start

/stɑːt/

US pronunciation

American sound/stɑːt/

start

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Open ah vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> start

Myanmar meaning

(v) စတင်ထွက်ခွာ (n) အစ

Full entry

start /stɑ:t / n

၁။ (က) [C] အစ။ make an early start (to one's journey) ❍ She behaved badly from start to finish. ❍ We won't finish the job today but we can make a start (on it). ❍ I've written one page of my essay: it's not much but it's a start. ❍ He knew from the start the idea was hopeless. (ခ) the start [sing] တာလွှတ်ရာ။ တာစူရာ။ တာ ထွက်။ runners lined up at the start. See also FALSE START
၂။ [C usu sing ] လုပ်ငန်းစရန် မတည်ပေးခြင်း။ give sb a fresh start ❍ The money gave him just the start he needed.
၃။ [C usu sing ] အကျော။ အသာစီး။
The smaller boys were given a start of 10 seconds in the race. ❍ They didn't give me much of a start. See also HEAD START
၄။ [C usu sing ] အလန့်တကြားဖြစ်ခြင်း။ ထိတ်ထိတ်ပျာပျာဖြစ်ခြင်း။ He sat up/woke up with a start. ❍ You gave me quite a start (ie surprised me).
v
၁။ ~ (out) စတင်ထွက်ခွာသည်။ ထ(လိုက်)သည်။ We plan to start (out) at 6 o'clock. ❍ I started after her (ie followed her) to tell her the news.
၂။ စသည်။ I start work at 9 am. ❍ I had to start (ie being using) a new tin of paint. ❍ He's just started a new job. ❍ It started to rain. ❍ He started laughing. ❍ I arrived after the play had started. ❍ I've had enough criticism for one day—don't you start! ❍ They started (the concert) with a piece by Mozart.
၃။ ~ (on) sth (က) လုပ်ငန်းစသည်။ start (on) one's journey home ❍ Have you started (on) (ie begun to write or read) your next book yet?
❍ It's time to get started on/time we got started on (ie began) the washing up.
(ခ) ~ sb on (doing) sth အစထွင်ပေးသည်။ start babies on solid food.
၄။ (က) (စက်)နိုးသည်။ The car won't start. (ခ) စက်နှိုးသည်။ I can't start the car.
၅။ အစပျိုးသည်။ ပျိုးထောင်ပေးသည်။ လမ်းစဖော်ပေး သည်။ start a fire ❍ He decided to start a newspaper. ❍ His uncle started him in business (ie helped him, eg by giving money). ❍ The news started me thinking.
❍ The smoke started her coughing.
၆။ ~ (up) (fml ) (က) တုန်လှုပ် သွားသည်။ She started at the sound of my voice.
(ခ) ထခုန်သည်။ He started (up) from his seat.
၇။ (fml ) ထွက်ပြူ လာသည်။ (မျက်လုံး) ကျွတ်ထွက် (မတတ်ဖြစ်)သည်။ His eyes almost started out of his head (ie suddenly opened wide, eg in surprise).
၈။ (fml ) လှန့်ထုတ်သည်။ start a hare.
၉။ (infml ) ညည်းသည်။ အပြစ်တင်သည်။ Don't you start—it's not my fault.
❏ for a start [IDM ] စပြောရရင်။ ပထမဦးဆုံးအနေဖြင့်။ I'm not buying it—I can't afford it for a start.
❏ start back [PHRV ]
၁။ ပြန်လှည့်သည်။ ခြေရာပြန်ကောက် သည်။ Isn't it time we started back? It's getting dark.
၂။ ယောင်ယမ်း၍ ရုတ်ခနဲ ဆုတ်လိုက်သည်။ He started back in alarm.
❏ start a family [IDM ] ကလေးယူသည်။ They want to start a family but can't afford it at the moment.
❏ start (sth) from scratch [IDM ] သုညမှ စတင် တည်ထောင်သည်။ He lost all his money and had to start again from scratch.
❏ start for… [PHRV ] …သို့ထွက်ခွာသည်။ What time do you start for work?
❏ start off [PHRV ] စထွက်သည်။ The horse started off at a steady trot.
❏ start off sth [PHRV ] အစတွင် …သည်။ The berries start off green but go red when they are ripe.
❏ start (sb) off (on sth) [PHRV ] စပေးလိုက်သည်။ It's impossible to stop him talking once he starts off. ❍ What started her off on this crazy idea?
❏ start off on the right/wrong foot (with sb) [IDM ] (infml ) စတင်ထိတွေ့ရပုံ အစကောင်းသည် (သို့) အစမကောင်းခဲ့။ He started off on the wrong foot by being rude to his new boss.
❏ start out (on sth); start out (to do sth) [PHRV ]
၁။ စထွက်သည်။ start out on a 20-mile walk ❍ What time did you start out?
၂။ (infml ) (လုပ်ငန်းတစ်ရပ်ကို) စသည်၊ အစပျိုးသည်။ start out in business ❍ start out on a new career ❍ start out to write/with the intention of writing a novel.
❏ start over (US ) [PHRV ] အစမှပြန်ကောက်(စေ)သည်။ She wasn't satisfied with our work and made us start (all) over.
❏ start something [IDM ] (infml ) ဆွပေးသည်။ You shouldn't have been so rude to him—you've really started something now.
❏ start (sth) up [PHRV ] စ(ထောင်၊ နိုး၊ ဖြစ်…)သည်။ (ကားစက်)နှိုးသည်။ start up a new company ❍ The engine started up suddenly. ❍ What started the argument up? ❍ We couldn't start the car up.
❏ start (sb) up (in sth) [PHRV ] ပျိုးထောင်ပေးသည်။ start up in business. See also START-UP
❏ start-up n ပျိုးထောင်မှု။ ကနဦး။ the start-up costs of new ventures.
❏ to start with [IDM ]
၁။ ပထမအချက်အနေဖြင့်။
To start with we don't have enough money, and secondly we're too busy.
၂။ အစပထမတွင်။ The club had only six members to start with. ❍ I'll have melon to start with.

More examples

Work has started on a new terminal at Heathrow Airport.
The World Championships start in two weeks’ time.
The show has just started.
What time does school start in the morning?
[start as] : The riot started as a dispute between neighbours.
Cellular decay starts at the moment of death.
[start doing/to do something] : The leaves have started falling off the trees.
The traffic had started to move more freely now.
His confidence is starting to crumble.
It’s starting to rain.
Please start when you are ready.
Have you started the washing-up yet?
[start by] : Let’s start by defining our terms.
[start with] : The class starts with some gentle stretching exercises.
[start doing something] : Everyone in the class started laughing.
[start to do something] : I started to unpack my suitcase.
When do they want you to start?
Things were very different when I started in politics.
I started as an office boy and worked my way to the top.
[start work] : I start work on Monday.
[start school/college] : Children start school at age five.
[start the day/week/year etc] : I usually start the day with a cup of coffee.
New York started the new century with a massive fireworks display.
Of the 36 horses that started the race, only four finished.

Synonyms

create, found, begin, establish, set up, initiate, institute, launch, pioneer, inaugurate, father, activate, advantage, allowance, alpha, appear, arise, arouse, backing, be off, be on your way, beginning, birth, blanch, blench, bolt, boon, bounce, bound, bow, break, buck, bulge, chance, come into being, commence, commencement, convulsion, countdown, dart, dawn, dawning, day one, depart, derivation, draw, draw back, edge, embark, embarkation, engender, enter upon, exit, fire up, first step, flinch, flying start, foundation, fright, gain, get going, get under way, go ahead, handicap, head start, helping hand, hit the road, inauguration, inception, incipient, incite, initiation, instigate, introduce, introduction, issue, jar, jerk, jolt, jump, jump the gun, jump-off, kick off, kickoff, lay foundation, lead, leap, leave, leaving, light, make a beginning, nascent, odds, onset, open, opening, opportunity, origin, originate, outset, plus, quail, recoil, rise, rouse, running start, sally forth, scare, see light, set in motion, set off, set out, setting out, shock, shrink, shy, source, spasm, sponsorship, spring, square one, squinch, start off, start out, start-off, startle, surprise, switch on, take first step, take off, take the plunge, takeoff, turn, turn on, twitch, vantage, wince

Antonyms

allow, arrival, arrive, bad luck, calm, cease, close, coming, complete, completion, conclude, conclusion, consequence, death, destroy, die, disadvantage, dull, effect, end, ending, face, finish, halt, hide, hold, ignore, keep, meet, misfortune, outgrowth, permit, prevent, result, ruin, stay, stop, termination