious1578 promontory1579 out-pointed1585 buttinga1593 outjetting1598 perking1598 jettying1609 juttying1609 out-jutting1611 outstanding1611 upsticking1611 out-shooting1622 jutting1624 outgrowing1625 rank1625 toting1645 projectinga1652 porrected1653 protruded1654 protruding1654 upcast1658 protending1659 jettinga1661 raised1663 starting1680 emersed1686 exerted1697 projective1703 jet-out1709 exorbitant1715 sticking1715 foreright1736 poky1754 perked-up1779 salient1789 prouda1800 overdriven1812 extrusive1816 stand-up1818 shouldering1824 jutty1827 outflung1830 sticky-out1839 sticking-up1852 outreaching1853 protrusive1858 out-thrusting1869 stickout1884 protrudent1891 the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [adjective] > suffering displacement or disintegration starting1796 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > loosening or unfastening > [adjective] > not firmly attached or loose > becoming or making loosening1665 starting1796 1680 N. Lee Cæsar Borgia iv. i. 47 Compose your looks, smooth down that starting hair, And dry your eyes. 1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia i. 364 Stiff rose his starting hair, he stood dismay'd. 1796 F. Greensted Fugitive Pieces 14 With force tremendous on the fatal beach Headlong she [sc. a ship] dashes; thro' her starting planks Fast pours the briny wave. 1809 M. Holford Wallace iii. xxvii. 102 They saw..Their monarch's side all bruised and torn; The broken rib, the starting bone. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 89 The starting timbers of the unseasoned wood of which the ships were built. 1922 ‘E. Mordaunt’ Short Shipments 34 Lifting the trembling creature in his arms, [he] pointed out a dark patch upon the dry, starting hair. 1942 E. W. Ansell Pumping & Flooding of Ships 3 The pumps are..used for clearing bilges of water which is ever present, due to starting planks or leaking rivets. 3. Beginning, commencing; incipient.Cf. also starting n. Compounds 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [adjective] > that begins entering?a1425 beginning1576 upstarting1581 starting1811 commencing1830 1811 Wanderer iii. 49 With starting carriage I all hopes resign'd..Leaving my senses and my soul behind. 1865 U.S. Patent 51,669 3/1 The combination..of a gradually-starting and gradually-stopping intermittent feed mechanism with a revolving knife. 1891 St. Paul (Minnesota) Daily News 31 July 3/1 A novelty in the harness races at Cleveland yesterday was a double team race for a purse of $3,000, with four starting teams. 1906 Everybody's Mag. Jan. 76/1 The house shakes like a starting car. 1954 Times 18 Oct. 9/4 The Abernant colt..could not keep in front of the more slowly starting Precious Heather after half-way. 2009 P. Bush Out of Snare 98 ‘The sooner the better,’ he said softly to the starting dawn as he drifted off to sleep. 4. Sport (chiefly U.S.). Designating a player who begins a particular game in the specified position or role; as starting pitcher, starting quarterback, etc. Cf. starting n. Compounds 2c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [adjective] > other attributes scienced1818 starting1855 international1866 all-American1887 unmarked1890 fouled1898 muckerish1900 power1932 playmaking1933 open1937 wild card1940 wide-body1986 1855 Bell's Life in London 22 July 6/2 John Lillywhite and Dean were the starting bowlers. 1910 Washington Post 7 Oct. 8/4 Collins was the only starting pitcher whose work was classy. 1956 Boys' Life June 75/1 Petey told me I'm the starting bowler. 1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 5 Nov. e1 Maryland starting quarterback O'Hare was throttled by Penn State's pass rush, its alert secondary and by [etc.]. 1996 Ice Hockey News Rev. 21 Dec. 7/3 Most of my career I've been a starting goalie. 2013 Straits Times (Singapore) 23 Aug. (Home section) 18/2 ‘It was all a bit intimidating,’ admitted Jeron, Montfort's starting pitcher yesterday. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1398adj.c1440
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