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starting 音標拼音: [st'ɑrtɪŋ] n. 開始,開動 開始,開動 starting開始 起動 starting adj 1: ( especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear; " with eyes starting from their sockets" 2: appropriate to the beginning or start of an event; " the starting point"; " hands in the starting position" n 1: a turn to be a starter ( in a game at the beginning); " he got his start because one of the regular pitchers was in the hospital"; " his starting meant that the coach thought he was one of their best linemen" [ synonym: { start}, { starting}] start \ start\ ( st[ aum] rt), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { started}; p. pr. & vb. n. { starting}.] [ OE. sterten; akin to D. storten to hurl, rush, fall, G. st[" u] rzen, OHG. sturzen to turn over, to fall, Sw. st[" o] rta to cast down, to fall, Dan. styrte, and probably also to E. start a tail; the original sense being, perhaps, to show the tail, to tumble over suddenly. [ root] 166. Cf. { Start} a tail.] 1. To leap; to jump. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] 2. To move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act. [ 1913 Webster] And maketh him out of his sleep to start. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] I start as from some dreadful dream. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] Keep your soul to the work when ready to start aside. -- I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster] But if he start, It is the flesh of a corrupted heart. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start in business. [ 1913 Webster] At once they start, advancing in a line. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] At intervals some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still. -- Byron. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure. [ 1913 Webster] { To start after}, to set out after; to follow; to pursue. { To start against}, to act as a rival candidate against. { To start for}, to be a candidate for, as an office. { To start up}, to rise suddenly, as from a seat or couch; to come suddenly into notice or importance. [ 1913 Webster]
Starting \ Start" ing\ ( st[ aum] rt"[ i^] ng), a. & n. from { Start}, v. [ 1913 Webster] { Starting bar} ( Steam Eng.), a hand lever for working the valves in starting an engine. { Starting hole}, a loophole; evasion. [ Obs.] { Starting point}, the point from which motion begins, or from which anything starts. { Starting post}, a post, stake, barrier, or place from which competitors in a race start, or begin the race. [ 1913 Webster]
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