begin — Dizionario inglese

Verbo

1. To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.

   TraduzioneCominciare, avviare o fare il primo passo in qualcosa.

   Uso

   • ergative

   Esempi

   We begin work at nine.

   I began playing the piano at the age of five.

   Now that everyone is here, we should begin the presentation.

   Altri esempi (10)

   The program begins at 9 o’clock on the dot.

   I rushed to get to class on time, but the lesson had already begun.

   The Apoſtle begins our Knowledge in the Creatures, which lead us to the Knowledge of God, if we will make uſe of our Reaſon: [...]

   Ye Nymphs of Solyma! begin the ſong: / To heav'nly themes ſublimer ſtrains belong.

   Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.

   Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

   As Andrew, in particular, began to work on renovation and improvement, his talk about this began to be peppered with references to 'bodgery' — 'When I look at it, all I see is bodgery, he says recurrently, with a mixture of exclamation and despair.

   Similarly, the biotech giant Cargill has begun manufacturing a polymer from vegetable oils that is used in polyurethane foams, which is found in beddings, furniture and car-seat headrests.

   State begins fouling and UCLA misses a couple of front-end free throws on one-and-ones.

   Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.

2. To come into existence.

   Uso

   • intransitivo

   Esempi

   Vast chain of being! which from God began.

Sostantivo

1. Beginning; start.

   Uso

   • nonstandard

   Esempi

   In prayer, in the light, I see my kin / I touch my tree, my roots, my begin

Verbo

1. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

   Sinonimi

   get downgetstart outstartset aboutset outcommence

   Contrari

   end

   Termini più generali

   actmove

   Esempi

   We began working at dawn

   Who will start?

   Altri esempi (4)

   Get working as soon as the sun rises!

   The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia

   He began early in the day

   Let's get down to work now

2. have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense

   Sinonimi

   start

   Contrari

   end

   Termini più generali

   change

   Esempi

   The DMZ begins right over the hill

   The second movement begins after the Allegro

   Altri esempi (1)

   Prices for these homes start at $250,000

3. set in motion, cause to start

   Sinonimi

   lead offstartcommence

   Contrari

   end

   Termini più generali

   inducestimulatecausehavegetmake

   Esempi

   The U.S. started a war in the Middle East

   The Iraqis began hostilities

   Altri esempi (1)

   begin a new chapter in your life

4. begin to speak or say

   Termini più generali

   talkspeakuttermouthverbalizeverbalise

   Esempi

   ‘Now listen, friends’, he began

5. be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series

   Termini più generali

   existbe

   Esempi

   The number ‘one’ begins the sequence

   A terrible murder begins the novel

   Altri esempi (1)

   The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester

6. have a beginning, of a temporal event

   Termini più generali

   start

   Esempi

   WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland

   The company's Asia tour begins next month

7. have a beginning characterized in some specified way

   Sinonimi

   start

   Termini più generali

   existbe

   Esempi

   The novel begins with a murder

   My property begins with the three maple trees

   Altri esempi (2)

   Her day begins with a workout

   The semester begins with a convocation ceremony

8. begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object

   Sinonimi

   start

   Termini più generali

   actmove

   Esempi

   begin a cigar

   She started the soup while it was still hot

   Altri esempi (1)

   We started physics in 10th grade

9. achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative

   Termini più generali

   achieveaccomplishattainreach

   Esempi

   This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation

   You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war

10. begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language

    Termini più generali

    actmove

    Esempi

    She began Russian at an early age

    we began French in fourth grade