beginning
bi gi ning
- n the event consisting of the start of something
the beginning of the war - n the time at which something is supposed to begin
- n the first part or section of something
`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story - n the place where something begins, where it springs into being
the Italian beginning of the Renaissance - n the act of starting something
he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations - v take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- v have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
- v set in motion, cause to start
- v begin to speak or say
- v be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series
- v have a beginning, of a temporal event
- v have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- v begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- v achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative
- v begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language
- s serving to begin
the beginning canto of the poem
- So far, some 50 patients worldwide have received experimental DBS therapy for depression and OCD and that's just the beginning.
- The fact is that Hitler was beloved by his people not the military, at least not in the beginning, but by the average Germans who pledged to him an affection, a tenderness and .
- Apocalypto, which Gibson loosely translates from the Greek as "a new beginning," was inspired in large part by his work with the Mirador Basin Project, an effort to preserve a .