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starter
/ˈstɑɹ.tɚ/
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What does starter mean?
noun
- Someone who starts, or who starts something.
- The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
- A starting pitcher.
More meanings (10)
noun
- A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
- 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.
- The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
- A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
- A dog that rouses game.
- Ellipsis of starter signal.
- (historical) A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈstɑɹ.tɚ/
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Inevitably, and repeatedly, he found that there was no difference between using a starter and not using one.
The starter may imitate the noises a locomotive makes as it starts out on its journey.
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He had been having a little starter, the doctor told himself, and would probably be running on high gear before he got through.
By this time Aubrey was in a thoroughly ill temper, and enjoyed quarrelling with the starter on the subject of indicators for showing the position of the elevators.
"Seventeen minutes," said the cook glancing at the Waterbury, with the air of a train starter, though this show of precision had never yet been justified by events.