start

to start a stream of water; to start a rumour; to start a business

Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.

to start the engine

Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start.

The rain started at 9:00.

The speed limit is 50 km/h, starting at the edge of town.

But if he start,

It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.

I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed; …

The hounds started a fox.

Physical poison would make them start from arsenicked bread; shall not the moral poison which is in it, make them start more promptly still from slave produce?

to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel

… we could, with the greateſt eaſe, as well as clearneſs, ſee all objects, (ourſelves unſeen) only by applying our eyes cloſe to the crevice, where the moulding of a pannel had warp'd, or ſtarted a little on the other ſide.

The charge against Zagallo then is not so much that he started Ronaldo, but that when it should surely have been clear that the player was in no fit state to take part he kept him on.

to start a water cask

Have you started yet?