| 单词 | starter |
| 释义 | starter (once / 959 pages) n WORD FAMILY starter: nonstarter, self-starter, starters+/nonstarter: nonstarters/restart: restarted, restarting, restarts/self-starter: self-starters/start: re-start, restart, started, starter, starting, starts/starting: startingly, startings USAGE EXAMPLES"Starter Homes Land Fund" for the new developments on brownfield sites. BBC(Jan 03, 2017) None of those would-be starters are on the team now. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) He eventually moved onto the field, then became a starter. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n any new participant in some activity Syn|Hypo|Hyper entrant, fledgeling, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer enlistee, recruit any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces) beginner, initiate, novice, tiro, tyro someone new to a field or activity 2n a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle Syn|Hypo|Hyper crank crank handle, starting handle crank used to start an engine hand tool a tool used with workers' hands 3n an electric motor for starting an engine Syn|Hypo|Hyper starter motor, starting motor kick start, kick starter a starter (as on a motorcycle) that is activated with the foot and the weight of the body self-starteran electric starting motor that automatically starts an internal-combustion engine electric motor a motor that converts electricity to mechanical work 4n the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition Syn|Hyper dispatcher official someone who administers the rules of a game or sport 5n a contestant in a team sport who is in the game at the beginning Hypo|Hyper starting pitcher (baseball) a pitcher who starts in a baseball game contestant a person who participates in competitions 6n food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) Syn|Hypo|Hyper appetiser, appetizer antipasto a course of appetizers in an Italian meal canapean appetizer consisting usually of a thin slice of bread or toast spread with caviar or cheese or other savory food cocktailan appetizer served as a first course at a meal hors d'oeuvrea dish served as an appetizer before the main meal cruditesraw vegetables cut into bite-sized strips and served with a dip fruit cocktaila mixture of sliced or diced fruits crab cocktaila cocktail of cold cooked crabmeat and a sauce shrimp cocktaila cocktail of cold cooked shrimp and a sauce celery stickcelery stalks cut into small sticks carrot sticka stick of carrot eaten raw stuffed mushroommushrooms stuffed with any of numerous mixtures of e.g. meats or nuts or seafood or spinach rollmopsa pickled herring filet that has been rolled or wrapped around a pickle pigs in blanketssmall frankfurters wrapped in biscuit dough and baked course part of a meal served at one time 7n a culture containing yeast or bacteria that is used to start the process of fermentation or souring in making butter or cheese or dough to make sourdough you need a starter Hyper culture (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar) |
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