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Opening 84% connected

of Open

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Opening 84% connected

of Open

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Narrower term 52

Attack 76% connected

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

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Birth 76% connected

The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

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Birthplace 76% connected

The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense.

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Conception 76% connected

The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

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Constitution 76% connected

The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.

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Cradle 76% connected

A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in t…

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Creation 76% connected

The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.

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Debut 76% connected

A beginning or first attempt; hence, a first appearance before the public, as of an actor or public speaker.

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Derivation 76% connected

A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

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Egress 76% connected

The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure.

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Emergence 76% connected

The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance.

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Entry 76% connected

The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city;…

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Establishment 76% connected

The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

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Formation 76% connected

The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

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Foundation 76% connected

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

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Founding 76% connected

of Found

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Generation 76% connected

The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

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Genesis 76% connected

The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination.

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Growth 76% connected

The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity;…

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Headspring 76% connected

Fountain; source.

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Home 76% connected

See Homelyn.

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Inauguration 76% connected

The act of inuagurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies.

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Inception 76% connected

Beginning; commencement; initiation.

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Incipience 76% connected

Alt. of Incipiency

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Incipiency 76% connected

Beginning; commencement; incipient state.

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Initiation 76% connected

The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced; as, initiation into a society, into business, literature, etc.

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Initiative 76% connected

Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.

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Innovation 76% connected

The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.

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Installation 76% connected

The act of installing or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained mini…

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Installing 76% connected

of Install

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Installment 76% connected

The act of installing; installation.

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Instalment 76% connected

the act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes"

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Instauration 76% connected

Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance.

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Institution 76% connected

The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.

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Introduction 76% connected

The act of introducing, or bringing to notice.

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Issue 76% connected

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

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Launching 76% connected

of Launch

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Opening 76% connected

of Open

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Organization 76% connected

The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.

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Origin 76% connected

The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.

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Origination 76% connected

The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.

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Outgrowth 76% connected

That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

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Recommencement 76% connected

A commencement made anew.

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Resumption 76% connected

The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc.

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Scrummage 76% connected

See Scrimmage.

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Spring 76% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

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Springboard 76% connected

An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.

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Start 76% connected

To leap; to jump.

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Threshold 76% connected

The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entr…

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Wellhead 76% connected

A source, spring, or fountain.

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Wellspring 76% connected

A fountain; a spring; a source of continual supply.

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Division 76% connected

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

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Happening 76% connected

of Happen

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Occurrence 76% connected

A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision.

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Occurrent 76% connected

Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.

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Part 76% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Section 76% connected

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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Begin 74% connected

To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.

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Begin 74% connected

To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.

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Synonym 8

Commencement 92% connected

The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.

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First 92% connected

Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.

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Offset 92% connected

In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something

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Origin 92% connected

The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.

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Outset 92% connected

A setting out, starting, or beginning.

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Root 92% connected

To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.

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Source 92% connected

The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

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Start 92% connected

To leap; to jump.

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Conclusion 94% connected

The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

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Conclusion 94% connected

The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

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End 94% connected

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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End 94% connected

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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Middle 94% connected

Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station…

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Middle 94% connected

Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station…

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