Start

See also: start and START

English

A Sega Mega Drive controller, with the Start button in the middle.

Alternative forms

• start

Etymology 1

The verb start, with initial uppercase letter.

Noun

Start (plural Starts)

1. (video games) A typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:Start.

Etymology 2

Topographic surname, from Old English steort (“tail, promontory”).

Proper noun

Start (plural Starts)

1. A surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Start is the 35721^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 629 individuals. Start is most common among White (94.59%) individuals.

Etymology 3

Proper noun

the Start

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) The city of London, England.
   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:

     It is true that certain kinds of documents, especially sham hawkers’ licenses, may be had in the provinces, at prices suited to the importance of their contents, or to the probable gains of their circulation; but all the ‘regular bang-up fakes’ are manufactured in the ‘Start’ (metropolis), and sent into the country to order, carefully packed up, and free from observation.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Start”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• Strat, trats, tarts, strat, Tarts

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English start.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃtaʁt/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ʃtaːt/ (common; especially northern and central Germany)

• Audio (Austria):

  (file)

• Homophone: Staat (nonstandard)

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Noun

Start m (strong, genitive Startes or Starts, plural Starts or Starte)

1. start (beginning of a project)
2. start (beginning point of a race)
3. takeoff, liftoff (beginning of a flight)
   • 1983, Peter Schilling, “Major Tom (Völlig losgelöst)”, in Error in the System:

     Gründlich durchgecheckt steht sie da
     Und wartet auf den Start, alles klar

     Thoroughly checked, [the rocket] stands there
     And waits for the liftoff, all clear

Hyponyms

• Fehlstart
• Raketenstart
• Semesterstart

Derived terms

• starten

Related terms

• am Start sein
• startbereit
• Starthilfe
• Startkapital
• Startknopf
• Startlauf
• Startrampe
• Startschuss
• Startseite

Further reading

• “Start”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Start” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Start” in Duden online