Start something

Definition

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] တာလႊတ္ရာ။ တာစူရာ။ တာ ထြက္။ runners lined up at the start. See also FALSE START ၂။ [C usu sing ] လုပ္ငန္းစရန္ မတည္ေပးျခင္း။ give sb a fresh start ❍ The money gave him just the start he needed. ၃။ [C usu sing ] အေက်ာ။ 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 ] အလန္႔တၾကားျဖစ္ျခင္း။ ထိတ္ထိတ္ပ်ာပ်ာျဖစ္ျခင္း။ He sat up/woke up with a start. ❍ You gave me quite a start (ie surprised me). v ၁။ ~ (out) စတင္ထြက္ခြာသည္။ ထ(လိုက္)သည္။ We plan to start (out) at 6 o'clock. ❍ I started after her (ie followed her) to tell her the news. ၂။ စသည္။ 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) လုပ္ငန္းစသည္။ 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 အစထြင္ေပးသည္။ start babies on solid food. ၄။ (က) (စက္)ႏိုးသည္။ The car won't start. (ခ) စက္ႏိႈးသည္။ I can't start the car. ၅။ အစပ်ဳိးသည္။ ပ်ဳိးေထာင္ေပးသည္။ လမ္းစေဖာ္ေပး သည္။ 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) တုန္လႈပ္ သြားသည္။ She started at the sound of my voice. (ခ) ထခုန္သည္။ He started (up) from his seat. ၇။ ( fml ) ထြက္ျပဴ လာသည္။ (မ်က္လံုး) ကြၽတ္ထြက္ (မတတ္ျဖစ္)သည္။ His eyes almost started out of his head (ie suddenly opened wide, eg in surprise). ၈။ ( fml ) လွန္႔ထုတ္သည္။ start a hare. ၉။ ( infml ) ညည္းသည္။ အျပစ္တင္သည္။ Don't you start—it's not my fault. ❏ for a start [ IDM ] စေျပာရရင္။ ပထမဦးဆံုးအေနျဖင့္။ I'm not buying it—I can't afford it for a start. ❏ start back [ PHRV ] ၁။ ျပန္လွည့္သည္။ ေျခရာျပန္ေကာက္ သည္။ Isn't it time we started back? It's getting dark. ၂။ ေယာင္ယမ္း၍ ႐ုတ္ခနဲ ဆုတ္လိုက္သည္။ He started back in alarm. ❏ start a family [ IDM ] ကေလးယူသည္။ They want to start a family but can't afford it at the moment. ❏ start (sth) from scratch [ IDM ] သုညမွ စတင္ တည္ေထာင္သည္။ He lost all his money and had to start again from scratch. ❏ start for… [ PHRV ] …သို႔ထြက္ခြာသည္။ What time do you start for work? ❏ start off [ PHRV ] စထြက္သည္။ The horse started off at a steady trot. ❏ start off sth [ PHRV ] အစတြင္ …သည္။ The berries start off green but go red when they are ripe. ❏ start (sb) off (on sth) [ PHRV ] စေပးလိုက္သည္။ 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 ) စတင္ထိေတြ႕ရပံု အစေကာင္းသည္ (သို႔) အစမေကာင္းခဲ့။ 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။ စထြက္သည္။ start out on a 20-mile walk ❍ What time did you start out? ၂။ ( infml ) (လုပ္ငန္းတစ္ရပ္ကို) စသည္၊ အစပ်ဳိးသည္။ 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 ] အစမွျပန္ေကာက္(ေစ)သည္။ She wasn't satisfied with our work and made us start (all) over. ❏ start something [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဆြေပးသည္။ You shouldn't have been so rude to him—you've really started something now. ❏ start (sth) up [ PHRV ] စ(ေထာင္၊ ႏိုး၊ ျဖစ္…)သည္။ (ကားစက္)ႏိႈးသည္။ 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 ] ပ်ဳိးေထာင္ေပးသည္။ start up in business. See also START-UP ❏ start-up n ပ်ဳိးေထာင္မႈ။ ကနဦး။ the start-up costs of new ventures. ❏ to start with [ IDM ] ၁။ ပထမအခ်က္အေနျဖင့္။ To start with we don't have enough money, and secondly we're too busy. ၂။ အစပထမတြင္။ The club had only six members to start with. ❍ I'll have melon to start with.

Examples

1. Work has started on a new terminal at Heathrow Airport.
2. The World Championships start in two weeks’ time.
3. The show has just started.
4. What time does school start in the morning?
5. [start as] : The riot started as a dispute between neighbours.
6. Cellular decay starts at the moment of death.
7. [start doing/to do something] : The leaves have started falling off the trees.
8. The traffic had started to move more freely now.
9. His confidence is starting to crumble.
10. It’s starting to rain.
11. Please start when you are ready.
12. Have you started the washing-up yet?
13. [start by] : Let’s start by defining our terms.
14. [start with] : The class starts with some gentle stretching exercises.
15. [start doing something] : Everyone in the class started laughing.
16. [start to do something] : I started to unpack my suitcase.
17. When do they want you to start?
18. Things were very different when I started in politics.
19. I started as an office boy and worked my way to the top.
20. [start work] : I start work on Monday.
21. [start school/college] : Children start school at age five.
22. [start the day/week/year etc] : I usually start the day with a cup of coffee.
23. New York started the new century with a massive fireworks display.
24. Of the 36 horses that started the race
25. only four finished.
26. We started early enough but got caught in the London traffic.
27. It was time to start the long walk back home.
28. The footsteps came again
29. and then started up the stairs.
30. [start for] : Guy started for the door.
31. The new houses start immediately beyond the bridge.
32. [start from/at] : Prices for cushion covers start from £18.
33. The house numbers start at 20.
34. Have you any idea who might have started the fire?
35. The police insist that they didn’t start the confrontation.
36. Who wants to start the discussion?
37. ‘Don’t talk to me like that!’ ‘You started it!’
38. [start someone doing something] : What she said started me thinking.
39. He decided to quit his job and start his own business.
40. Scott started the engine and drove off.
41. No matter how many times he tried
42. the car wouldn’t start.
43. It only takes the slightest thing to make her start.
44. Don’t start!
45. The noise made him start.