begin : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: begin	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for begin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Begin n Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992) Synonym(s): Begin, Menachem Begin v take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now" Synonym(s): get down, begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence Antonym(s): end, terminate have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense; "The DMZ begins right over the hill"; "The second movement begins after the Allegro"; "Prices for these homes start at $250,000" Synonym(s): begin, start Antonym(s): cease, end, finish, stop, terminate set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life" Synonym(s): begin, lead off, start, commence Antonym(s): end, terminate begin to speak or say; "Now listen, friends," he began be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series; "The number `one' begins the sequence"; "A terrible murder begins the novel"; "The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester" have a beginning, of a temporal event; "WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland"; "The company's Asia tour begins next month" have a beginning characterized in some specified way; "The novel begins with a murder"; "My property begins with the three maple trees"; "Her day begins with a workout"; "The semester begins with a convocation ceremony" Synonym(s): begin, start begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object; "begin a cigar"; "She started the soup while it was still hot"; "We started physics in 10th grade" Synonym(s): begin, start achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative; "This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation"; "You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war" begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language; "She began Russian at an early age"; "We started French in fourth grade"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. Vast chain of being! which from God began. --Pope. 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. [bd]Tears began to flow.[b8] --Dryden. When I begin, I will also make an end. --1 Sam. iii. 12.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Begin \Begin"\, v. t. 1. To enter on; to commence. Ye nymphs of Solyma ! begin* the song. --Pope. 2. To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of. The apostle begins our knowledge in the creatures, which leads us to the knowledge of God. --Locke. Syn: To commence; originate; set about; start.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Begin \Be*gin"\, n. Beginning. [Poetic & Obs.] --Spenser.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
@Begin The {Scribe} equivalent of {\begin}. [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
\begin The {LaTeX} command used with \end to delimit an environment within which the text is formatted in a certain way. E.g. \begin{table}...\end{table}. Used humorously in writing to indicate a context or to remark on the surrounded text. For example: \begin{flame} Predicate logic is the only good programming language. Anyone who would use anything else is an idiot. Also, all computers should be tredecimal instead of binary. \end{flame} {Scribe} users at {CMU} and elsewhere used to use @Begin/@End in an identical way (LaTeX was built to resemble Scribe). On {Usenet}, this construct would more frequently be rendered as "" and "" (a la {HTML}), or "#ifdef FLAME" and "#endif FLAME" (a la {C preprocessor}). (1998-09-21)