Definition of beggining
1. beginning [ n ] the event consisting of the start of something
Examples: : "the beginning of the war"
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)
The '49 team was off to a so-so 5 - 5 beginning , then fell as low as 12 - 17 on May 23 before finishing with 96 victories .
(The Providence Journal...)
It is into this household , one eroded by irritations that have tortured the souls out of its people , that George_Dillon enters at the beginning of the play .
(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)
As Origen interprets the end of history on the basis of its beginning , so Irenaeus portrays the story of Adam on the basis of the story of Christ .
His interpretation of the beginning on the basis of the end prompts him to draw these parallels between the Virgin Eve and the Virgin Mary .
(Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)
These are beginnings , but correctly learned they prepare for satisfying and exciting stunts that can be performed by a strong , flexible body ( we are not talking of eccentric extremes ) .
Synonyms beginning Related Terms ending happening start generation origin creation emergence emergence ground_floor casus_belli begin2. beginning [ n ] the time at which something is supposed to begin
Examples:
"they got an early start"
"she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"
(Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)
To say this , of_course , is to take_up a position on one side of a controversy going_on now for some two hundred years , or , at_any_rate , since the beginning of the distinctively modern period in theological thought .
(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)
From this earth , then , while it was still virgin God took dust and fashioned the man , the beginning of humanity '' .
(High Fidelity, 11:10...)
From the beginning of commercial recording , new discs purported to be indistinguishable from The Real_Thing have regularly been put in circulation .
(Douglas Ashford, "Elections in Morocco: Progress...)
From the very beginning the electoral discussions raised fundamental issues in Moroccan politics , precisely the type of questions that were most difficult to resolve in the new government .
Synonyms beginning start outset first kickoff get-go showtime offset starting_time commencement Related Terms end middle point threshold birth incipiency terminus_a_quo begin begin originate inaugurate3. beginning [ n ] the first part or section of something
Examples: : "`It was a dark and stormy night'
is a hackneyed beginning for a story"
(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)
In a series of fairy_tales and fantasies , Melies demonstrated that the film is superbly equipped to tell a straightforward story , with beginning , middle and end , complications , resolutions , climaxes , and conclusions .
Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative , which is , at its simplest , the story of an action with , usually , a beginning , a middle , and an end - elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence .
(Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)
The innocence that they tried to conceal at the beginning is clearly destroyed forever when one of them , asking for a piece of lemon-meringue_pie , gets a plate of English_muffins instead .
Synonyms beginning Related Terms end middle part begin4. beginning [ a ] at a first stage of development; just becoming familiar with the rudiments or skills or routines
Examples:
"a beginning bodybuilder"
"a beginning reader"
"a novice cook"
(Mr. America, 4:6...)
Too often a beginning bodybuilder has to do his training secretly either because his parents do n't want sonny-boy to `` lift all those old barbell things '' because `` you 'll stunt your growth '' or because childish taunts from his schoolmates , like `` Hey , lookit Mr._America , whaddya gonna do with all those muscles ( of which he has none at the time ) '' ?
Synonyms beginning novice Related Terms early5. beginning [ n ] the place where something begins, where it springs into being
Examples:
"the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"
"Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"
"Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"
"communism's Russian root"
(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)
The physical film is cut with a knife at the end of one complete sequence , and the cut edge is joined physically , by cement , to the cut edge of the beginning of the next sequence .
Synonyms source origin beginning root rootage Related Terms point home headwaters derivation fountainhead birthplace spring trail_head point_source jumping-off_place wellhead root6. beginning [ n ] the act of starting something
Examples:
"he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations"
(Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)
In each of the last , the trial marked the beginning of a new course : in Moscow the liquidation of the Old Bolsheviks and the tightening of Stalin 's dictatorship ; in the United_States the initiation of militant anti Communism , with the repentant ex Communist in the vanguard .
Synonyms beginning start commencement Related Terms finish change_of_state constitution first_step debut installation kickoff initiation Creation inauguration resumption attack startup icebreaker housing_start face-off jumping-off_point jump_ball attack groundbreaking scrum accession occupation activation begin begin begin start originate start start begin begin7. beginning [ a ] of elementary education
Examples:
"a basal reader"
"children in the beginning reading classes"
"the primary grades"
(Jesse W. Grimes and Wesley Allinsmith, "Compuls...)
While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured , we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word_method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives .
The fact that such threat is potent in the beginning reading lessons is thought to be a vital factor in the continued pattern of failure or under-achievement these children exhibit .
Synonyms basal basic beginning primary abecedarian Related Terms elementary8. beginning [ a ] serving to begin
Examples:
"the beginning canto of the poem"
"the first verse"
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