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English Dictionary: begin |
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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"
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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.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Begin \Be*gin"\, 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.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Begin \Be*gin"\, n.
Beginning. [Poetic & Obs.] --Spenser.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: |
@Begin
The {Scribe} equivalent of {\begin}.
[{Jargon File}]
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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)
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