Starting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STARTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• begin or be reckoned from a particular point in time or space; come into being
• embark on a continuing action or a new venture
• use a particular point, action, or circumstance as an opening for a course of action
• begin to move or travel
• begin to engage in (an occupation), live through (a period), or attend (an educational establishment)
• cost at least a specified amount
• cause to happen or begin
• cause (a machine) to begin to work
• (of a machine) begin operating or being used
• cause or enable to begin doing something
• give a signal to (competitors) to start in a race.
• jerk or give a small jump from surprise or alarm
• move or appear suddenly
• (of eyes) bulge so as to appear to burst out of their sockets
• be displaced or displace by pressure or shrinkage
• rouse (game) from its lair.
• begin one's working life
RESIDUAL:
• Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, an agreement between the US and the Soviet Union to limit and reduce strategic nuclear weapons, first signed in 1991.
NOUN:
• the act of starting
• the point in time or space at which something has its origin; the beginning
• the point or moment at which a race begins
• an act of beginning to do or deal with something
• used to indicate that a useful initial contribution has been made but that more remains to be done
• a sudden movement of surprise or alarm
• a surprising occurrence
• a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
• a person's position or circumstances at the beginning of their life
• an advantage consisting in having set out in a race or on a journey earlier than one's rivals
ADJECTIVE:
• beginning
• (especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear
• appropriate to the beginning or start of an event
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to set out
• a. & n. from Start, v.

Words related to STARTING

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How to use STARTING in a sentence

• The driver passed over the bottle and at the same time lighted a match for the apparent purpose of starting his cigarette.
• As I lay restless on my bed, I suddenly heard a gun fired, and, starting up in some alarm, I hastily put on my clothes and descended to the bar of the hotel.
• In the morning, to my astonishment, there were no indications of starting.
• Then there was Jim, poor old Jim! He wrote to say he was just starting for Melbourne, and very queer he felt about leaving his wife and boy.
• The starting motion was pleasant, but very soon it flew with a swiftness and to a height rather alarming.
• At eleven and a half minutes past three, twenty-nine minutes and thirty-one seconds after starting, Santos-Dumont crossed the line, the winner of the Deutsch Prize.
• We considered we were just starting, and that was many weeks ago.
• And I should have the pleasure of starting the business all over again.
• What was not told him before starting, therefore, could not be told by mouth till after arrival.
• On our starting the yacht was about four miles ahead of us, steering a course that would take her straight to Sebastopol.
• He was not ashamed to declare, at starting, that he firmly believed the prisoner to be guilty.
• This was exactly the best way of starting a conversation, and, my schoolboy reserve being once broken, we chatted away merrily.
• This one returns to the starting line, rolling on the mat as did his predecessor.
• The race ends when they have crossed the starting line.
• But we can have a non-re-entrant path over the whole board in fourteen moves, starting from any given square.
• Starting at noon, we passed through the modern Sparta, which is well laid out with broad streets.
• Tons of food and clothing have already been sent to the island, and almost every day we read of some vessel starting for Cuba with supplies for these unfortunate people.
• This is a town two hundred miles west of Caracas, and situated in the mountains, which, starting here, extend down the whole western coast of South America.
• But my expenses are heavy at starting, and when they are all paid I am afraid I shall have very little left to put by for the first year.
• Vincent had, before starting, told his mother of the share he had taken in getting the negro safely away, and Mrs.
• A star had been seen, night after night, rising in the east as usual, and starting on its course toward the south.
• Even in 1850, when Wordsworth died, this diminution of popularity was visible, and occasioned the remark of Lord Macaulay which I quoted at starting.
• Starting up, she ran into the passage, but James was not there.
• He took the lesson well to heart, thus starting himself on the road to self-reliance.
• Fortunately I controlled myself, and under the excuse of starting the herd at daybreak, I excused myself and sought my blankets.
• Together my foreman and I planned for starting an improved herd of cattle.
• Today civilization is a bad buy, especially for young people starting out in life.
• She could not help starting and drawing in her breath.
• At last, nearly an hour after starting, the boys made out a great deserted tower just ahead.
• But the teacher had sought for and found a starting point from which to explain the meaning of faith in terms that the children could understand.
• I was purchased by a gentleman residing in the city, for a waiting-maid for his wife, who was just on the eve of starting for Mobile, to pay a visit to a near relation.
• It was Alice who broke the silence by starting to sing, and song followed song, all joining when there was a chorus.

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