START OUT
Dictionary entry overview: What does start out mean?
• START OUT (verb)
The verb START OUT has 2 senses:
1. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
2. leave
Familiarity information: START OUT used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• START OUT (verb)
Meaning:
Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
begin; commence; set out; start; start out; set about; get down; get
Context examples:
We began working at dawn / Who will start? / Get working as soon as the sun rises! / The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia / He began early in the day / Let's get down to work now
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "start out"):
recommence (begin again)
bestir oneself; get cracking; get going; get moving; get rolling; get started; get weaving (start to be active)
embark; enter (set out on (an enterprise or subject of study))
come on (occur or become available)
launch; plunge (begin with vigor)
break in (start in a certain activity, enterprise, or role)
attack (set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task)
auspicate (commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck)
get to (arrive at the point of)
jump off (set off quickly, usually with success)
fall (begin vigorously)
strike out (set out on a course of action)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
Meaning:
Leave
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
take off; set forth; set off; start out; part; set out; start; depart
Context example:
The family took off for Florida
Hypernyms (to "start out" is one way to...):
go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "start out"):
lift off; take off (depart from the ground)
roar off (leave)
blaze; blaze out (move rapidly and as if blazing)
sally forth; sally out (set out in a sudden, energetic or violent manner)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
The children start out to the playground
