Usually means: Begin or initiate an activity.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. START, start, the start: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. START, START, start, start: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. start: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. start: Collins English Dictionary
  5. start: Vocabulary.com
  6. Start, start: Wordnik
  7. start: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. START, Start, start: Wiktionary
  9. start: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. start: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. start: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. START, the start: Dictionary.com
  13. start (n.), start (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. start: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. START (The Americans), START, STart, Start (Polish camera), Start (Soviet camera), Start (cereal), Start (command), Start (newspaper), Start, Start, The Start (American band), The Start (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Start: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. start: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. start: Rhymezone
  19. Start (m), start, start (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. start: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. START: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. start: Free Dictionary
  23. start: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. start: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. start: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. start: Legal dictionary
  2. start: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. start: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. START: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
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  3. START: Acronym Finder
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  5. start: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. START: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. start, start, start: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. start: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Start: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See started as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The beginning of an activity.
noun:  A sudden involuntary movement.
noun:  The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
noun:  An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
noun:  (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
noun:  An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
noun:  (UK, slang, archaic) A happening or proceeding.
verb:  (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
verb:  To set in motion.
verb:  To begin.
verb:  To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
verb:  To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
verb:  To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
verb:  (intransitive) To begin an activity.
verb:  (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
verb:  To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
verb:  (intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise.
verb:  (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
verb:  (transitive) To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
verb:  (intransitive) To flinch or draw back.
verb:  (transitive) To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
verb:  (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
verb:  (transitive, sports) To put into play.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
verb:  (intransitive, euphemistic) To start one's periods (menstruation).
noun:  An instance of starting.
noun:  A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
noun:  A handle, especially that of a plough.
noun:  The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
noun:  The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
adverb:  (dialectal, archaic) Completely, utterly.
noun:  A typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option.
noun:  A surname from Old English.
noun:  (medicine) Acronym of simple triage and rapid treatment.
noun:  (law) Acronym of Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

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