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starter

See also: Starter

English

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Etymology

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From start +‎ -er.

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Noun

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starter (plural starters)

  1. Someone who starts, or who starts something.
    • 1982, Hugh Stephenson, Claret and Chips: The Rise of the SDP, page 158:
      The most charitable view taken of them by their colleagues was that, as late starters on the journey away from their Labour past, they had not fully understood that the SDP intended to be something new and not just a Mark II Labour Party […]
    1. The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
    2. (baseball) A starting pitcher.
    3. (golf) A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
  2. Something that starts something.
    1. An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.
    2. A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp.
    4. A yeast culture, or a medium containing one, used to start a fermentation process.
      Hypernyms: mother, sour mash
  3. Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
    It's small, but it's a good starter house.
  4. The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
    Synonyms: entrée, hors d'oeuvre, appetizer
    Coordinate terms: main, main course, dessert
  5. (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
    • 2024 May 6, Sid Lowe, “Portu’s brilliant burst seals Girona’s top-four fairytale in the perfect way”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      Goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga wasn’t a starter at Fulham.
  6. A dog that rouses game.
  7. (historical, British) A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
  8. (rail transport) A railway signal controlling the starting of trains from a station or some other location, more fully called a starter signal or starting signal.
    • 1961 March, “The new Glasgow Central signalbox”, in Trains Illustrated, page 179:
      The colour-light signals admitting directly to the platforms and the inner starters (for short-length departures well up the platforms) are two-aspect, while those immediately beyond them are three-aspect, but elsewhere four-aspect signals have been installed in association with route indicators.

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Danish

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Noun

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starter c (singular definite starteren, plural indefinite startere)

  1. starter

Inflection

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Declension of starter
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative starter starteren startere starterne
genitive starters starterens starteres starternes

Noun

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starter c

  1. indefinite plural of start

Verb

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starter

  1. present of starte

Dutch

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Etymology

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From starten +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈstɑr.tər/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: star‧ter

Noun

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starter m (plural starters, diminutive startertje n)

  1. starter, one who starts; in particular
    1. first-time home buyer
    2. start-up

French

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English starter.

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Noun

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starter m (plural starters)

  1. starter (person or device)

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English start.

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Verb

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starter

  1. (North America) Synonym of démarrer
Conjugation
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Conjugation of starter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple starter
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple startant
/staʁ.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle starté
/staʁ.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present starte
/staʁt/ 		startes
/staʁt/ 		starte
/staʁt/ 		startons
/staʁ.tɔ̃/ 		startez
/staʁ.te/ 		startent
/staʁt/
imperfect startais
/staʁ.tɛ/ 		startais
/staʁ.tɛ/ 		startait
/staʁ.tɛ/ 		startions
/staʁ.tjɔ̃/ 		startiez
/staʁ.tje/ 		startaient
/staʁ.tɛ/
past historic2 startai
/staʁ.te/ 		startas
/staʁ.ta/ 		starta
/staʁ.ta/ 		startâmes
/staʁ.tam/ 		startâtes
/staʁ.tat/ 		startèrent
/staʁ.tɛʁ/
future starterai
/staʁ.tə.ʁe/ 		starteras
/staʁ.tə.ʁa/ 		startera
/staʁ.tə.ʁa/ 		starterons
/staʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ 		starterez
/staʁ.tə.ʁe/ 		starteront
/staʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional starterais
/staʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ 		starterais
/staʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ 		starterait
/staʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ 		starterions
/staʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		starteriez
/staʁ.tə.ʁje/ 		starteraient
/staʁ.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present starte
/staʁt/ 		startes
/staʁt/ 		starte
/staʁt/ 		startions
/staʁ.tjɔ̃/ 		startiez
/staʁ.tje/ 		startent
/staʁt/
imperfect2 startasse
/staʁ.tas/ 		startasses
/staʁ.tas/ 		startât
/staʁ.ta/ 		startassions
/staʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ 		startassiez
/staʁ.ta.sje/ 		startassent
/staʁ.tas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — starte
/staʁt/ 		— startons
/staʁ.tɔ̃/ 		startez
/staʁ.te/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English starter.

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starter m (invariable)

  1. starter (sports; car engine)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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starter m

  1. indefinite plural of start

Etymology 2

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From starte +‎ -er.

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starter m (definite singular starteren, indefinite plural startere, definite plural starterne)

  1. a starter (person who gives a starting signal)
  2. a starter (starter motor)
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Etymology 3

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Verb

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starter

  1. present tense of starte

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French starter.

Noun

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starter n (plural starteri)

  1. starter

Declension

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Declension of starter
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) starter starterul (niște) starteri starterile
genitive/dative (unui) starter starterului (unor) starteri starterilor
vocative starterule starterilor

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English starter.

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starter m (Cyrillic spelling стартер)

  1. A device that starts an engine or a machine.
    Synonym: anlaser

Swedish

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Noun

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starter

  1. indefinite plural of start

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