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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"
Specialized synonyms: Recommence, Strike Out, Fall, Jump Off, Get To, Auspicate, Attack, Break In, Launch, Plunge, Come On, Embark, Enter, Bestir Oneself, Get Cracking, Get Going, Get Moving, Get Rolling, Get Started, Get Weaving
Related verbs: Begin
Derivative terms: Beginner, Beginning, Commencement, Start, Start, Start, Starter
Antonyms: End
2. Verb. Leave. "These cars won't start out "; "The family took off for Florida"
Generic synonyms: Go Away, Go Forth, Leave
Specialized synonyms: Lift Off, Take Off, Roar Off, Blaze, Blaze Out, Sally Forth, Sally Out
Derivative terms: Departer, Departure, Departure, Parting, Takeoff, Takeoff
Also: Part With
Definition of Start out
1. Verb. to begin one's life, or occupation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Start Out
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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