单词 | starting place |
释义 | > as lemmasstarting place 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. < as lemmas |
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