Definition of Start out

1. Verb. Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action. "They start out moving "; "Let's get down to work now"


2. Verb. Leave. "These cars won't start out "; "The family took off for Florida"

Definition of Start out

1. Verb. to begin one's life, or occupation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Start Out

starships
starspot
starspots
starstone
starstones
starstruck
starstuff
start
start-off
start-up
start-ups
start codon
start codons
start off
start off on the wrong foot
start out (current term)
start over
start the ball rolling
start up
startable
startbox
startboxes
started
started up
starter
starter dough
starter doughs
starter marriage
starter marriages
starter motor

Literary usage of Start out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"Then into life start out The scenes lung vanished Then we behold again The forms that have long lain Among the dead. We seek their grasp of love, ..."

2. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"start out 1. Start) for a ride, go out riding; ... set d. start) out on a trip (1. an expedition): ..."

3. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"start out 1. start) for a ride, go out riding; — retkelle set П. start) out on a trip (1. ... [vuorille] start to (1. start out for) the woods [the hills]; ..."

4. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"... matkaan set Off, set out, Start (out): — matkaansa (menna) go away, ... Start) for a ride, go out riding; — retkelle set (1. start) out on a trip (1. an ..."

5. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"The branded beast would start out early in the morning and take a slow, easy lope and keep it up all day over all kinds of roads and where there were no ..."

6. The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl by Dorothy Richardson (1905)
"... II IN WHICH I start out IN QUEST OF WORK WHEN I woke up the next morning it was to find a weight of homesickness lying heavy upon my heart—homesickness ..."

7. The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson (1905)
"... II IN WHICH I start out IN QUEST OF WORK WHEN I woke up the next morning it was to find a weight of homesickness lying heavy upon my heart—homesickness ..."

8. The Aerial Age: A Thousand Miles by Airship Over the Atlantic Ocean; Airship by Walter Wellman (1911)
"... XXXV THE start out OF THE BALLOON HOUSE It was at 8 o'clock Saturday morning, October 15, 1910, that the airship America, with a crew of six men aboard, ..."

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