Usually means: Initiator of a process or activity.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. starter: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. starter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. starter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. starter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. starter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Starter, starter: Wordnik
  7. starter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. starter: Wiktionary
  9. starter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. starter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. starter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. starter: Dictionary.com
  13. starter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Starter (clothing line), Starter (comics), Starter (engine), Starter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Starter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. starter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. starter: Rhymezone
  18. Starter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. starter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Starter: Britih-American Dictionary
  21. starter: Free Dictionary
  22. starter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. starter: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. 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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