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English
Etymology
From start + -er .
Pronunciation
Noun
starter (plural starters )
Someone who starts , or who starts something.
1982 , Hugh Stephenson, Claret and Chips: The Rise of the SDP , page 158 :The most charitable view taken of them by their colleagues was that, as late starters on the journey away from their Labour past, they had not fully understood that the SDP intended to be something new and not just a Mark II Labour Party [ …]
The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
( baseball ) A starting pitcher .
( golf ) A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
Something that starts something.
An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine .
A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp .
A yeast culture , or a medium containing one, used to start a fermentation process.
Hypernyms: mother , sour mash
Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
It's small, but it's a good starter house.
The first course of a meal , consisting of a small, usually savoury , dish.
Synonyms: entrée , hors d'oeuvre , appetizer
Coordinate terms: main , main course , dessert
( team sports ) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
2024 May 6, Sid Lowe, “Portu’s brilliant burst seals Girona’s top-four fairytale in the perfect way”, in The Guardian , →ISSN :Goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga wasn’t a starter at Fulham.
A dog that rouses game .
( historical , British ) A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
( rail transport ) A railway signal controlling the starting of trains from a station or some other location, more fully called a starter signal or starting signal .
1961 March, “The new Glasgow Central signalbox”, in Trains Illustrated , page 179 :The colour-light signals admitting directly to the platforms and the inner starters (for short-length departures well up the platforms) are two-aspect, while those immediately beyond them are three-aspect, but elsewhere four-aspect signals have been installed in association with route indicators.
Derived terms
Translations
someone who starts something
electric motor that starts an internal-combustion engine
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: стартер (bg) m ( starter )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 起動機 / 起动机 (zh) , 启动机 ( qǐdòngjī ) , 啟動器 / 启动器 (zh) ( qǐdòngqì )
Czech: startér (cs)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: käynnistysmoottori (fi) , starttimoottori (fi) , startti (fi)
French: démarreur (fr) m , starter (fr) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Anlasser (de) m , Starter (de) m
Greek: μίζα (el) f ( míza )
Japanese: スターター ( sutātā )
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: startmotor m , starter (no) m
Nynorsk: startmotor m , startar m
Polish: rozrusznik m
Portuguese: partida (pt) f
Romanian: demaror (ro) n
Russian: ста́ртер (ru) m ( stárter ) , стартёр (ru) m ( startjór )
Spanish: motor de arranque m , estárter m , cebador (es) m ( Argentina )
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: marş motoru
Vietnamese: bộ khởi động động cơ
device that initiates a fluorescent lamp
first course of a meal
Bulgarian: ордьовър m ( ordjovǎr )
Catalan: entrant (ca) m , aperitiu (ca) m
Czech: předkrm (cs)
Danish: forret (da) c
Dutch: voorgerecht (nl) n , voorafje (nl) n
Finnish: alkupala (fi)
French: hors d’œuvre (fr) m , entrée (fr) f
Georgian: წამომწყები ( c̣amomc̣q̇ebi ) , თავი (ka) ( tavi )
German: Vorspeise (de) f , Vorgericht n
Greek: ορεκτικό (el) n ( orektikó )
Italian: antipasto (it) m
Latvian: pirmais ēdiens m
Macedonian: предјадење n ( predjadenje ) , ордевер m ( ordever )
Maori: kumamatanga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forrett m
Nynorsk: forrett m
Persian: اردور (fa) ( ordovr ) , استارتر ( estârter )
Portuguese: entradas (pt) f pl
Russian: пе́рвое блю́до n ( pérvoje bljúdo )
Spanish: entrada (es) f , entrante (es) m
Swedish: förrätt (sv) c , entré (sv) c , entrérätt (sv) c
Turkish: antre (tr)
player that a team fields at the beginning of a game
References
Anagrams
Danish
Noun
starter c (singular definite starteren , plural indefinite startere )
starter
Inflection
Noun
starter c
indefinite plural of start
Verb
starter
present of starte
Dutch
Etymology
From starten + -er .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈstɑr.tər/
Hyphenation: star‧ter
Noun
starter m (plural starters , diminutive startertje n )
starter , one who starts ; in particular
first-time home buyer
start-up
French
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English starter .
Pronunciation
Noun
starter m (plural starters )
starter ( person or device )
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English start .
Pronunciation
Verb
starter
( North America ) Synonym of démarrer
Conjugation
starter
avoir + past participle
startant /staʁ.tɑ̃/
ayant + past participle
starté /staʁ.te/
indicative
je (j’)
tu
il, elle, on
nous
vous
ils, elles
(simple tenses)
present
starte /staʁt/
startes /staʁt/
starte /staʁt/
startons /staʁ.tɔ̃/
startez /staʁ.te/
startent /staʁt/
imperfect
startais /staʁ.tɛ/
startais /staʁ.tɛ/
startait /staʁ.tɛ/
startions /staʁ.tjɔ̃/
startiez /staʁ.tje/
startaient /staʁ.tɛ/
past historic 2
startai /staʁ.te/
startas /staʁ.ta/
starta /staʁ.ta/
startâmes /staʁ.tam/
startâtes /staʁ.tat/
startèrent /staʁ.tɛʁ/
future
starterai /staʁ.tə.ʁe/
starteras /staʁ.tə.ʁa/
startera /staʁ.tə.ʁa/
starterons /staʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
starterez /staʁ.tə.ʁe/
starteront /staʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional
starterais /staʁ.tə.ʁɛ/
starterais /staʁ.tə.ʁɛ/
starterait /staʁ.tə.ʁɛ/
starterions /staʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/
starteriez /staʁ.tə.ʁje/
starteraient /staʁ.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)
present perfect
present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect
imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior 2
past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect
future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect
conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive
que je (j’)
que tu
qu’il, qu’elle
que nous
que vous
qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)
present
starte /staʁt/
startes /staʁt/
starte /staʁt/
startions /staʁ.tjɔ̃/
startiez /staʁ.tje/
startent /staʁt/
imperfect 2
startasse /staʁ.tas/
startasses /staʁ.tas/
startât /staʁ.ta/
startassions /staʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/
startassiez /staʁ.ta.sje/
startassent /staʁ.tas/
(compound tenses)
past
present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect 2
imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative
–
tu
–
nous
vous
–
simple
—
starte /staʁt/
—
startons /staʁ.tɔ̃/
startez /staʁ.te/
—
compound
—
simple imperative of avoir + past participle
—
simple imperative of avoir + past participle
simple imperative of avoir + past participle
—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en .
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
past historic → present perfect
past anterior → pluperfect
imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French , pp. 77 , 78 , 79 , 81 ).
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English starter .
Noun
starter m (invariable )
starter (sports; car engine)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Noun
starter m
indefinite plural of start
Etymology 2
From starte + -er .
Noun
starter m (definite singular starteren , indefinite plural startere , definite plural starterne )
a starter ( person who gives a starting signal )
a starter ( starter motor )
Synonyms
Etymology 3
Verb
starter
present tense of starte
See also
References
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French starter .
Noun
starter n (plural starteri )
starter
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from English starter .
Noun
starter m (Cyrillic spelling стартер )
A device that starts an engine or a machine .
Synonym: anlaser
Swedish
Noun
starter
indefinite plural of start
Anagrams