"outset" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈaʊtsɛt/ Audio: en-us-outset.ogg [US] Forms: outsets [plural]
Etymology: From out- + set, replacing earlier outsetting. Etymology templates: {{pre|en|out|set#Verb}} out- + set, {{m|en|outsetting}} outsetting Head templates: {{en-noun}} outset (plural outsets)
  1. Onset; the beginning or initial stage of something. Translations (initial stage of something): начало (načalo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), inici [masculine] (Catalan), començament [masculine] (Catalan), 開始 (Chinese Mandarin), 开始 (kāishǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), počátek [masculine] (Czech), začátek [masculine] (Czech), début [masculine] (French), დასაწყისი (dasac̣q̇isi) (Georgian), Anfang [masculine] (German), Beginn [masculine] (German), kezdet (Hungarian), indulás (Hungarian), eleje (Hungarian), inizio [masculine] (Italian), principio [masculine] (Italian), Aunfank [masculine] (Plautdietsch), początek [masculine] (Polish), início [masculine] (Portuguese), нача́ло (načálo) [neuter] (Russian), dol a-mach [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), začetak [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), inicio [masculine] (Spanish), baş (Turkish), başlangıç (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-outset-en-noun-8cWcBb~9 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ˈaʊtsɛt/ Audio: en-us-outset.ogg [US] Forms: outsets [present, singular, third-person], outsetting [participle, present], outset [participle, past], outset [past]
Etymology: From out- + set. Etymology templates: {{pre|en|out|set}} out- + set Head templates: {{en-verb|outsets|outsetting|outset}} outset (third-person singular simple present outsets, present participle outsetting, simple past and past participle outset)
  1. (Internet, CSS, transitive) To cause (a design element) to extend around the outside of something else, the opposite of being inset. Tags: Internet, transitive Categories (topical): Internet
    Sense id: en-outset-en-verb-pu627H~4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms prefixed with out- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 72 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 12 88 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with out-: 36 64 Topics: CSS
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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