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