Meaning of starting in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

verb

• To begin, commence, initiate.

• To begin an activity.

  Example: The rain started at 9:00.

• To have its origin (at), begin.

  Example: The blue line starts one foot away from the wall.

• To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.

• To break away, to come loose.

• To put into play.

• To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.

  Example: to start a water cask

• To start one's periods (menstruation).

  Example: Have you started yet?

noun

• The act of something that starts.

  Example: constant startings and stoppings