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Starter   /stˈɑrtər/   Listen
Starter

noun
1.
An electric motor for starting an engine.  Synonyms: starter motor, starting motor.
2.
A contestant in a team sport who is in the game at the beginning.
3.
The official who signals the beginning of a race or competition.  Synonym: dispatcher.
4.
Any new participant in some activity.  Synonyms: entrant, fledgeling, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer.
5.
Food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course).  Synonyms: appetiser, appetizer.
6.
A hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle.  Synonym: crank.
7.
A culture containing yeast or bacteria that is used to start the process of fermentation or souring in making butter or cheese or dough.



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"Starter" Quotes from Famous Books



... "is the whole truth about ghost number one. Our business now is to track down number two, and here, as a starter are the missing bonds." ...
— The Four Pools Mystery • Jean Webster
... and political sense of the nation would be slumbering so soundly that no call of honour could awaken it to the realisation of either its duty or its danger. But the horse which all the expert trainers had dismissed as a "non-starter" for the next great race, suddenly gathered his haunches under him, and shot out on the long track to victory. The Army, with the rest of the world, realised that, after all, the heart of the nation was in the right place. Nevertheless, the tremendous wave of patriotism that had ...
— "Contemptible" • "Casualty"
... suddenly there descended on Ashe confidence. He felt cool and alert, sure of himself, as in the old days he had felt when he ran races and, the nerve-racking hours of waiting past, he listened for the starter's gun. Subconsciously he was aware he had always been a little afraid of Joan, and that now he ...
— Something New • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... suffocating gulp, or take it out into the yard, to wrestle with it beneath the open sky. Roughnecks enter eternally with fresh kegs; the thud of the mallet never ceases; the rude clamour of the bung-starter is as the rattle of departing time itself. Huge damsels in dirty aprons—retired kellnerinen, too bulky, even, for that trade of human battleships—go among the tables rescuing empty maesse. Each mass returns to the shelf and begins another circuit of faucet, counter and table. ...
— Europe After 8:15 • H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright
... thought, she was making him question his bringing up of Adelaide. He would not bear that. His foot stole out to the self-starter. ...
— The Happiest Time of Their Lives • Alice Duer Miller


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