"starting" meaning in English

See starting in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈstɑɹtɪŋ/ [General-American], [ˈstɑɹt.ɪŋ] [General-American], [ˈstɑɹɾɪŋ] [General-American], /ˈstɑːtɪŋ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-starting.ogg [US] Forms: startings [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun}} starting (plural startings)
  1. The act of something that starts.
    Sense id: en-starting-en-noun-ExgQzdf7

Verb

IPA: /ˈstɑɹtɪŋ/ [General-American], [ˈstɑɹt.ɪŋ] [General-American], [ˈstɑɹɾɪŋ] [General-American], /ˈstɑːtɪŋ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-starting.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} starting
  1. present participle and gerund of start Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: start
    Sense id: en-starting-en-verb-yHumyi2T Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 96 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 5 95 Derived forms: nonstarting, self-starting, startingly, starting bar, starting berth, starting block, starting five, starting fluid, starting gate, starting grid, starting gun, starting handle, starting hole, starting pistol, starting pitcher, starting point, starting price, starting signal

Inflected forms

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Download JSON data for starting meaning in English (3.0kB)

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