start noun
ADJ. auspicious, bright, encouraging, flying, good, great, impressive, promising, sound, wonderful Despite a bright start, Liverpool lost the match. | disappointing, disastrous, poor, rocky, shaky, slow, uncertain | false After a couple of false starts, she found the job that suited her. | fresh, new | early, late | very right from the very start
VERB + START make I think it's time we made a start. | get off to The company has got off to an impressive start this financial year. | herald, mark
START + NOUN button, date, signal
PREP. at the ~ (of) Everyone was in a conciliatory mood at the start of the meeting. | from the ~ She felt at home in her new job right from the start. | ~ to The fine winter weather heralded a good start to the year. | ~ in Moving to a good school gave Sally a fresh start in life.
PHRASES from start to finish This is a thoroughly good book from start to finish.
start verb
ADV. suddenly Her heart suddenly started to race. | immediately | just He has just started at school. At that point I just started to hate the man. | off, out We'll start off by doing some warm-up exercises. | (all over) again We'll just have to start all over again.
VERB + START decide to, expect to, hope to, intend to, plan to | be due to, be expected to, be scheduled to Work is due to start this weekend. | be ready to By early evening he was ready to start work. | be about to, be going to A new term was about to start. | had better You'd better start packing if you're to leave early tomorrow morning.
PREP. by Let's start by reviewing what we did last week. | from Start from the beginning and tell me exactly what happened. | on I've finished decorating the bathroom, so now I can start on the bedroom. | with Let's start with this first piece of music.
PHRASES get started It's already quite late, so I think we should get started. | let's start
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