Beginning
[bɪ'gɪnɪŋ] or [bɪ'ɡɪnɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of starting something; 'he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations'.
(noun.) the first part or section of something; '`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story'.
(noun.) the event consisting of the start of something; 'the beginning of the war'.
(noun.) the place where something begins, where it springs into being; 'the Italian beginning of the Renaissance'; 'Jupiter was the origin of the radiation'; 'Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River'; 'communism's Russian root'.
(noun.) the time at which something is supposed to begin; 'they got an early start'; 'she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her'.
(adj.) serving to begin; 'the beginning canto of the poem'; 'the first verse' .
Typed by Jerry--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Begin
(n.) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
(n.) That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
(n.) That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
(n.) Enterprise.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Commencement, outset, opening, start.[2]. Origin, source, rise.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Commencement, start, origin, rise, initiation, preparation, preface, prelude,inauguration, inception, threshold, opening, source, outset, foundation
ANT:End, close, termination, conclusion, consummation, completion
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Examples
- These got fairly to work at the beginning of the century, and the uses of machinery spread to the treatment of leather. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I never meant, my dear Wegg--' Mr Boffin was beginning, when Silas stopped him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This was a very primitive device, requiring several minutes for the engine to make one stroke, but it was the beginning of the practical use of steam as a motive power. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Really, girls, you are both to be blamed, said Meg, beginning to lecture in her elder-sisterly fashion. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He had met her before breakfast as he was returning from a walk with his little boys, when it had been just beginning to rain. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I announced on beginning it that this narrative would be a remarkable document. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was therefore from the beginning a divided thing of uncertain power, a claim and an argument rather than a necessary reality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The times were full of stir and intellectual intereSt. The distant murmur of the Reformation was beginning to be heard. Plato. The Republic.
- And so we find them developing fibre and support, and the beginning of _woody fibre_ in them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But we can begin without a beginning, can't we? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Until the beginning of 1882 there were only a few arc-lighting stations in existence for the limited distribution of current. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I ain't mad; I'm sensible,' rejoined the fat boy, beginning to cry. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Metallurgy is an ancient art, and the working of gold, silver and copper dates back to the beginning of history. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We again advanced, and occupied at the close of the battle substantially the ground held by the enemy at the beginning. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If I had to give her up, it would be like beginning to live on wooden legs. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Of the working out of these beginnings we shall tell later. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- From the very beginnings of civilization the little children of the poor had always been obliged to do whatever work they could do. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- History can deal with the small beginnings in the past of the great things of the present, but in the present only with what is plain and obvious. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Beautiful records of such beginnings of science were among the neglected treasures of the rich men's libraries throughout the imperial domains. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To this period belong the beginnings of Buddhistic art. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These beginnings and crudities are very remote from the elaborate and expensive paraphernalia and machinery with which the art is furnished to-day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In its rude beginnings, the unimproved wilds, which then occupy the far greater part of the country, are all abandoned to cattle. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- With the beginnings of agriculture a fresh set of ideas arose in men's minds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have told of the first release of human curiosity and of the beginnings of systematic inquiry and experiment. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- History is and must always be no more than an account of beginnings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have already, in our first account of Chinese beginnings, noted the existence of these Huns. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have dealt thus fully with the beginnings of science in the Middle Ages because of its ultimate importance in human affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It seems to have done so universally in the rude beginnings of agriculture. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- To watch this schism creeping across the brave beginnings of Islam is like watching a case of softening of the brain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This lovely efflorescence marks the appearance of a body of craftsmen closely linked in its beginnings to the church. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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