To begin a movement, activity, or undertaking, To have a beginning; commence, To move one's body or a part of it suddenly or involuntarily, noun_ A position of advantage over others, as in a race or an endeavor; a lead, A startled reaction or movement, In an overshot water-wheel, one of the partitions which determine the form of the bucket
A device that initiates a flow of high voltage across the electrodes of a fluorescent lamp, A participant that starts in a game or race, A pitcher who regularly begins games for a team
Present participle of start, adjective_ (especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear, appropriate to the beginning or start of an event, noun_ a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
the act or process of starting a process or machine, A business or undertaking that has recently begun operation, a new organization or business venture
Immediately, now ? usually used in medical situations, to connote extreme urgency, adverb & adjective_ With no delay; at once. Used especially in medicine, noun_ A statistic, An abbreviation of the Latin statim, immediately, Short for statistics
A condition of being in a stage or form, as of structure, growth, or development, Physics The condition of a physical system with regard to phase, form, composition, or structure, One of the more or less internally autonomous territorial and political units composing a federation under a sovereign government, adjective_ Of or relating to a body politic or to an internally autonomous territorial or political unit constituting a federation under one government, Owned and operated by a state, transitive verb_ To set forth in words; declare, rare To set; to settle; to establish.
Simple past tense and past participle of state, adjective_ Settled; established; fixed, declared as fact; explicitly stated, Recurring at regular times; not occasional