start的意思|start的解释-里氏词典

START \START\ (st[aum]rt), n. [From Strategic Arms Reduction
Treaty.]
A Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union which
provided for stepwise reductions in the number of nuclear
weapons possessed by each country.
[PJC]

Start \Start\ (st[aum]rt), v. t.
1. To cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to
startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as,
the hounds started a fox.

Upon malicious bravery dost thou come
To start my quiet? --Shak.

Brutus will start a spirit as soon as C[ae]sar.
--Shak.

2. To bring into being or into view; to originate; to invent.

Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure
they can start. --Sir W.
Temple.

3. To cause to move or act; to set going, running, or
flowing; as, to start a railway train; to start a mill; to
start a stream of water; to start a rumor; to start a
business.

I was engaged in conversation upon a subject which
the people love to start in discourse. --Addison.

4. To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace
or loosen; to dislocate; as, to start a bone; the storm
started the bolts in the vessel.

One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the
clavicle from the sternum. --Wiseman.

5. [Perh. from D. storten, which has this meaning also.]
(Naut.) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing
from; as, to start a water cask.

Start \Start\, n.
1. The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion,
caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden
motion, or beginning of motion.

The fright awakened Arcite with a start. --Dryden.

2. A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort.

For she did speak in starts distractedly. --Shak.

Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or in a
hurry. --L'Estrange.

3. A sudden, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious
impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy.

To check the starts and sallies of the soul.
--Addison.

4. The beginning, as of a journey or a course of action;
first motion from a place; act of setting out; the outset;
-- opposed to {finish}.

The start of first performance is all. --Bacon.

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. --Shak.

{At a start}, at once; in an instant. [Obs.]

At a start he was betwixt them two. --Chaucer.

{To get the start}, or {To have the start}, to begin before
another; to gain or have the advantage in a similar
undertaking; -- usually with of. ``Get the start of the
majestic world.'' --Shak. ``She might have forsaken him if
he had not got the start of her.'' --Dryden.

Start \Start\, n. [OE. stert a tail, AS. steort; akin to LG.
stert, steert, D. staart, G. sterz, Icel. stertr, Dan.
stiert, Sw. stjert. [root]166. Cf. Stark naked, under
{Stark}, {Start}, v. i.]
1. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.

2. The handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle.
[Prov. Eng.]

3. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel
bucket.

4. (Mining) The arm, or lever, of a gin, drawn around by a
horse.

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.]

2. To move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise,
pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a
voluntary act.

And maketh him out of his sleep to start. --Chaucer.

I start as from some dreadful dream. --Dryden.

Keep your soul to the work when ready to start
aside. --I. Watts.

But if he start,
It is the flesh of a corrupted heart. --Shak.

3. To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to
begin; as, to start in business.

At once they start, advancing in a line. --Dryden.

At intervals some bird from out the brakes
Starts into voice a moment, then is still. --Byron.

4. To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a
seam may start under strain or pressure.

{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.

Why not simply start the women's groups and skip the loans and entrepreneurship?
They come and start trouble.
Mr Cedric Brown, chief executive, said the group was at the start of a 'complete and radical transformation'.
Pope John Paul II arrived in Warsaw for the start of a weeklong visit to Poland, and urged respect for human rights during a formal meeting with the country's Communist leader.
Dealers attributed the higher stock market start to dollar selling on a news report that Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party might lose an election for the powerful lower house of Parliament early next year.
The index hit its peak of 1,967.1 at the start of official dealings.
This fundamental difference, almost too obvious to mention, gets lost when experts start examining the Soviet Union with a microscope to study perceived changes and prescribe Western responses.
Prosecutors said Terry wanted to start a new life and leave insurance proceeds to his family.
Most investment trusts trade at a discount. The offer period runs until March 5 and dealings will start on March 11. Maximum Pep investment is Pounds 1,500, as the trust does not qualify for the full annual Pounds 6,000 allowance.
An Israeli soldier and three Palestinians were killed today in the first gun battle between troops and Arab villagers since the start of the 17-month uprising against Israel's occupation.
But the West has never abandoned all its doubts about Soviet intentions, and now it might start wondering once again who is really in control in the Kremlin.
Spare a thought, however, for the new recruits to the real business of life, those for whom 1994 may be the start of a lifetime of gardening until arthritis stops them in the 2030s.
Exercise should start with a warmup, in "an effort not to jump start the body," and rip a muscle that's unprepared for maximum exertion, he said.
Exercise should start with a warmup, in "an effort not to jump start the body," and rip a muscle that's unprepared for maximum exertion, he said.
Most public offerings are sold for 30 to 90 days before the funds start trading futures; after that, they are closed to additional investment.
The unrest involving the Solidarity trade union in Poland got its start when meat prices were raised, but the Soviet population is generally less volatile.
But authorities were looking into reports a prisoner threw paint thinner during a fight inside the ward and another inmate ignited the thinner to start the fire, Garza said.
Once the gene has been identified, researchers can begin figuring out its function and then start searching for possible therapy.
"Once they deplete their fat reserves, then they start metabolizing protein at a more extensive rate," said Glenn DelGiudice, a wildlife biologist specializing in nutrition and physiology.
Scientists are trying to understand just what triggers a latent virus to start reproducing itself, in hopes of finding ways to keep it dormant.
"If the Merc closes down at night and allows Tokyo and London to establish markets in its commodities, it might decline faster," said Paul Tattersall, executive vice president for Globex, which intends to start by next summer.
A federal prosecutor, testifying Monday at the start of hearings in the impeachment trial of Judge Alcee L. Hastings, said he was shocked that the judge ordered the return of $845,000 forfeited in a racketeering case.
The yen has been under pressure recently because of Japan's relatively low interest rates and as rumors of anotehr stock scandal start to surface.
These include the delay that will now take place in the publication of departmental spending plans and the fact that taxation decisions will be taken well before the start of the new financial year.
Interest rates, both short- and long-term, should rise a full percentage point by mid-1989 and then start to decline.
With the start of the fall television season today, Capital Cities/ABC agreed Friday to a new three-year contract with Nielsen despite earlier concerns that people meters might not be as accurate as proposed.
He is virtually the only industrial saint around." Analysts expect Digital to start a new stock buy-back program soon to bolster the shares.
"It's going well," he said. "I feel like (blacks) will start coming to the pool." Jamie Willis, 17, who is white, said they probably wouldn't.
But they have warned that trouble could develop in 1992 when cash payments start coming due on preferred stock and bonds which now are issuing additional securities as dividends.
Friday's half-day investor presentation at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre - organised by yet another well-connected public relations firm, Balfour Harley Associates - is a start.

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