0 past simple and past participle of start
1 to begin doing something:
We'll be starting (the session) at six o'clock.
[ + -ing verb ] They started building the house in January.
[ + to infinitive ] I'd just started to write a letter when the phone rang.
A lot of new restaurants have started up in the region.
The speaker started with a description of her journey to China.
You could start by weeding the flowerbeds.
He started his working life as an engineer but later became a teacher.
Don't start with me - we're not going and that's that!
informal "It would help if Richard did some work." "Oh, don't get me started on Richard!"
When can we get started?
You could tell the guy wanted to start something, so we just walked away.
We only knew two people in Montreal to start with, but we soon made friends.
To start with, we need better computers - then we need more training.
2 to begin at one point and then move to another, in distance or range:
3 to move your body suddenly because something has surprised or frightened you:
He started as an actor, making his debut as a director in 1990.
As soon as the war started, any broadcasts with a military theme were taken off the air.
People have started to gossip about us.
Then everything suddenly got much more complicated, as researchers started coming up with new theoretical and methodological bases for language teaching.
At this point, things started to fall into place.
Because my research started out by locating sufficient conditions for stability in heterogeneous capital goods models, and that problem still fascinates me to this day.
