Concept cluster: Activities > Initiation
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(transitive, obsolete) To cause to start; startle; start up; jump.
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(RAF slang) To abort a mission and return to base early.
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(idiomatic) To initiate a new venture, or to advance beyond previous achievements.
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To surmount initial difficulties; to overcome obstacles and make a beginning.
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To turn on power or start, as of a machine.
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Synonym of push-start
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(transitive) To allow entrance into a building from a higher floor by triggering an electronic lock.
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To transport away.
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(idiomatic) A shift from one activity to another
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To bypass a prescribed route so as to gain competitive advantage or to circumvent traffic signals or other rules of the road.
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(computing, dated, transitive) To boot up.
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(intransitive) Of an orbiting object, such as a satellite, to leave orbit.
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(parachuting) the start of something
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(transitive, figuratively) To educate reluctant pupils.
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(transport) (especially of a train) To arrive at.
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To start, begin.
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(transitive, computing, informal) To launch; to run.
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(intransitive) To travel by airplane to a destination
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(idiomatic) An especially good start.
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(intransitive, India) To go to the gym.
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(intransitive, US slang) To turn right, to take a right turn.
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(transitive) To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
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(transitive, figuratively) To reactivate or rejuvenate.
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(transitive, intransitive, idiomatic) To start; to launch.
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(transitive, figuratively) To make (something) active, functional, or productive again; to reinvigorate (an activity, system, or process).
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(transitive) To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
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(transitive) To fly better, faster, or further than.
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(transitive) To launch more spacecraft than.
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(transitive) To jump on top of someone or something quickly.
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(transitive, informal, UK) To turn on.
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(idiomatic, intransitive, of a vehicle) To come to a stop, and turn off the road (i.e. onto the roadside or hard shoulder).
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(idiomatic, especially of a vehicle) To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point.
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To do a pull-up or pull oneself up similarly.
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The starting of a vehicle in this manner.
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A narrow passageway through.
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To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
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(figuratively) To reverse the roles or positions of two things.
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(idiomatic) to gain (points etc.; in a game or sport), to accumulate
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(transitive, management) To start (something) up; to cause (something) to ramp up.
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(obsolete) To go on a military expedition.
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(television) The situation where a television programme overruns its scheduled slot.
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(idiomatic, transitive) To begin; to cause; to initiate.
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(US military slang) To transfer a serviceman against their will.
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(transitive) To initiate (a conversation, debate etc.)
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(computing, transitive) To power up, launch, or instantiate.
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(transitive) To launch or propel as if from a springboard, especially toward political office.
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To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
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To set out on a trip.
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The act or process of starting a process or machine.
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(transitive, usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
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A quantification, especially of building materials.
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Alternative form of turn the page (“move on; make a fresh start”) [(idiomatic) To move on to new involvements or activities; to make a fresh start.]
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(transitive) To set a flow of fluid or gas running by rotating a tap or valve.
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Alternative form of turn up for the book [(idiomatic) A very unexpected, usually pleasant, surprise.]
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(Britain, figuratively, colloquial) To prepare to move; to pack up; to go and live in a different place.
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(law, Australia, transitive) To remove (a document) from its current possessor and take it into one's own possession.
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(transitive) To make (an audience) enthusiastic or animated before a show

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