Synonyms of the word

inaugurate

• v. (transitive) To induct into office with a formal ceremony.
• v. (transitive) To dedicate ceremoniously; to initiate something in a formal manner.
• adj. Invested with office; inaugurated.

begin

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
• v. (intransitive) To be in the first stage of some situation.
• v. (intransitive) To come into existence.
• n. (nonstandard) Beginning; start.

commence

• v. (intransitive) To begin, start.
• v. (transitive) To begin to be, or to act as.
• v. (Britain, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.

introduce

• v. (transitive, of people) To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
• v. (transitive) To make (something or someone) known by formal announcement or recommendation.
• v. (transitive) To add (something) to a system, a mixture, or a container.
• v. (transitive) To bring (something) into practice.

open

• adj. (not comparable) not closed; accessible; unimpeded.
• adj. Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
• adj. (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
• adj. (comparable) Receptive.
• adj. (not comparable) Public.
• adj. (not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable.
• adj. (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.
• adj. (computing, not comparable, of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory.
• adj. (business) Not fulfilled.
• adj. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
• adj. (music, stringed instruments) Without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard.
• adj. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty…
• adj. (phonetics) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
• adj. (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
• adj. (phonetics, of a syllable) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
• adj. (computing) Made public, usable with a free licence.
• adj. (medicine) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects…
• v. (transitive) To make something accessible or remove an obstacle to its being accessible.
• v. (transitive) To bring up (a topic).
• v. (transitive) To make accessible to customers or clients.
• v. (transitive) To start (a campaign).
• v. (intransitive) To become open.
• v. (intransitive) To begin conducting business.
• v. To enter upon; to begin.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
• v. (intransitive, poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
• v. (computing, transitive, intransitive, of a file, document, etc.) To load into memory for viewing or editing.
• v. To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
• v. (obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
• n. A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
• n. (electronics) a wire that is broken midway.
• n. (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
• n. (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.

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.