v
(transitive, obsolete) To cause to start; startle; start up; jump.
v
(RAF slang) To abort a mission and return to base early.
v
(idiomatic) To initiate a new venture, or to advance beyond previous achievements.
v
To surmount initial difficulties; to overcome obstacles and make a beginning.
v
To turn on power or start, as of a machine.
v
(transitive) To allow entrance into a building from a higher floor by triggering an electronic lock.
n
(idiomatic) A shift from one activity to another
v
To bypass a prescribed route so as to gain competitive advantage or to circumvent traffic signals or other rules of the road.
v
(computing, dated, transitive) To boot up.
v
(intransitive) Of an orbiting object, such as a satellite, to leave orbit.
n
(parachuting) the start of something
v
(transitive, figuratively) To educate reluctant pupils.
v
(transport) (especially of a train) To arrive at.
v
(transitive, computing, informal) To launch; to run.
v
(intransitive) To travel by airplane to a destination
n
(idiomatic) An especially good start.
v
(intransitive, India) To go to the gym.
v
(intransitive, US slang) To turn right, to take a right turn.
v
(transitive) To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To reactivate or rejuvenate.
v
(transitive, intransitive, idiomatic) To start; to launch.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To make (something) active, functional, or productive again; to reinvigorate (an activity, system, or process).
v
(transitive) To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
v
(transitive) To fly better, faster, or further than.
v
(transitive) To launch more spacecraft than.
v
(transitive) To jump on top of someone or something quickly.
v
(transitive, informal, UK) To turn on.
v
(idiomatic, intransitive, of a vehicle) To come to a stop, and turn off the road (i.e. onto the roadside or hard shoulder).
v
(idiomatic, especially of a vehicle) To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point.
v
To do a pull-up or pull oneself up similarly.
n
The starting of a vehicle in this manner.
n
A narrow passageway through.
v
To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
v
(figuratively) To reverse the roles or positions of two things.
v
(idiomatic) to gain (points etc.; in a game or sport), to accumulate
v
(transitive, management) To start (something) up; to cause (something) to ramp up.
v
(obsolete) To go on a military expedition.
n
(television) The situation where a television programme overruns its scheduled slot.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To begin; to cause; to initiate.
v
(US military slang) To transfer a serviceman against their will.
v
(transitive) To initiate (a conversation, debate etc.)
v
(computing, transitive) To power up, launch, or instantiate.
v
(transitive) To launch or propel as if from a springboard, especially toward political office.
v
To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
n
The act or process of starting a process or machine.
v
(transitive, usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
n
A quantification, especially of building materials.
v
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.]
v
(transitive) To set a flow of fluid or gas running by rotating a tap or valve.
n
Alternative form of turn up for the book [(idiomatic) A very unexpected, usually pleasant, surprise.]
v
(Britain, figuratively, colloquial) To prepare to move; to pack up; to go and live in a different place.
v
(law, Australia, transitive) To remove (a document) from its current possessor and take it into one's own possession.
v
(transitive) To make (an audience) enthusiastic or animated before a show
Note: Concept clusters like the one above are an experimental OneLook
feature. We've grouped words and phrases into thousands of clusters
based on a statistical analysis of how they are used in writing. Some
of the words and concepts may be vulgar or offensive. The names of the
clusters were written automatically and may not precisely describe
every word within the cluster; furthermore, the clusters may be
missing some entries that you'd normally associate with their
names. Click on a word to look it up on OneLook.
Our daily word games Threepeat and Compound Your Joy are going strong. Bookmark and enjoy!
Today's secret word is 8 letters and means "Job requiring little to no work." Can you find it?