0 past simple and past participle of start --
1 to begin doing something: --
To start with, we need better computers - then we need more training.
We only knew two people in Montreal to start with, but we soon made friends.
You could tell the guy wanted to start something, so we just walked away.
When can we get started?
informal "It would help if Richard did some work." "Oh, don't get me started on Richard!"
Don't start with me - we're not going and that's that!
He started his working life as an engineer but later became a teacher.
You could start by weeding the flowerbeds.
The speaker started with a description of her journey to China.
A lot of new restaurants have started up in the region.
[ + to infinitive ] I'd just started to write a letter when the phone rang.
[ + -ing verb ] They started building the house in January.
We'll be starting (the session) at six o'clock.
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: --
Hence, he started to carry out research that could be applied to such environmental problems as degradation of monuments due to atmospheric pollution.
They started to act as self-conscious actors in the local arenas and, maybe even more important, they were recognised as such by locals and non-locals.
The motion thus started continued downstream in the form of a pair of trailing vortices.
The integration must be started from the downstream singular point and this guarantees the existence of a unique solution.
The abscess was drained and antibiotic therapy was started.
They generally started as small-scale traders and gradually enlarged the scale of their operations.
The numerical integration is started at the singular point r = 0 by using asymptotic expression of the solutions.
Random matrix history started in the physics of heavy atoms and multivariate statistics.
