Starter

Definition

starter /'stɑ:tǝ(r) / n ၁။ တာထြက္သူ၊ ျမင္းစသည္။ Of the ten starters in the race only three finished. Compare NON-STARTER ၂။ တာလႊတ္ဒိုင္။ waiting for the starter's gun to fire. ၃။ အထ၊ အတတ္ (ေႏွးသည္၊ ျမန္သည္ စသည္)။ He was a late starter as a child (ie He learned to talk, walk, etc later than most children). ၄။ ႏိႈးေမာ္တာ စသည့္ စက္ႏိႈး ကိရိယာ။ a starter motor. ၅။ ( esp Brit ) ( US also appetizer ) ထမင္းစားပြဲအစ ခ်ေပးသည့္ အျမည္းပြဲ။ အျမည္း။ What would you like as a starter? ၆။ ထူေထာင္စတို႔ အတြက္ (သို႔) ပြဲဦးထြက္။ a starter home (ie one built specially for young people buying their first house) ❍ a starter kit/pack for home wine-making. ❏ for starters [ IDM ] ( infml ) အစပထမအျဖစ္။ ပြဲဦးထြက္ အျဖစ္။ What would you like (to eat) for starters? ❍ We've got to decorate the house for starters—we can think about the garden after that. ❏ under starter's orders [ IDM ] တာစူထားလ်က္။

Examples

1. ‘Throughout my whole career I've basically been a slow starter.’
2. ‘I look forward to St Valentine's Day
3. partly because I was a late starter and never received any cards or presents until I met my partner nine years ago.’
4. ‘As a professional footballer
5. Paul was a late starter.’
6. ‘After the best first round of his career by a champion who formerly had the reputation of being a slow starter
7. the only question was how long Brodie would last.’
8. ‘He does however still drift in and out of games
9. whilst he seems to be a slow starter to each new season.’
10. ‘Like his good friend Henry he has been a slow starter although he remains confident of an upturn.’
11. ‘Johnny wanted him to come out
12. but the staff said
13. you know
14. he's a slow starter.’
15. ‘He may have been a slow starter
16. but lately O'Shea has been surging forward.’
17. ‘Johnson always has been a bit of a slow starter in terms of throwing out runners.’
18. ‘Also a serious Palme d' Or contender
19. Chunhyang is a slow starter.’
20. ‘Perhaps fortunately for Finley
21. he is usually a slow starter and thus is used to overcoming slumps.’
22. ‘Favourite Ivan Denisovich was a slow starter
23. and could only finish fourth.’
24. ‘Maria had to come back from a set down against Ai Sugiyama
25. too
26. but that doesn't make her a slow starter.’
27. ‘Throughout his career
28. he has always been a slow starter - but a great finisher.’
29. ‘A slow starter at the best of times
30. he kept missing good-length balls from the mighty Murtagh and Sampson.’
31. ‘One of the things about being a slow starter is that you work a little harder.’
32. ‘Arguello was usually a slow starter and Ismael was a very good counter puncher.’
33. ‘Despite the crowd's obvious enthusiasm
34. the gig was a slow starter.’
35. ‘That's another way of saying she is a slow starter and sometimes even a no-starter.’
36. ‘It will be interesting to see how Greer
37. traditionally a slow starter
38. responds to the long layoff.’