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beginning 音標拼音: [bɪg'ɪnɪŋ] n. U開端,開始; C起源 U開端,開始; C起源 beginning期初
Beginning開始 BGN( G) beginning開始 期初 beginning adj 1: serving to begin; " the beginning canto of the poem"; " the first verse" [ synonym: { beginning( a)}, { first}] n 1: the event consisting of the start of something; " the beginning of the war" [ ant: { conclusion}, { ending}, { finish}] 2: the time at which something is supposed to begin; " they got an early start"; " she knew from the get- go that he was the man for her" [ synonym: { beginning}, { commencement}, { first}, { outset}, { get- go}, { start}, { kickoff}, { starting time}, { showtime}, { offset}] [ ant: { end}, { ending}, { middle}] 3: the first part or section of something; "` It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story" [ ant: { end}, { middle}] 4: the place where something begins, where it springs into being; " the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; " Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; " Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; " communism' s Russian root" [ synonym: { beginning}, { origin}, { root}, { rootage}, { source}] 5: the act of starting something; " he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations" [ synonym: { beginning}, { start}, { commencement}] [ ant: { finish}, { finishing}] Beginning \ Be* gin" ning\, n. 1. The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. [ 1913 Webster] In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. -- Gen. i. 1. [ 1913 Webster] 2. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source. [ 1913 Webster] I am . . . the beginning and the ending. -- Rev. i. 8. [ 1913 Webster] 3. That which is begun; a rudiment or element. [ 1913 Webster] Mighty things from small beginnings grow. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Enterprise. " To hinder our beginnings." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Inception; prelude; opening; threshold; origin; outset; foundation. [ 1913 Webster]
Begin \ Be* gin"\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Began}, { Begun}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Beginning}.] [ AS. beginnan ( akin to OS. biginnan, D. & G. beginnen, OHG. biginnan, Goth., du- ginnan, Sw. begynna, Dan. begynde); pref. be- an assumed ginnan. [ root] 31. See { Gin} to begin.] 1. To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. [ 1913 Webster] Vast chain of being! which from God began. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start. " Tears began to flow." -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] When I begin, I will also make an end. -- 1 Sam. iii. 12. [ 1913 Webster] 130 Moby Thesaurus words for " beginning": abecedarian, aboriginal, alpha, anlage, antenatal, anticipation, appearance, authorship, autochthonous, babyhood, basal, beginnings, birth, budding, childhood, coinage, commencement, conception, concoction, contrivance, contriving, cradle, creation, creative, creative effort, dawn, dawning, day, derivation, devising, earliness, early hour, early stage, elemental, elementary, embryonic, emergence, fabrication, fetal, first crack, first stage, foresight, formative, foundational, freshman year, fundamental, generation, genesis, gestatory, grass roots, ground floor, hatching, head, head start, improvisation, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inception, inceptive, inchoate, inchoation, inchoative, incipience, incipiency, incipient, incunabula, incunabular, infancy, infant, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, invention, inventive, making do, mintage, nascence, nascency, nascent, natal, nativity, onset, opening, origin, original, origination, outset, outstart, parturient, parturition, postnatal, pregnancy, pregnant, prenatal, prevenience, prevision, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, prologue, provenience, radical, radix, readiness, rise, root, rudiment, rudimental, rudimentary, running start, setout, source, spring, sprout, start, stem, stock, taproot, time to spare, ur, very beginning, youth
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