"start out" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "starts out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "starting out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "started out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "started out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "_dis": "63 21 15",
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      "glosses": [
        "To emerge suddenly; to jump out."
      ],
      "id": "en-start_out-en-verb-avcZRWfK",
      "links": [
        [
          "emerge",
          "emerge"
        ],
        [
          "suddenly",
          "suddenly"
        ],
        [
          "jump out",
          "jump out"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 102",
          "text": "I do not find that any particulars of this day's conversation start out. But it was in general most agreeable."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be or become conspicuous; to stand out."
      ],
      "id": "en-start_out-en-verb-9smyx5Hc",
      "links": [
        [
          "conspicuous",
          "conspicuous"
        ],
        [
          "stand out",
          "stand out"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He started out writing for the school magazine, and now he's a TV talk show celebrity.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 March 20, Greg Morse, “XP64: the train the ^([sic]): [that] launched a new style”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 45:",
          "text": "It would also form part of a new carriage design, which had started out on Swindon drawing office easels two years earlier.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To begin."
      ],
      "id": "en-start_out-en-verb-hjbS4o23",
      "links": [
        [
          "begin",
          "begin"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "start out"
}

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    "English raising verbs",
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    "Pages with entries"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "starts out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "starting out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "started out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "started out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To emerge suddenly; to jump out."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "emerge",
          "emerge"
        ],
        [
          "suddenly",
          "suddenly"
        ],
        [
          "jump out",
          "jump out"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 102",
          "text": "I do not find that any particulars of this day's conversation start out. But it was in general most agreeable."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be or become conspicuous; to stand out."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "conspicuous",
          "conspicuous"
        ],
        [
          "stand out",
          "stand out"
        ]
      ]
    },
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        {
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 March 20, Greg Morse, “XP64: the train the ^([sic]): [that] launched a new style”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 45:",
          "text": "It would also form part of a new carriage design, which had started out on Swindon drawing office easels two years earlier.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To begin."
      ],
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        [
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    }
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  "word": "start out"
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