What is the meaning of STARTIN. Phrases containing STARTIN
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Person just starting to use drugs
Peddler who sells magazines, candy, fruit, 'etc., in trains. Usually employed nowadays by Union News Co. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, was a news butcher in his youth and became deaf when a conductor boxed his ears for accidentally starting a fire while experimenting in a baggage car near Smith Creek, Mich.
Contributor defines this as "when downhill skiing u fall really hard and your skiis, poles and goggle fall off and go everywhere. Starting to be used for lots of sports." In use, for example, you get "Dude, i just saw some poser take a mad yardsale on the double black diamond, I bet he's at the hospital right now."
To be caught starting a fire. Usually an illegal fire on someone elses things.
The process of starting a large diesel engine using compressed air to turn the engine over.
, (SCHMA-bin) v. pres. participle, Driving fast, burning tire rubber when starting out. Also: driving around in the car with a group of friends, playing the radio loud, shouting out. “Yeah, we were straight schmabbin’ last night.â€Â [Etym., 90’s youth culture]
A type of nail are where thin stripes are painted starting at the base of the nail and fad out toward (but not at) the tips of the nails to create the resemblance of a waterfall. (Example)
Starting time (probably from old Negro spiritual "Rise and Shine")
Umbrella. Wonderful - it's starting to rain and me without my Auntie Ella.
Short for 'starting a fight' or initiating a violent confrontation. As in 'Are ye start'n on uz like eh?' People in the south of England were more likely to say 'You wanna go?'.
person just starting to use drugs
, (RAP-star) n., A man who doesn’t have a main girlfriend, who talks to many different young women. See also playa. Also: Rapstar status. “He is starting to act like a rapstar all the time.â€Â [Etym., African American]
To initiate that one is successfully in starting a sexual activity, by hissing caressing hugging, etc. [ I do not know why he is saying that he made it with me, when he could not get to first base.]
Starting the ship's boilers.
between sunset and dusk, starting to get dark
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n.
A darting away; a starting off or aside.
n.
A setting out, starting, or beginning.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Start
adv.
By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.
n.
A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel.
n.
An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like.
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To keep back or behind; to prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; -- often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going.
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A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger.
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A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.
superl.
Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high.
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A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre.
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The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion.
superl.
Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now commencing; different from has been; as, a new year; a new course or direction.
adv.
By or in a circuit; by a course longer than the direct course; back to the starting point.
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Materials, easily lighted, for starting a fire.
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A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.
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Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump in cricket; the outer world.
n.
A starting, twitching, or convulsive motion.
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The act of one who, or that which, sails; the motion of a vessel on water, impelled by wind or steam; the act of starting on a voyage.
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