starter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑː.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈstɑɹ.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈstɑɹ.ɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Forms: form: starters
Etymology: From start + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The most charitable view taken of them by their colleagues was that, as late starters on the journey away from their Labour past, they had not fully understood that the SDP intended to be something new and not just a Mark II Labour Party […]
ref: 1982, Hugh Stephenson, Claret and Chips: The Rise of the SDP, page 158:
glosses: Someone who starts, or who starts something.
glosses: Someone who starts, or who starts something.
The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Someone who starts, or who starts something.
A starting pitcher.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Someone who starts, or who starts something.
A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
glosses: Something that starts something.
An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.
glosses: Something that starts something.
A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp.
glosses: Something that starts something.
A yeast culture, or a medium containing one, used to start a fermentation process.
hypernyms: mother
sour mash
examples: text: It's small, but it's a good starter house.
glosses: Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
synonyms: entrée
hors d'oeuvre
appetizer
coordinate_terms: main
main course
dessert
glosses: The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
examples: text: Goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga wasn’t a starter at Fulham.
ref: 2024 May 6, Sid Lowe, “Portu’s brilliant burst seals Girona’s top-four fairytale in the perfect way”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
qualifier: team sports
glosses: A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
glosses: A dog that rouses game.
glosses: A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
examples: text: The colour-light signals admitting directly to the platforms and the inner starters (for short-length departures well up the platforms) are two-aspect, while those immediately beyond them are three-aspect, but elsewhere four-aspect signals have been installed in association with route indicators.
ref: 1961 March, “The new Glasgow Central signalbox”, in Trains Illustrated, page 179:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railway signal controlling the starting of trains from a station or some other location, more fully called a starter signal or starting signal.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from starter
word: blue starter
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word: bread starter
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word: dynostarter
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word: glow starter
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word: heart starter
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word: jump starter
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word: new starter
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word: non-starter
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word: remote starter
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word: self-starter
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word: starter battery
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word: starter cable
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word: starter castle
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word: starter dough
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word: starter home
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word: starter house
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word: starter kit
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word: starter marriage
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word: starter motor
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word: starter pack
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word: starter pistol
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word: starter signal
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word: starter strip