onsetnoun
uk/ˈɒn.set/us/ˈɑːn.set/the onset of sth
the moment at which something unpleasant begins:
the onset of winter
The new treatment can delay the onset of the disease by several years.
specialized phonetics the first part of a syllable
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coda
rhyme noun
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Beginnings and starts
- a baptism of/by fire idiom
- a clean sheet/slate idiom
- advent
- baptism
- beginning
- clean
- go/be back to square one idiom
- inception
- initiation
- institution
- introduction
- jumping-off point
- seed
- square
- starting time
- the outset
- the thin end of the wedge idiom
- thin
- trigger
- zero hour
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