Definition of beggin
1. begin [ v ] take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
Examples: : "We began working at dawn"
"Who will start?"
"Get working as soon as the sun rises!"
"The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"
"He began early in the day"
(Musical America, LXXXI:5...)
But time is running_out , and many_of Stravinsky 's admirers begin to fear that he will never find terra_firma .
(Norman Kent, "The Watercolor Art of Roy M. Mason"...)
What I have observed time_and_time_again is a process of integration , integration that begins as abstract design and gradually takes_on recognizable form ; color patterns that are made to weave throughout the whole composition ; and that over_all , amazing control of large washes which is the Mason stylemark .
(Sports Age, 24:9...)
Here you begin to appreciate the scope of the challenges and possibilities facing the industry .
(Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)
And she begins to regard him as savage , bestial and unworthy .
To win her favors , her husband first took an additional job , then desperately began to embezzle from his employer .
Synonyms begin start set_out commence start_out get_down set_about get Related Terms end get_cracking launch plunge get_to break_in embark attack jump_off auspicate come_on recommence strike_out fall beginning newcomer novice2. begin [ v ] have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
Examples: : "The DMZ begins right over the hill"
"The second movement begins after the Allegro"
"Prices for these homes start at $250,000"
(The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans],...)
Within an easy walk from Capitol_Hill where Pennsylvania_Avenue comes together with Constitution_Avenue , begins a series of great federal buildings , some a block long and all about seven-stories high .
(Chicago Daily Tribune...)
The Chicago_Press club will fete George_E._Barnes , president_of_the_United_States Lawn_Tennis association , at a cocktail_party and buffet supper beginning at 5 : 30 p. m. tomorrow .
(Rocky Mountain News, [Denver, Colorado]...)
Beginning July 4 , there will be an orchestra playing nightly except Sunday and Monday for the summer season .
(The Detroit News...)
The jail sentence is to begin the day after Sarkees graduates from Eastern High_School in June .
(The Atlanta Constitution...)
The COAHR letter comes on the eve of a large gathering of theater managers and owners scheduled to begin here Sunday .
Synonyms begin start Related Terms end terminate erupt break_out bud set_in dawn originate beginning beginning3. begin [ v ] get off the ground
Examples:
"Who started this company?"
"We embarked on an exciting enterprise"
"I start my day with a good breakfast"
"The afternoon session begins at 4 PM"
"The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack"
(Douglas Ashford, "Elections in Morocco: Progress...)
Preparation began slightly more than a year after independence with the first_steps to organize rural communes .
Voting preparations began in the fall of 1959 , although the actual demarcation and planning for the rural communes was completed in 1958 .
Voter registration began in late November 1959 and continued until early January , 1960 .
(Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)
The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities - the rubber factories in Akron , Chrysler 's Detroit plants , U._S._Steel 's Pittsburgh works - often began on these sites at_a_time when that was the edge of the city , yet close to transport ( river ) , storage ( piers ) and power ( river ) .
Synonyms begin start embark_on commence start_up Related Terms initiate open inaugurate start beginning beginning4. begin [ v ] set in motion, cause to start
Examples:
"The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"
"The Iraqis began hostilities"
"begin a new chapter in your life"
(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)
With this act of disobedience , and not with the inception of his individual existence , man began the downward circuit on the spiral of history , descending from the created capacity for immortality to an inescapable mortality .
(Mr. America, 4:6...)
You should also begin this exercise with a very light barbell until you become accustomed to it balance_wise .
(J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)
In an attempt to reverse the downhill trend by stimulating the bone_marrow and controlling any hemolytic component , triamcinolone , 16 mg. daily , was begun on Sept. 26 , 1958 , and continued until Feb. 18 , 1959 .
(Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)
Discovering that draperies could be designed to serve structural purposes , he began a study of the anatomy of folds .
(John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)
I would not want to be one of those writers who begin each morning by exclaiming , `` O Gogol , O Chekhov , O Thackeray and Dickens , what would you have made_of a bomb_shelter ornamented with four plaster-of-Paris ducks , a birdbath , and three composition gnomes with long beards and red mobcaps '' ?
Synonyms start begin commence lead_off Related Terms end end start set_off inaugurate jump-start recommence beginning start beginning founder5. begin [ v ] begin to speak or say
Examples:
"Now listen, friends,"
he began
(Joseph Chadwick, No Land Is Free....)
`` Now , listen '' - Macklin began .
Synonyms begin Related Terms talk6. begin [ v ] begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language
Examples:
"She began Russian at an early age"
"We started French in fourth grade"
7. begin [ v ] begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
Examples:
"begin a cigar"
"She started the soup while it was still hot"
"We started physics in 10th grade"
8. begin [ n ] Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992)
Synonyms menachem_begin begin Related Terms statesman9. begin [ v ] have a beginning, of a temporal event
Examples:
"WWII began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland"
"The company's Asia tour begins next month"
10. begin [ v ] have a beginning characterized in some specified way
Examples:
"The novel begins with a murder"
"My property begins with the three maple trees"
"Her day begins with a work-out"
"The semester begins with a convocation ceremony"
11. begin [ v ] be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series
Examples:
"The number "one"
begins the sequence"
"A terrible murder begin the novel"
"The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester"
12. Begin [ n ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 8329
Synonyms Begin13. begin [ v ] achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative
Examples: : "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"
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