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Webster 1913 Edition
Starter
Start′er
(stärt′ẽr)
, Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, starts;
as, a
. starter
on a journey; the starter
of a race2.
A dog that rouses game.
Webster 1828 Edition
Starter
STARTER
,Noun.
1.
One that starts; one that shrinks from his purpose.2.
One that suddenly moves or suggests a question or an objection.3.
A dog that rouses game.Definition 2024
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English
Noun
starter (plural starters)
- Someone who starts something.
- a starter on a journey
- The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag
- (baseball) A starting pitcher.
- Something that starts something.
- It's small, but it's a good starter house.
- An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine
- A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp
- A yeast culture used to start a fermentation process
- The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
- (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
- A dog that rouses game.
Synonyms
- (first course of a meal) hors d’oeuvre
Translations
first course of a meal
electric motor that starts an internal-combustion engine
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Anagrams
Danish
Noun
starter c (singular definite starteren, plural indefinite startere)
Inflection
Inflection of starter
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | starter | starteren | startere | starterne |
| genitive | starters | starterens | starteres | starternes |
Noun
starter c
- plural indefinite of start
Verb
starter
- present tense of starte
French
Etymology
Borrowing from English starter.
Noun
starter m (plural starters)
- starter (person or device)
Verb
starter
Conjugation
Conjugation of starter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | starter | avoir starté | |||||
| gerund | en startant | en ayant starté | |||||
| present participle | startant /staʁ.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | starté /staʁ.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | starte /staʁt/ |
startes /staʁt/ |
starte /staʁt/ |
startons /staʁ.tɔ̃/ |
startez /staʁ.te/ |
startent /staʁt/ |
| imperfect | startais /staʁ.tɛ/ |
startais /staʁ.tɛ/ |
startait /staʁ.tɛ/ |
startions /staʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
startiez /staʁ.tje/ |
startaient /staʁ.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | startai /staʁ.te/ |
startas /staʁ.ta/ |
starta /staʁ.ta/ |
startâmes /staʁ.tam/ |
startâtes /staʁ.tat/ |
startèrent /staʁ.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | starterai /staʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
starteras /staʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
startera /staʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
starterons /staʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
starterez /staʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
starteront /staʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | starterais /staʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
starterais /staʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
starterait /staʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
starterions /staʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
starteriez /staʁ.tə.ʁje/ |
starteraient /staʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | starte /staʁt/ |
startes /staʁt/ |
starte /staʁt/ |
startions /staʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
startiez /staʁ.tje/ |
startent /staʁt/ |
| imperfect1 |
startasse /staʁ.tas/ |
startasses /staʁ.tas/ |
startât /staʁ.ta/ |
startassions /staʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
startassiez /staʁ.ta.sje/ |
startassent /staʁ.tas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | starte /staʁt/ |
— | startons /staʁ.tɔ̃/ |
startez /staʁ.te/ |
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Italian
Etymology
Borrowing from English starter.
Noun
starter m (invariable)
- starter (sports; car engine)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Noun
starter m
- indefinite plural of start
Etymology 2
Noun
starter m (definite singular starteren, indefinite plural startere, definite plural starterne)
Synonyms
Etymology 3
Verb
starter
- present tense of starte
See also
- startar (Nynorsk)
References
- “starter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.