Begin: alternatives and connections

To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.

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To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.

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Jet, the mineral.

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Jet, the mineral.

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To leap; to jump.

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To leap; to jump.

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To complete, as time or distance.

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To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise.

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That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.

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To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Jet, the mineral.

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of Have

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To lead in; to introduce.

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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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To retch.

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To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

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To leap; to jump.

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To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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Outer.

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To convert into a verb; to verbify.

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To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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Auspicious.

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A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flowe…

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of Come

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To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.

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To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.

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To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.

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To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet…

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To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava.

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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are calle…

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To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.

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Invested with office; inaugurated.

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To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.

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To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.

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That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

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Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over;…

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To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.

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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to pl…

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To commence or begin again.

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of Run

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To leap; to jump.

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of Begin

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of Begin

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One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.

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One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.

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To leap; to jump.

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To leap; to jump.

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To leap; to jump.

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To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.

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Jet, the mineral.

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To leap; to jump.

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To leap; to jump.

Begin is usually interchangeable with start in neutral contexts.

To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.

Commence overlaps with begin, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

Initiate overlaps with begin, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.

Launch overlaps with begin, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over;…

Open overlaps with begin, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.

Originate overlaps with begin, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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