starter
English
Etymology
From start + -erCategory:English terms suffixed with -er#STARTER.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈstɑː.tə(ɹ)/Category:English 2-syllable words#STARTERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#STARTER
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈstɑɹ.tɚ/, [ˈstɑɹ.ɾɚ]Category:English 2-syllable words#STARTERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#STARTER
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#STARTERAudio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)#STARTERCategory:Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/2 syllables#STARTER
Noun
starter (plural starters)Category:English lemmas#STARTERCategory:English nouns#STARTERCategory:English countable nouns#STARTERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#STARTERCategory:Pages with entries#STARTERCategory:Pages with 10 entries#STARTER
- Someone who starts, or who starts something.
- 1982, Hugh Stephenson, Claret and Chips: The Rise of the SDP, page 158:
- The most charitable view taken of them by their colleagues was that, as late starters on the journey away from their Labour past, they had not fully understood that the SDP intended to be something new and not just a Mark II Labour Party […]Category:English terms with quotations#STARTER
- The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
- (baseballCategory:en:Baseball#STARTER) A starting pitcher.
- (golfCategory:en:Golf#STARTER) A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
- Something that starts something.
- 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, or a medium containing one, used to start a fermentation process.
- Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
- It's small, but it's a good starter house.Category:English terms with usage examples#STARTER
- The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
- Synonyms: entrée, hors d'oeuvre, appetizer
- Coordinate terms: main, main course, dessert
- (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
- 2024 May 6, Sid Lowe, “Portu’s brilliant burst seals Girona’s top-four fairytale in the perfect way”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- Goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga wasn’t a starter at Fulham.Category:English terms with quotations#STARTER
- A dog that rouses game.
- (historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#STARTER, BritishCategory:British English#STARTER) A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
- (rail transportCategory:en:Rail transportation#STARTER) Ellipsis of starter signalCategory:English ellipses#STARTER.
- 1961 March, “The new Glasgow Central signalbox”, in Trains Illustrated, page 179:
- The colour-light signals admitting directly to the platforms and the inner starters (for short-length departures well up the platforms) are two-aspect, while those immediately beyond them are three-aspect, but elsewhere four-aspect signals have been installed in association with route indicators.Category:English terms with quotations#STARTER
Derived terms
- blue starter
- bread starter
- bungstarter
- dynostarter
- firestarter
- glow starter
- heart starter
- jump starter
- new starter
- nonstarter
- non-starter
- remote starter
- self-starter
- starter battery
- starter cable
- starter castle
- starter dough
- starter home
- starter house
- starter kit
- starter marriage
- starter motor
- starter pack
- starter pistol
- starter signal
- starter strip
Translations
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References
- “starter”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
Category:en:Automotive#STARTERDanish
Noun
starter c (singular definite starteren, plural indefinite startere)Category:Danish lemmas#STARTERCategory:Danish nouns#STARTERCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#STARTERCategory:Danish common-gender nouns#STARTERCategory:Pages with entries#STARTERCategory:Pages with 10 entries#STARTER
Inflection
| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | starter | starteren | startere | starterne |
| genitive | starters | starterens | starteres | starternes |
Noun
starter cCategory:Danish non-lemma forms#STARTERCategory:Danish noun forms#STARTERCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#STARTERCategory:Pages with entries#STARTERCategory:Pages with 10 entries#STARTER
Verb
starterCategory:Danish non-lemma forms#STARTERCategory:Danish verb forms#STARTERCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#STARTERCategory:Pages with entries#STARTERCategory:Pages with 10 entries#STARTER
Dutch
Etymology
From starten + -erCategory:Dutch terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)#STARTER.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstɑr.tər/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#STARTER
Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#STARTERAudio: (file) - Hyphenation: star‧ter
Noun
starter m (plural starters, diminutive startertje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#STARTERCategory:Dutch nouns#STARTERCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -s#STARTERCategory:Dutch nouns with red links in their headword lines#STARTERCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#STARTERCategory:Dutch masculine nouns#STARTERCategory:Pages with entries#STARTERCategory:Pages with 10 entries#STARTER
Descendants
- → Indonesian: starter
French
Etymology 1
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:French terms borrowed from English#STARTERCategory:French terms derived from English#STARTER starter.
Pronunciation
Noun
starter m (plural starters)Category:French lemmas#STARTERCategory:French nouns#STARTERCategory:French countable nouns#STARTERCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#STARTERCategory:French masculine nouns#STARTERCategory:Pages with entries#STARTERCategory:Pages with 10 entries#STARTER
- starter (person or device)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:French terms borrowed from English#STARTERCategory:French terms derived from English#STARTER start.
Pronunciation
Verb
starterCategory:French lemmas#STARTERCategory:French verbs#STARTERCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#STARTERCategory:Pages with entries#STARTERCategory:Pages with 10 entries#STARTER
Conjugation
| infinitive | simple | starter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | startant /staʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | starté /staʁ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (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/ | |
| past historic2 | startai /staʁ.te/ |
startas /staʁ.ta/ |
starta /staʁ.ta/ |
startâmes /staʁ.tam/ |
startâtes /staʁ.tat/ |
startèrent /staʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
| 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/ | |
| 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/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | starte /staʁt/ |
startes /staʁt/ |
starte /staʁt/ |
startions /staʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
startiez /staʁ.tje/ |
startent /staʁt/ |
| imperfect2 | startasse /staʁ.tas/ |
startasses /staʁ.tas/ |
startât /staʁ.ta/ |
startassions /staʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
startassiez /staʁ.ta.sje/ |
startassent /staʁ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | starte /staʁt/ |
— | startons /staʁ.tɔ̃/ |
startez /staʁ.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “starter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from DutchCategory:Indonesian terms borrowed from Dutch#STARTERCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Dutch#STARTER starter, from EnglishCategory:Indonesian terms derived from English#STARTER starter.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈstartər/ [ˈst̪ar.t̪ər]Category:Indonesian 2-syllable words#STARTERCategory:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#STARTER
- Rhymes: -artərCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/artər#STARTERCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/artər/2 syllables#STARTER
- Syllabification: star‧ter
Noun
starter (plural starter-starter)Category:Indonesian lemmas#STARTERCategory:Indonesian nouns#STARTERCategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#STARTERCategory:Pages with entries#STARTERCategory:Pages with 10 entries#STARTER
- starter
- one who starts, or who starts something
- the person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
- (baseballCategory:id:Baseball#STARTER) a starting pitcher.
- (golfCategory:id:Golf#STARTER) a person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
- something that starts something
- (mechanical engineeringCategory:id:Mechanical engineering#STARTER) an electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.
- (electrical engineeringCategory:id:Electrical engineering#STARTER) a device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp.
- (biologyCategory:id:Biology#STARTER) a yeast culture, or a medium containing one, used to start a fermentation process.
- one who starts, or who starts something
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “starter”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from EnglishCategory:Italian terms borrowed from English#STARTERCategory:Italian unadapted borrowings from English#STARTERCategory:Italian terms derived from English#STARTER starter.
Pronunciation
Noun
starter m or f by sense (invariable)Category:Italian lemmas#STARTERCategory:Italian nouns#STARTERCategory:Italian countable nouns#STARTERCategory:Italian indeclinable nouns#STARTERCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#STARTERCategory:Italian masculine and feminine nouns by sense#STARTERCategory:Italian masculine nouns#STARTERCategory:Italian feminine nouns#STARTERCategory:Italian nouns with multiple genders#STARTERCategory:Pages with entries#STARTERCategory:Pages with 10 entries#STARTER (sportsCategory:it:Sports#STARTER)
Noun
starter mCategory:Italian lemmas#STARTERCategory:Italian nouns#STARTERCategory:Italian countable nouns#STARTERCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#STARTERCategory:Italian masculine nouns#STARTERCategory:Pages with entries#STARTERCategory:Pages with 10 entries#STARTER (electronicsCategory:it:Electronics#STARTER)
- starter (“electronic device”)
- Synonym: accenditore
Noun
starter mCategory:Italian lemmas#STARTERCategory:Italian nouns#STARTERCategory:Italian countable nouns#STARTERCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#STARTERCategory:Italian masculine nouns#STARTERCategory:Pages with entries#STARTERCategory:Pages with 10 entries#STARTER (mechanicsCategory:it:Mechanics#STARTER)
- starter (“motor starter”)
- Synonym: arricchitore
References
- ↑ starter in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Noun
starter mCategory:Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms#STARTERCategory:Norwegian Bokmål noun forms#STARTERCategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#STARTERCategory:Pages with entries#STARTERCategory:Pages with 10 entries#STARTER
Etymology 2
From starte + -erCategory:Norwegian Bokmål terms suffixed with -er#STARTER.
Noun
starter m (definite singular starteren, indefinite plural startere, definite plural starterne)Category:Norwegian Bokmål lemmas#STARTERCategory:Norwegian Bokmål nouns#STARTERCategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#STARTERCategory:Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns#STARTERCategory:Pages with entries#STARTERCategory:Pages with 10 entries#STARTER
Synonyms
Etymology 3
Verb
starterCategory:Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms#STARTERCategory:Norwegian Bokmål verb forms#STARTERCategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#STARTERCategory:Pages with entries#STARTERCategory:Pages with 10 entries#STARTER
See also
- startar (Nynorsk)
References
- “starter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from French#STARTERCategory:Romanian terms derived from French#STARTER starter.
Noun
starter n (plural starteri)Category:Romanian lemmas#STARTERCategory:Romanian nouns#STARTERCategory:Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines#STARTERCategory:Romanian countable nouns#STARTERCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#STARTERCategory:Romanian neuter nouns#STARTERCategory:Pages with entries#STARTERCategory:Pages with 10 entries#STARTER
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | starter | starterul | starteri | starterile |
| genitive-dative | starter | starterului | starteri | starterilor |
| vocative | starterule | starterilor | ||
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms borrowed from English#STARTERCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms derived from English#STARTER starter.
Noun
starter m inan (Cyrillic spelling стартер)Category:Serbo-Croatian lemmas#STARTERCategory:Serbo-Croatian nouns#STARTERCategory:Requests for accents in Serbo-Croatian noun entries#STARTERCategory:Serbo-Croatian masculine inanimate nouns#STARTERCategory:Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header#STARTERCategory:Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns#STARTERCategory:Serbo-Croatian inanimate nouns#STARTERCategory:Pages with entries#STARTERCategory:Pages with 10 entries#STARTER
Swedish
Noun
starterCategory:Swedish non-lemma forms#STARTERCategory:Swedish noun forms#STARTERCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#STARTERCategory:Pages with entries#STARTERCategory:Pages with 10 entries#STARTER
