Usually means: Initiation points of events or actions.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. starts: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. starts: Merriam-Webster
  3. starts: Collins English Dictionary
  4. starts: Vocabulary.com
  5. Start's, Starts, start's, starts: Wordnik
  6. starts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Starts, starts: Wiktionary
  8. starts: Dictionary.com
  9. starts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. starts: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. starts: Legal dictionary
  2. starts: Financial dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. starts: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. starts: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Starts: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (START)

noun:  The beginning of an activity.
noun:  A sudden involuntary movement.
noun:  The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
noun:  An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
noun:  (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
noun:  An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
noun:  (UK, slang, archaic) A happening or proceeding.
verb:  (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
verb:  To set in motion.
verb:  To begin.
verb:  To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
verb:  To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
verb:  To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
verb:  (intransitive) To begin an activity.
verb:  (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
verb:  To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
verb:  (intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise.
verb:  (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
verb:  (transitive) To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
verb:  (intransitive) To flinch or draw back.
verb:  (transitive) To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
verb:  (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
verb:  (transitive, sports) To put into play.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
verb:  (intransitive, euphemistic) To start one's periods (menstruation).
noun:  An instance of starting.
noun:  A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
noun:  A handle, especially that of a plough.
noun:  The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
noun:  The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
adverb:  (dialectal, archaic) Completely, utterly.
noun:  A typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option.
noun:  A surname from Old English.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) The city of London, England.
noun:  (medicine) Acronym of simple triage and rapid treatment.
noun:  (law) Acronym of Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
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