Synonyms of the word

beginning

• n. (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space…
• n. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
• n. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
• n. The initial portion of some extended thing.
• v. present participle of begin.
• adj. (informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.

commencement

• n. The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
• n. The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
• n. A graduation ceremony, from a school, college or university.

division

• n. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
• n. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
• n. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
• n. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
• n. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
• n. A section of a large company.
• n. (taxonomy) A rank (Latin divisio) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi,…
• n. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
• n. (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived…
• n. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
• n. (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of…
• n. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
• n. (Britain, Eton College) A lesson; a class.

first

• adj. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
• adj. Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
• adv. Before anything else; firstly.
• n. (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
• n. (uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
• n. (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
• n. (countable, baseball) first base.
• n. (countable, Britain, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
• n. (countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
• n. A fraction of an integer ending in one.
• n. (obsolete) Time; time granted; respite.

get-go

• n. (colloquial) The beginning.

happening

• v. present participle of happen.
• adj. (slang, of a place) Busy, lively; vibrant, dynamic; fashionable.
• adj. (slang, of a person or product) Trendy, up-to-the-minute.
• n. Something that happens.
• n. A spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation.

kickoff

• n. Alternative spelling of kick-off.

occurrence

• n. Actual instance when a situation arises.

occurrent

• adj. Current, actual, occurring.
• n. (now chiefly philosophy) An event, something that occurs.

offset

• n. Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
• n. (international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within…
• n. (obsolete, c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
• n. A printing method, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the…
• n. (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
• n. (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base…
• n. The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
• n. (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular…
• n. An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly…
• n. (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
• n. A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
• n. (architecture) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by…
• v. To compensate for something.
• v. To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).

opening

• v. present participle of open.
• n. An act or instance of making or becoming open.
• n. Something that is open.
• n. An act or instance of beginning.
• n. Something that is a beginning.
• n. A vacant position, especially in an array.
• n. An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
• adj. (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing…

origin

• n. The beginning of something.
• n. The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
• n. (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
• n. (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of…
• n. (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
• n. (in the plural) Ancestry.

outset

• n. the beginning or initial stage of something.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

point

• n. A discrete division of something.
• n. A sharp extremity.
• n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
• n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
• n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
• n. Lace worked by the needle.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
• n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
• n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
• n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
• n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
• n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
• v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
• v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
• v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
• v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
• v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
• v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
• v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
• v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
• v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
• v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
• v. (obsolete) To appoint.
• v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

root

• n. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores…
• n. A root vegetable.
• n. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
• n. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
• n. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
• n. The primary source; origin.
• n. (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified…
• n. (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often…
• n. (analysis) A zero (of an equation).
• n. (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
• n. (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects…
• n. (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
• n. (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
• n. The lowest place, position, or part.
• n. (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and…
• n. (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
• n. (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
• v. (computing, slang, transitive) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.
• v. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
• v. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
• v. (transitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
• v. (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
• v. (intransitive) To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil.
• v. (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
• v. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse.
• v. (horticulture, intransitive) To grow roots.
• v. (horticulture, transitive) To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
• v. (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of…

section

• n. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
• n. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
• n. A part of a document.
• n. An act or instance of cutting.
• n. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
• n. (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
• n. (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
• n. (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
• n. (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
• n. (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
• n. (category theory) A right inverse.
• n. (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
• n. (Canada) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
• n. (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
• v. To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
• v. (Britain) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons…
• v. To perform a cesarean section on (someone).

showtime

• n. The time at which an entertainment event is set to begin.
• n. (figuratively) The time for action.
• interj. A declaration that something is about to happen, particularly that the person speaking is about to act.

source

• n. The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
• n. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which…
• n. A reporter's informant.
• n. (computing) Source code.
• n. (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
• v. (chiefly US) To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
• v. (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation…

start

• n. The beginning of an activity.
• n. A sudden involuntary movement.
• n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
• n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.
• n. A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
• v. (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
• v. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
• v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
• v. (transitive, sports) To put into play.
• v. (nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
• v. (euphemistic) To start your periods (menstruation).
• n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
• n. A handle, especially that of a plough.
• n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
• n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.