starter
See also: Starter
English
Pronunciation
Noun
starter (plural starters)
- Someone who starts something.
- a starter on a journey
- The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag
- (baseball) A starting pitcher.
- Something that starts something.
- It's small, but it's a good starter house.
- An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine
- A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp
- A yeast culture used to start a fermentation process
- The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
- (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
- A dog that rouses game.
- (historical, Britain) A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
Synonyms
- (first course of a meal) hors d’oeuvre
Translations
person who starts a race
starting pitcher — see starting pitcher
something that starts
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electric motor that starts an internal-combustion engine
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first course of a meal
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player that a team fields at the beginning of a game
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dog that rouses game
Danish
Inflection
Declension of starter
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | starter | starteren | startere | starterne |
genitive | starters | starterens | starteres | starternes |
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstɑr.tər/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: star‧ter
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /staʁ.tœʁ/
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /staʁ.te/
Conjugation
Conjugation of starter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle | startant /staʁ.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
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past participle | starté /staʁ.te/ | ||||||
infinitive | |||||||
simple | starter | ||||||
compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
gerund1 | |||||||
simple | startant /staʁ.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | 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 | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | starte /staʁt/ |
— | startons /staʁ.tɔ̃/ |
startez /staʁ.te/ |
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compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Italian
Norwegian Bokmål
Synonyms
See also
- startar (Nynorsk)
Serbo-Croatian
Swedish
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