Usually means: Initiator of a process or activity.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. starter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. starter: Merriam-Webster
  3. starter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. starter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. starter: Collins English Dictionary
  6. starter: Vocabulary.com
  7. Starter, starter: Wordnik
  8. starter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. starter: Wiktionary
  10. starter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. starter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. starter: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. starter: Dictionary.com
  14. starter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Starter (clothing line), Starter (comics), Starter (engine), Starter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Starter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. starter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. starter: Rhymezone
  19. Starter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. starter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Starter: Britih-American Dictionary
  22. starter: FreeDictionary.org
  23. starter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. starter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. starter: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. starter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. starter: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. starter: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. starter, starter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Starter: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. starter: Golfer's Dictionary
  5. Starter: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Starter: Glossary of Cheese Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Someone who starts, or who starts something.
noun:  The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
noun:  (baseball) A starting pitcher.
noun:  (golf) A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
noun:  Something that starts something.
noun:  An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.
noun:  A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp.
noun:  A yeast culture, or a medium containing one, used to start a fermentation process.
noun:  Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
noun:  The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
noun:  (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
noun:  A dog that rouses game.
noun:  (historical, British) A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
noun:  (rail transport) A railway signal controlling the starting of trains from a station or some other location, more fully called a starter signal or starting signal.

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